Gallup’s <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/695762/trust-media-new-low.aspx">latest survey</a> on Americans’ trust in the mass media paints a stark picture: confidence in newspapers, television, and radio has hit a historic low.
Only 28% of U.S. adults now say they have a “great deal” or a “fair amount” of trust that news outlets report fully, accurately, and fairly. That’s down from 31% last year and a steep fall from 40% just five years ago. In contrast, roughly seven in ten adults express little to no confidence, with 36% saying “not very much” and 34% saying “none at all.” This is the first time Gallup has recorded trust dipping below 30% since it began tracking the metric in the 1970s, when roughly 70% of Americans expressed confidence in the news.
The decline is pervasive across political affiliations. Republicans’ confidence, already weak, has plunged to single digits for the first time, with only 8% expressing trust. Independents remain skeptical at 27%, matching last year’s record low. Even Democrats, historically the most trusting, register a narrow majority of 51%, echoing lows last seen in 2016. Generational divisions further underscore the crisis: adults 65 and older retain relatively higher trust at 43%, while younger Americans across all party lines rarely exceed 28%.
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These survey results come amid repeated high-profile media failures. The New York Times’ <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-was-pressed-to-hedge-on-gaza-hospital-story-but-senior-editors-ignored-warnings-report?utm_source=chatgpt.com">false Gaza hospital story</a> in 2023, which relied solely on a Palestinian source, highlighted a pattern of insufficient verification. Similarly, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-times-ignored-examples-of-kamalas-plagiarism-withheld-them-from-cited-expert?utm_source=chatgpt.com">reporting</a> on Vice President Kamala Harris’ alleged plagiarism was criticized for deliberately underrepresenting the scope of the issue, contrasting sharply with how the Times covered similar Republican controversies.
In October, President Donald Trump filed a $15 billion defamation suit against The New York Times. In the <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.447437/gov.uscourts.flmd.447437.9.0.pdf">suit</a>, Trump accused the Times of printing false and defamatory statements about his business career that damaged his professional reputation.
The Media Research Center’s October 2025 <a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/bill-dagostino/2025/11/05/study-tv-news-spends-shutdown-playing-defense-democrats">analysis</a> of network coverage during the government shutdown adds another layer: ABC, CBS, and NBC reportedly framed Democrats favorably while heavily criticizing Republicans, with 87% of coverage skewed toward Democratic talking points and only twelve instances of criticism directed at Democrats.

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Gallup: Trust In The Media Crashes To Historic Low

Gallup: Americans’ Trust In The Media Crashes To Historic Low

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Support among Republicans for gay marriage has plummeted in the last three years, according to a new <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/691139/record-party-divide-years-sex-marriage-ruling.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gallup poll</a>.
Gallup’s poll released on Thursday found 41% of GOP voters support gay marriage, as opposed to 55% in 2021 and 2022. A whopping 88% of Democrats approved of gay marriage in the new poll; the 47-point gap between the two parties is the largest since Gallup first asked the question in 1996. Seventy-six percent of independents approve of gay marriage. In 1996, 16% of Republicans approved; 33% of Democrats and 32% of independents agreed.
86% of Democrats said gay or lesbian relations are morally acceptable; 38% of Republicans agreed, a drop from 2022, when 56% of Republicans agreed. Among those who attend religious services at least once a week, 33% said same-sex marriage was morally acceptable and 24% said gay-lesbian relations were socially acceptable. Gallup polling between 2020-2023 <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/507692/church-attendance-lower-pre-pandemic.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> that more Republicans attended weekly religious services than Democrats by 15 percentage points.
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Thomas explained that the three cases relied on substantive due process, which he called “an oxymoron that lack[s] any basis in the Constitution.”
Courts have used substantive due process to protect unenumerated rights not mentioned in the Constitution. The right to privacy and the right to gay marriage have been recognized under substantive due process.  
“On the Due Process Clause, Justice Thomas has long argued (consistent with much academic commentary) that insofar as the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates enumerated rights against the states and protects unenumerated rights, this work is done by the Privileges [and] Immunities Clause, and not the Due Process Clause,” Reason <a href="https://reason.com/volokh/2022/06/26/on-justice-thomas-dobbs-precedent-and-substantive-due-process/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.
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“In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell,” Thomas wrote. “Because any substantive due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous,’ we have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents, After overruling these demonstrably erroneous decisions, the question would remain whether other constitutional provisions guarantee the myriad rights that our substantive due process cases have generated.”
“Substantive due process exalts judges at the expense of the People from whom they derive their authority,&#8221; he wrote, “Substantive due process distorts other areas of constitutional law. &#8230; Substantive due process is the core inspiration for many of the Court’s constitutionally unmoored policy judgments. &#8230; The harm caused by this Court’s forays into substantive due process remains immeasurable.”

