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 »
49 of 50 governors have better coronavirus poll numbers than Trump
… New polling data from SurveyMonkey, which were shared with The Washington Post, show that fully 49 of 50 governors have significantly higher approval ratings for their coronavirus responses than Trump does in recent polls. … The data show Democratic governors with an average coronavirus approval rating of 69 percent, […] 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 »