The majority of Americans want federal workers to stop participating in union activities while on the job, new polling shared with The Daily Wire from a union watchdog shows.
The Public Labor Union Accountability Committee released polling on Monday showing that 91% of Americans want to know how much it costs them for government workers to do union activities during their working hours. The same poll found that 88% of Americans want more transparency around government unions and how much they cost taxpayers. 
&#8220;We asked voters what they think about public sector unions — and the results were clear,&#8221; the committee said in a memo on its polling. &#8220;Americans are fed up with the unions’ highly partisan political activity and voiced strong support for more transparency and accountability in how they operate.&#8221;
The polling was a nationwide survey of 600 registered voters through an online panel. 
Government unions are notoriously partisan, heavily backing Democrat candidates. In the 2024 election, the four largest public unions — American Federation of Teachers (AFT), National Education Association (NEA), Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) — gave $708 million to Democrat candidates. 
Those surveyed by the Public Labor Union Accountability Committee opposed the overwhelming slant of union spending toward Democrats. Sixty-five percent were opposed to the fact ​​that “last year, the nation’s largest union of federal employees gave over 95% of its political donations to one political party.&#8221;
Mary Katharine Ham, a new senior advisor for the watchdog, told The Daily Wire public unions were mainly a tool for Democrat politicians, not American workers. 
“These public sector unions pretend to stand up for workers, when they are really a money laundering outfit for the Democratic Party – ripping off the American taxpayer at every turn,” she said. “Big labor is the power center for Democrats – their organizing muscle and money. They stand in the way of common sense, of our federal government being more accountable and better run. And some of their demands are pure comedy.” 
Large majorities also demanded that “federal employees should not be allowed to influence a presidential election” (75%) and “public sector unions need to stay out of politics” (70%).
Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) has introduced new legislation called the “Protecting Taxpayers’ Wallet Act” which would mandate federal unions reimburse the government when employees use official working hours to do union work. 
“No surprise — new polling shows the American People want more transparency surrounding public sector unions,” Perry told The Daily Wire. “The bill is a commonsense fix against ever present waste, fraud, and abuse. We need more union watchdogs like PLUAC holding government unions accountable.”
President Donald Trump has already taken action to curb the activity of some government unions. Last month, he signed an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-signs-eo-ending-union-rights-at-federal-agencies-with-national-security-missions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> that ends collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of federal employees whose work is related to national security.

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New polling shared exclusively with The Daily Wire shows that a majority of residents in Maine are in favor of protecting girls&#8217; and women&#8217;s sports, falling in line with President Donald Trump on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/surrounded-by-young-female-athletes-donald-trump-bans-men-from-womens-sports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender policy</a>.
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The American Parents Coalition <a href="https://americanparentscoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/American-Parents-Coalition-Maine-Survey-Topline.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">surveyed</a> around 600 registered Maine voters, 63% of whom said school sports participation should be based on biological sex. Sixty-six percent agreed it&#8217;s &#8220;only fair to restrict women’s sports to biological women.&#8221;
The poll also found that 60% of respondents would support a ballot measure limiting participation in women’s and girls’ sports to biological females, including 64% of independents and 66% of parents with kids under age 18.
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Residents were also asked about gender-related policies in schools, with respondents strongly agreeing that school personnel do not have a right to secretly discuss gender with students.
Seventy-two percent of respondents said schools should be required to notify a student&#8217;s parents before counseling the child about changing their gender identity, and 64% said they don&#8217;t think school administrators and teachers should be permitted to withhold information about a child&#8217;s desire to change genders.
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Maine&#8217;s Democrat Governor Janet Mills got into a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-spars-with-maines-dem-governor-over-men-in-womens-sports-at-white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">public spat with Trump</a> last month when she refused to comply with the president&#8217;s order barring males from girls&#8217; sports, <a href="https://x.com/TheMaineWire/status/1904334942999363625" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arguing</a> that she was following state law.
However, federal Title IX rules separate sports based on sex to ensure equal opportunity. Only recently has the federal government decided to effectively interrupt Title IX through the lens of so-called gender identity, a notion Trump has strongly rejected. 
Moreover, as the poll suggests, Maine residents do not agree with Mills&#8217; position. Even before polling was available, Maine State Rep. Laurel Libby (R), who was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-will-not-be-silenced-democrats-censure-maines-laurel-libby-for-calling-out-trans-sports-policy">censured</a> for calling attention to Maine&#8217;s transgender sports policy, said residents want to protect girls&#8217; sports.
“They know, just like I knew that evening, that it is inherently unfair,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It is unfair for biological males with their physiologic advantages to be participating in girls’ sports and to be replacing girls, to be taking their place. They know that Maine girls don&#8217;t have a fair and level playing field and that that is absolutely wrong.”
The Daily Wire also spoke to investigative reporter and Editor-in-Chief of The Maine Wire, Steven Robinson, who echoed Libby.