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A new poll has found that trust in mass <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">media</a> is at a new low, continuing a steady decline in Americans’ opinion about the fourth estate since 2016, when it started dropping dramatically.
The latest <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/651977/americans-trust-media-remains-trend-low.aspx">Gallup poll</a> &#8212; conducted between September 3-15 &#8212; found that Americans&#8217; trust in the media and Congress is very low, while their trust in local and state government remains higher.
Respondents were asked, “How much trust and confidence do you have in the mass media &#8212; such as newspapers, TV and radio &#8212; when it comes to reporting the news fully, accurately and fairly?” Only 31% of Americans have “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of trust. That is down one percent from the 32% who felt that way just one year ago.
Another 33% said they didn’t have “very much” confidence when it comes to the mass media to report the news “accurately.” Another 36% said they had no trust at all in the media, which was exactly the same way Americans felt a year ago when asked the same question.
The organization has been charting public opinion when it comes to Americans’ trust in mass media since 1972, when trust in news outlets was at an all-time high. In 1972, 70% had a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence that the news they were getting was accurate, while only 6% had no trust at all.
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When it comes to party affiliation, Republicans over time have consistently not trusted what was coming out of news organizations, with only 12% of Republicans currently saying they have a “great deal” or “fair amount of trust” in the media.
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Independents currently said they trusted the media by 27% when asked the same question. However, Democrats have 54% confidence that what they are getting from the news is accurate.
Across the board, though, trust in media is the lowest it&#8217;s been since Gallup started asking the question in 1972. However, the largest drop is among self-identified Republicans, falling from 68% who trusted the media in 1972 to the shocking 12% who feel that way now.
Not far behind Americans’ distrust in mass media is how they feel about the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, with only 34% who have a “great deal” or &#8220;fair amount&#8221; of trust in them.
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Trust In Mass Media Is At A New Low: Poll

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A new <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/651092/2024-election-environment-favorable-gop.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gallup poll</a> states that a number of issues favor Republicans in the 2024 election, chief among them the fact that more Americans identify as Republicans than Democrats.
In an average of Gallup polls taken between July and September, 48% of voters surveyed either identified as Republicans or leaned Republican, while 45% of the voters identified as Democrats or leaned Democrat. 46% of voters thought that the GOP was better able to handle the most important problem facing the country, as opposed to 41% who chose the Democrats. Gallup listed the issues that voters thought were most important as the economy and immigration.
50% of voters deemed the GOP better equipped to keep America prosperous, while 46% thought the Democrats would do the job better. A whopping difference came between the 54% of voters who thought the GOP was better able to keep America safe from international threats and the 40% who chose the Democrats.
Other indications favoring the GOP could be derived from voter disaffection with Democrats and the Biden-Harris administration. Only 22% of voters said they were currently satisfied with the state of affairs; only 39% expressed approval of the job President Biden and his administration have done, and the economic index had a -28 score.
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The economic index rating is “derived from the 22% of Americans describing current economic conditions as ‘excellent’ or ‘good’ versus the 48% saying they are ‘poor,’ and the 32% believing the economy is ‘getting better’ versus the 62% saying it is ‘getting worse,’” Gallup pointed out.
Democrats have led in party affiliation since the age of Ronald Reagan except for 2004, a Gallup graph showed. Gallup stated, “Republicans previously have not had an outright advantage in party affiliation during the third quarter of a presidential election year. Gallup noted, “Democrats have won presidential elections in years in which they had larger-than-normal advantages in party affiliation, including 1992, 1996, 2008, 2012 and 2020. In years when the advantage was narrower &#8212; 2004 and 2016, for example &#8212; Republicans won in the electoral college if not also the popular vote.”

