… Over the weekend, The Post and our partners at ABC News released a new poll conducted after the Trump-Putin summit. “At a news conference with Putin, Trump expressed doubts about U.S. intelligence conclusions that the Russian government tried to influence the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election,” the […] Read more »
Americans give Trump negative marks for Helsinki performance
… The Post-ABC poll conducted Wednesday through Friday finds that overall, 33 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of his meeting with Putin while 50 percent disapprove. A sizable 18 percent say they have no opinion. A slightly larger 56 percent disapprove of Trump expressing doubts about U.S. intelligence […] Read more »
NBC/WSJ poll: Public gives Trump thumbs down on Russia, thumbs up on economy
After an eventful and tumultuous month in American politics, majorities of American voters disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of Russia and immigration at the border, while half approve of his job on the economy, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Trump’s overall job-approval rating in […] Read more »
Little public support for Trump in doubting Russian interference
A majority of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump casting doubt about U.S. intelligence on Russian interference in the 2016 election, with relatively modest support for the president even in his own party and among conservatives in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll. The public by a 17-point margin also says […] Read more »
The Least Analytical 2016 Voters: Democrats Who Supported Trump
… A study that examined voters’ styles of thinking finds that, as expected, Democrats are somewhat more analytically oriented than Republicans. This supports the idea that conservatism is something of a default setting, and rejecting it requires intellectual reasoning. However, the biggest difference in cognitive approaches was between two subsets […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Trump not tough enough on Russia, approval of Mueller down
Voters think President Trump has been too soft on Russia, yet a majority approves of his July 16 meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a new Fox News Poll. Meantime, approval of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation has dropped below 50 percent. … Even so, Americans want Mueller […] Read more »