This edition of our daily tracking release features findings from a national online survey of 1,011 registered voters conducted May 15-May 18, 2020. • Trump’s approval on his handling of the pandemic has hit yet another low in our tracking.• Americans trust Dr. Fauci and Democrats more than Trump on […] Read more »
Poll Reveals COVID-19’s Impacts on African American Communities
Today, NAACP, in partnership with the African American Research Collaborative (AARC) and the Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC) at Yale School of Medicine presented new polling detailing the impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic on African American communities. The poll is the first of its kind, with a deep dive […] Read more »
America’s response to the coronavirus is the most American thing ever
The US response to coronavirus has been consistently inconsistent. It’s also uniquely American. There are no national guidelines and no organized efforts to reopen the country beyond what measures states have taken. Public health officials say one thing while governors say another and President Donald Trump says something else entirely. […] Read more »
What’s driving the shutdown protests? It’s not economic pain.
For weeks, President Trump has insisted that the economy must reopen, hailing the states choosing to relax coronavirus restrictions “safely and quickly” and arguing that the United States is defeating the pandemic. Around the country, protesters are showing up — sometimes armed — at state capitols or around local businesses […] Read more »
Why GOP can’t reopen the economy without Democratic buy-in
From President Donald Trump through Republican governors and state legislatures, the GOP is coalescing around a position of reopening the economy as quickly as possible despite concerns about seeding a wider spread of the coronavirus. … The daunting equation facing Trump and Republican governors is that no matter how many […] Read more »
National Mood Shows Little Improvement in May
As the coronavirus continues to disrupt and distort ordinary life — everything from the way people work, shop and attend school, to the way they vote and interact with loved ones — Americans’ satisfaction with the direction of the country remains subdued. Just under a third of Americans, 32%, now […] Read more »