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A majority of Americans want to curtail immigration into the United States for the first time since 2005, according to a new poll from Gallup.
The <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/647123/sharply-americans-curb-immigration.aspx">survey found</a> that 55% of American adults want fewer immigrants to come to the country, while 41% said that they want immigration to remain at its present levels or would like to allow even more migrants to relocate here. This is the largest percentage of Americans who want immigration cut since 2001, when 58% favored fewer noncitizens.
While 25% of those polled said they want immigration to remain at its current level, 16% said they would like more immigrants to come to the U.S. The figure marks a drastic drop from May 2020, when 34% of respondents said that immigration should be increased.
Gallup also found that all three political affiliations &#8211; Republicans, Democrats, and independents &#8211; are more likely to support less immigration than last year. While 73% of Republicans said they wanted immigration to decrease in 2023, the figure now stands at an overwhelming 88%.
The share of independents who want immigration to be cut rose significantly from 2023 to 2024, starting at 39% last year before spiking to 50% in 2024. Just 18% of Democrats said that immigration should be reduced in 2023. Now, in 2024, 28% of Democrats want to reduce immigration.
Americans have become significantly more supportive of border security measures in the last several years.
While only 40% of Americans favored expanding the construction of walls along the U.S.-Mexico border in 2019, that figure jumped to 53% in 2023.
In 2019, just 37% of Americans were in favor of deporting all illegal immigrants back to their homelands. The figure sat at 47% as of 2023, according to Gallup.
The American public’s shifting views on immigration come amid a presidency where more than <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2455010/illegal-border-crossers-total-over-10-million-since-biden-inauguration/">10 million</a> people have unlawfully crossed the border during the Biden administration, with an estimated <a href="https://cis.org/Arthur/Blockbuster-House-Report-Reveals-How-Badly-Bidens-Broken-Our-Immigration-System">1.7 million illegal immigrant gotaways recorded</a> since President Joe Biden was inaugurated in 2021. There were 415,000 total reported gotaways for 2018, 2019, and 2020 under the Trump administration.
Immigration has become a major issue heading into the 2024 presidential race. One poll found that only <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/voters-say-immigration-is-top-issue-facing-country-biden-faces-widespread-disapproval-on-immigration">36% of voters</a> approve of Biden’s performance on immigration, while <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/majority-of-americans-support-building-border-wall-increasing-deportations-penalizing-businesses-that-hire-illegal-immigrants">another</a> found that a majority of Americans support increasing deportations, building a wall on the southern border, and penalizing businesses that hire illegal immigrants.
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A significantly higher percentage of Republicans say they are &#8220;extremely proud&#8221; to be American compared to Democrats and independents, according to <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/646655/american-pride-remains-near-record-low.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> results released just two days before Independence Day.
The Gallup poll, which surveyed U.S. adults from June 3-23, shows that 59% of Republicans say they are &#8220;extremely proud&#8221; of their national identity, which remains near record-low numbers. Only 34% of Democrats and 36% of independents said the same, which is up slightly from last year for both demographics, according to Gallup.
The gap between Republicans and Democrats in expressing pride in America has closed in the past five years. Republicans&#8217; pride in their country has dropped from 76% to 59%, while Democrats&#8217; pride in America has risen from 22% in 2019 to 34% in 2024. The Gallup results show that that gap began to close toward the end of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s term in office and throughout President Joe Biden&#8217;s first term.
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A majority of U.S. adults (67%) are extremely or very proud to be an American.
Republicans are uniquely patriotic, with 59% versus 36% of independents and 34% of Democrats reporting they are extremely proud to be American.
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Gallup&#8217;s latest survey results show a stark contrast in how Republicans, Democrats, and independents felt about being American 20 years ago. In 2004, 82% of Republicans, 65% of independents, and 60% of Democrats said they were &#8220;extremely proud&#8221; to be American. Republicans have maintained a higher sense of pride in their national identity than Democrats and independents since the turn of the century.
&#8220;Americans’ national pride was highest after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, when patriotism surged in the U.S.,&#8221; Gallup wrote. &#8220;Extreme pride has been trending downward since 2015.&#8221;
&#8220;While the percentage of U.S. adults who say they are extremely proud to be American is near the lowest point on record, about two-thirds continue to be at least very proud,&#8221; Gallup added. &#8220;Republicans’ national pride, though near its lowest point, remains high compared with Democrats’ and independents’, although all party groups are significantly less proud than they were 20 years ago.&#8221;
According to the survey, 18% of U.S. adults say they are &#8220;moderately proud&#8221; to be American, 10% say they are &#8220;only a little&#8221; proud, and 5% say they are &#8220;not at all&#8221; proud.
Another Gallup <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/646643/june-economic-confidence-stable-low.aspx?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=o_social&amp;utm_term=gallup&amp;utm_campaign=x-news-eci_070324" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> taken over the same time period showed that Americans have an overall negative view of the current economic conditions. Forty-eight percent of respondents said economic conditions in the U.S. are &#8220;poor,&#8221; 28% said they are &#8220;only fair,&#8221; and only 25% said they are &#8220;excellent/good.&#8221; Nearly 70% of Americans said they believe the economy is &#8220;getting worse,&#8221; and 26% said it&#8217;s &#8220;getting better.&#8221;
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25% of Americans describe current U.S. economic conditions as “excellent” or “good,” up three points from May.
However, the percentage rating conditions “poor,” now 48%, also increased slightly, blunting positive movement in the index
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— Gallup (@Gallup) <a href="https://twitter.com/Gallup/status/1808609210638139463?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Most Republicans ‘Extremely Proud’ To Be American Compared To Just 1/3 Of Dems, Independents: Poll

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More than one in five Generation Z adults now identify as LGBT, new data shows, including nearly 30% of Gen Z women.
About 22% of young adults who were aged 18 to 26 last year self-identify as LGBT, according to a poll released Wednesday by Gallup.
This is higher than the nearly one in 10 millennials — those aged 27 to 42 — who identify as LGBT, and even higher than the 5% of Generation X, 2% of baby boomers, and 1% of the Silent Generation who identify as such.
“Overall, each younger generation is about twice as likely as the generation that preceded it to identify as LGBTQ+,” reads the report.
Meanwhile, the general population of adults who identify as LGBT hit 7.6% last year, an all-time high, while 85.6% say they are straight or heterosexual.
Back in 2012, the percentage of those who identified as LGBT sat at just 3.5%.
The increase is driven in part by Gen Z women, almost 30% of whom identify as LGBT, mostly bisexual, according to Jeffrey Jones, a senior editor at Gallup.
“That’s where a lot of the growth seems to be happening,” Jones <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nearly-30-gen-z-women-identify-lgbtq-gallup-survey-finds-rcna143019" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NBC News.
A large chunk of millennial women, 9% also identify as bisexual.
Bisexual identities were the largest LGBT group, making up more than half, 57% of those who identified as LGBT and 4.4% of adults overall, according to Gallup.
Gay men were next, making up 18.1% of those who identified as LGBT. Lesbians made up 15.1%, and trans-identifying people made up 11.8%, according to the poll.
Pansexual and asexual identities were volunteered by less than 2% of adults who said they were LGBT.
Overall, 8.5% of women and 4.7% of men identified as LGBT, the survey found, making women nearly twice as likely to identify as LGBT.
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Critics have also sounded the alarm in recent years about an increasing number of teen girls identifying as transgender and seeking out transgender medical services with permanent effects.
Teen girls are many times more likely to seek out transgender medical services than teen boys, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-topsurgery/#:~:text=Adolescents%20assigned%20female%20at%20birth%20initiate%20transgender%20care%202.5%20to,legal%2C%20academic%20and%20other%20professionals." target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).
Gallup surveyed about 12,000 Americans aged 18 and up over the phone.
&#8220;The percentage of U.S. adults who consider themselves something other than heterosexual has more than doubled since Gallup first asked about sexual orientation and transgender identity in 2012,&#8221; Gallup&#8217;s report says.
&#8220;These changes have been led by younger Americans,&#8221; the report says, adding that if the current trends continue, it is likely that those who identify as LGBT will top 10% of all adults in the next 30 years.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democratic-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democratic</a> support among minority voters is slipping, according to polling and analytics from Gallup.
While Democrats still hold leads over the GOP in support among black and Hispanic voters, the Democratic Party’s edge is at a record low. While the gap has narrowed among those demographics, the gap in education groups has surged.
In 2023, Democrats had the largest lead over Republicans that either party possessed in any demographic in non-Hispanic black adults, according to <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/609776/democrats-lose-ground-black-hispanic-adults.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gallup</a>. Sixty-six percent of black voters identified as Democrats or Democratic-leaning. Just 19% of black voters sided with Republicans.
That 47-point difference is a record low for the poll, however. The gap has never been that narrow since Gallup began its poll in 1999. In 2020, Democrats had a 66-point advantage over Republicans among black voters, with 77% siding with Democrats to the GOP’s 11%.
Gallup mapped a similar trend among Hispanic adults. In 2023, Democrats enjoyed a 12-point advantage over the GOP among voters in the demographic. That is the closest the gap has been since 2011 when Gallup began regularly polling in Spanish as well as English. The parties tended to have roughly equal support in the demographic 1999 to 2009, however, according to Gallup.
While the gap has narrowed among certain minority groups, the gap has widened in certain education groups, with those with more education tending to favor Democrats and those with lower levels of education favoring Republicans.
Voters with no college or some college identify as Republican or Republican-leaning about half the time, whereas about 40% say the same for Democrats. Among those with a post graduate degree, Democrats have a 29-point advantage over Republicans, 60% to 31%.
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The insights into the American electorate come as President Joe Biden struggles to top former President Donald Trump, the GOP frontrunner, in the polls.
In a hypothetical Trump v. Biden matchup in the general election, the former president has been outpolling the current president across several polls. The RealClearPolitics polling average <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a> Trump leading Biden by more than two points, 46.7 to 44.6.
The most recent poll in the average, a survey by NBC News, shows Biden polling at the lowest approval rating over his term as the president faces stiff opposition from voters. Just 37% of voters approve of the job Biden is doing as president versus 60% who disapprove, according to the <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24402843/240037-nbc-january-2024-poll_2424-release.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a>.

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Americans&#8217; confidence in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/military" target="_blank" rel="noopener">military</a> has fallen to the lowest level in decades, according to new polling data from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gallup" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gallup</a>. 
Confidence in the U.S. military by Americans of all political affiliations <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/509189/confidence-military-lowest-two-decades.aspx#:~:text=The%20military,-Get%20the%20data&amp;text=It%20then%20surged%20after%20the,poorly%20executed%20exit%20from%20Afghanistan." target="_blank" rel="noopener">has fallen</a> to just 60%, tying the lowest number since 1997, Gallup found. The last time confidence was below 60% was in 1988, when just 58% had confidence in the military. The data was collected from June 1-22. 
&#8220;At 60%, confidence in the military was last this low in 1997, and it hasn’t been lower since 1988, when 58% were confident. From the late 1970s to the early 1980s — during the Cold War and amid threats to U.S. power, including the Iran hostage crisis — between 50% and 58% of Americans were confident in the military,&#8221; Gallup reported.
The fall in confidence in the military has been especially pronounced among Republicans, who have historically been the most likely to be supportive of the military. Republican confidence in the military has dropped by 23 points since 2020, when 91% expressed confidence in the military. 
While Gallup noted that Democrats’ confidence rose after President Joe Biden was inaugurated, it has since declined. The group with the lowest amount of confidence was independents, whose confidence level sits at just 55%. 
The drop in confidence came after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-house-republican-blasts-bidens-claims-about-afghanistan-devoid-of-reality" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bungled withdrawal</a> from Afghanistan, where the U.S. had a military presence for over 20 years. Thirteen American service members were killed in a suicide bombing during the final days of the withdrawal as the Taliban quickly took power. 
Some have placed the decline in confidence on a politicized Department of Defense. 
“Americans&#8217; confidence in the U.S. military is the lowest in 2 decades! Our ‘leaders’ have tarnished the military’s history and legacy by putting woke indoctrination before patriotism &amp; foreign conflict before American interests,” <a href="https://twitter.com/amrenewctr/status/1686381037235150849" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the Center for Renewing America, a conservative policy organization. 
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The military has also been struggling with recruiting, with the Army missing its recruitment goals in fiscal year 2022 and <a href="https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2023/05/03/short-handed-army-to-miss-recruiting-goal-for-second-year-in-a-row/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcing</a> earlier this year that it would likely miss its goals again in fiscal year 2023 when it had hoped to recruit 452,000 soldiers. 
Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said that they might have to “do some thinning out” across the Army because the military was losing service members faster than they were gaining them. 
“If we don’t turn our recruiting situation around, I can’t guarantee you that the Army won’t have to make some substantial potential force structure reductions,” Wormuth said.

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The number of Americans who show “extreme pride” in the United States is just one percent above the lowest number ever recorded, but Republicans are much more likely than Democrats to show patriotism, according to a recent Gallup <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/507980/extreme-pride-american-remains-near-record-low.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a>.
The survey found that just 39% of adults are “extremely proud” of being an American, up from 38% last year — a record low. Since 2017, the number of Americans showing high levels of patriotism in their county has been below 50%. Republicans are twice as likely to identify as extremely proud than Democrats. 
“Party identification remains the greatest demographic differentiator in expressions of national pride, and Republicans have been consistently more likely than Democrats and independents to express pride in being American throughout the trend,” Megan Brenan, research consultant at Gallup, said of the results. “That gap has been particularly pronounced since 2018, with more than twice as many Republicans as Democrats saying they are extremely proud.”
The poll, conducted between June 1-22, shows a strong partisan divide in levels of patriotism. Sixty percent of Republicans, up from 58% last year, say they are “extremely proud” to be an American. For Democrats, that number is just 29%, up from 26% last year, while 33% of independents feel the same. 
Though the number of those who show extreme pride seems low, combined with those that are “very proud” to be Americans, the number is 67% — up from 65% last year. 
“In terms of the combined percentages saying they are extremely or very proud, roughly nine in 10 Americans expressed high levels of pride in the earliest years of the trend, through 2004,” Brenan says. “In 2005, that figure began falling into the 80% range, before dropping to 75% in 2017 and staying below 70% since 2020.&#8221;
In 2001, the first year Gallup asked the question, the number of Americans extremely proud of their country was 55%, and 87% combined with those who were very proud. Gallup notes that after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, levels of patriotism “intensified,” with 65-70% of Americans identifying as extremely proud.
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According to the poll, 4% of Americans are “not at all proud” to be an American, while 7% are “only a little proud,” 22% are “moderately proud,” and 28% are “very proud.” 
The results also have a distinct age gap, with older people much more likely to show high levels of patriotism. While 42% of Republicans aged 18-34 are extremely proud of their country, that number is 64% for the 35-54 age group and 68% for the 55+ age group. Just 38% of Democrats aged 55-plus are extremely proud to be American, the poll found. For Democrats 18-34, that number is a mere 12%. 
“Although the percentage of U.S. adults who say they are extremely proud to be American remains near the record low, together with the share who are very proud, about two-thirds express national pride,” Brenan concluded.

U.S. Adults ‘Extremely Proud’ To Be American Near Record Low

Americans’ support for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lgbtq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">same-sex relations</a> has dropped seven points since last year, a new poll from Gallup found.
The annual Values and Beliefs poll, which was conducted by Gallup between May 1 and 24, measures Americans’ moral beliefs on a number of different topics, including divorce, the death penalty, abortion, and same-sex relationships.
“Last year, a record-high 71% of U.S. adults said gay or lesbian relations are morally acceptable. The figure has fallen back this year to 64%, returning to a level last seen in 2019,” Gallup noted in an <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/507230/fewer-say-sex-relations-morally-acceptable.aspx?utm_source=alert&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=morelink&amp;utm_campaign=syndication" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> explaining the poll results.
Gallup attributes the sharp decline primarily to Republicans. While 56% of Republicans said that same-sex relations were acceptable last year, the figure has plummeted to 41%. The vast majority of Democrats, 79%, say that same-sex relations are morally acceptable, while 73% of Independents agree.
“The current figure is the lowest Gallup has measured for Republicans since 2014,” when it was 39%, Gallup states.
Meanwhile, acceptance of same-sex relationships remains significantly higher than it was in the recent past, however. In 2002, only 38% of Americans found same-sex relationships acceptable, while only 54% believed they were acceptable in 2012.
The poll also found that there was a three-point drop in the percentage of people who believe divorce to be morally acceptable, with 81% of respondents saying that it is acceptable in 2022, as opposed to 78% in 2023. The number of Americans who say that abortion is morally acceptable did not change between 2022 and 2023, remaining at 52%.
Approval for pornography usage experienced a slight decrease from 41% to 39%, while approval for sex between unmarried men and women dipped 4% from 76% to 72%.
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The poll results come after a different Gallup <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/507023/say-birth-gender-dictate-sports-participation.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> found that Americans overwhelmingly believe that people should play in the sports league that corresponds with their sex. A full 69% of respondents say that athletes should only be able to play on “teams that match their birth gender.” The figure is up seven points from 2021.

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The number of Americans who identify as socially conservative has reached the highest level since 2012, according to a Gallup poll <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/506765/social-conservatism-highest-decade.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> last week.
The numbers are part of Gallup’s Values and Beliefs survey, which was conducted May 1-24 with a random sample of 1,011 respondents. It found that 38% of Americans identify as “very conservative” or “conservative” — up from 33% in 2022, 30% in 2021, and tied with 2012 numbers. This comes as the number of Americans who identify as “very liberal” or “liberal” dropped to 29% from 34% in 2022.
“For most of the past eight years, Americans were about as likely to say they were liberal as conservative on social issues,” Gallup senior editor Jeffrey Jones said. “This year, there is a more obvious conservative advantage. The shift is mostly due to increasing social conservatism among Republicans, at a time when social issues such as transgender rights, abortion and other hot-button concerns are prominent in the national public debate.”
Social conservatism for Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 had a 6% increase from 2021, while those aged 30-49 saw a 13% increase and those aged 50-64 saw an 11% increase. Americans over the age of 65 were the only age group that saw a decrease, dropping to 42% from 43% in 2021.
Similarly, the number of Americans who identify as economically conservative has reached 44%, up from 40% in 2022 and more than double the 21% of Americans who identify as “very liberal” or “liberal” economically, according to the poll. Seventy-nine percent of Republicans identified as “very conservative” or “conservative” when it comes to the economy, while 36% of independents and 16% of Democrats felt the same.
The Values and Beliefs survey also <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/507023/say-birth-gender-dictate-sports-participation.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> that the majority of Americans don’t believe transgender-identifying athletes should be able to compete against those of the opposite sex. According to the survey, 69% of Americans believe athletes should only be allowed to play on teams that conform to their actual gender, up from 62% in 2021.
Additionally, most Americans, 55%,  believe it’s “morally wrong” to change genders, compared to 43% who think it’s “morally acceptable.” The breakdown by political party on the issue shows that 84% of Republicans, 50% of Independents, and 29% of Democrats believe it’s morally wrong.
These numbers come as conservatives have been touting major wins in recent weeks regarding boycotts of various brands that have promoted transgender ideology, including Bud Light and Target. In late May, Target’s stock market value had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/targets-stock-market-value-takes-6-billion-hit-since-backlash-over-pride-collection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taken</a> a $6 billion hit since it had received backlash for its “Pride” collection, while sales of Bud Light <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bud-light-sales-continue-to-plummet-may-soon-lose-status-as-number-one-beer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continued</a> to fall since it partnered with Dylan Mulvaney, a man who identifies as a woman.
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“Greater social conservatism may be fostering an environment more favorable to passing conservative-leaning social legislation, especially in Republican-dominated states,” Jones said.

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