&#8220;I would say all the activism has been in favor of Representative Laurel Libby — in favor of keeping boys out of girls&#8217; sports,&#8221; Robinson told The Daily Wire on Wednesday. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;ve seen any counter demonstrations. It really seems like the national attitude of basically <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-polling-shows-americans-overwhelmingly-support-gop-position-on-numerous-trans-issues" target="_blank" rel="noopener">80-20</a>, 90-10 is reflected here, even if Maine is a blue state.&#8221; 
American Parents Coalition Executive Director Alleigh Marré said their polling &#8220;affirms what we all know to be true.&#8221;
&#8220;Governor Mills and Maine Democrats are acting on political motivations, not what’s best for or desired by a majority of Mainers,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Allowing biological males to compete with girls robs female athletes of the opportunity to compete and win on a level playing field. While Mainers overwhelmingly support this fact, their out-of-touch leadership does not.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-gives-maine-10-days-to-comply-with-wh-block-males-from-female-sports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump Admin Gives Maine 10 Days To Comply With WH, Block Males From Female Sports</a>

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There’s a fascinating and important reason President Donald Trump’s approval rating is three points above water while he is underwater with independents: Republicans are more united behind him than Democrats are united opposing him.
CNN’s Harry Enten explained Wednesday morning that despite the fact that Trump is minus 10 points among independents, he had “broken the mold by remaking the electorate from +6 Dem in 2021 to +2 GOP now,” adding, “Moreover, the GOP base is more behind Trump (+84 pt net approval) than the Dem base is against him (-78 pts).”
“What&#8217;s going on here is, remember in term one there was all that big opposition to Donald Trump. Democrats hated him,” Enten recalled. “Well, right now, Trump&#8217;s net approval rating among Democrats is underwater. Way underwater at -78 points. But the Trump base is consolidated behind the Republican president to an extent that we really did not necessarily see in term number one. Look at this: his net approval rating is plus 84 points. So, more Republicans are behind Donald Trump than Democrats are opposed to Donald Trump, and that is lifting him up and giving him that positive net approval rating.”
“Donald Trump and the Republican Party has (sic) changed the electorate,” Enten posited. “What do I mean by that? Well, let&#8217;s take a look at party identification. Democrats versus Republicans. You go back to 2017, five points more of the electorate was Democrats than Republicans. You go to 2021 when Joe Biden was starting out, look at that, six points more of the electorate was Democrats than Republicans.”
“But look at what&#8217;s happened in February of 2025,” he continued. “Look at this. Republicans. There are more Republicans in the electorate than there are Democrats. Republican plus two. So, Donald Trump and the Republicans have remade the electorate. They&#8217;ve turned some people over from being Democrats or independents to become Republicans. New folks have entered the electorate who are more Republican-leaning. And so, when you combine that with the fact that Republicans are really, really behind Donald Trump, all of a sudden you get a winning recipe whereby you break the normal rules of politics and give Donald Trump that positive net approval rating when he had pretty much a consistently negative one in term number one.”
“As I said at the beginning, he&#8217;s copying Frank Sinatra, doing it my way,” Enten proclaimed.
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Trump&#39;s underwater with indies, but has an overall positive net approval. How?
Trump&#39;s broken the mold by remaking the electorate from +6 Dem in 2021 to +2 GOP now!
Moreover, the GOP base is more behind Trump (+84 pt net approval) than the Dem base is against him (-78 pts). <a href="https://t.co/fabfjKYR79">pic.twitter.com/fabfjKYR79</a>
&mdash; (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) <a href="https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1892234050724659321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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An Anti-Defamation League survey released Tuesday reveals that 46% of adults worldwide now hold significant <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anti-semitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-Semitic</a> beliefs, signaling what the organization calls a &#8220;global emergency.&#8221;
According to The Times of Israel, the ADL&#8217;s global survey <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/global-emergency-nearly-half-the-worlds-adults-hold-antisemitic-views-adl-survey/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> 58,000 respondents in 103 countries if they agreed with 11 anti-Semitic tropes, such as: &#8220;Jews&#8217; loyalty is only to Israel&#8221; and &#8220;Jews have too much power in the business world.&#8221; The survey found that 46% of adults worldwide endorsed a majority of these statements, representing approximately 2.2 billion people.
Anti-Semitism was most prevalent in the Middle East and North Africa, with roughly three-quarters of respondents holding significant anti-Semitic views, and the West Bank and Gaza topping the list at 97%. In contrast, Western Europe had lower levels at 17%, and the United States reported that 9% of respondents held significant anti-Semitic beliefs.
ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt described the findings as a &#8220;global emergency,&#8221; noting a 108% increase in anti-Semitic views since a similar survey in 2014. He expressed concern over the rise among younger generations, with half of respondents under the age of 35 harboring anti-Semitic sentiments, 13 percentage points higher than adults over the age of 50.
Only 39% of respondents aged 18 to 34 agreed with the mainstream historical narrative of the Holocaust, with the remainder expressing beliefs that the number of Jewish deaths was exaggerated, that the Holocaust was a myth, or stating they had never heard of it.
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For the general population, 48% accepted the historical account, while 20% indicated they had &#8220;not heard about the Holocaust.&#8221;
Marina Rosenberg, ADL senior vice president of international affairs, described the views of young adults as a &#8220;demographic time bomb,&#8221; emphasizing the urgency in addressing the spread of anti-Semitic ideologies among the youth.
The ADL attributes the rise in anti-Semitism to factors such as the influence of social media, the spread of conspiracy theories, and increasing polarization in societies worldwide.
Despite the alarming statistics, the survey found that 57% of all respondents recognized anti-Jewish hatred as a serious problem. Additionally, a majority expressed openness toward Israel, with 75% stating their country should welcome Israeli tourists and 71% supporting diplomatic ties with Israel. Only 25% supported boycotting Israeli businesses.
In response to the findings, the ADL is urging governments and organizations to adopt the Global Guidelines for Countering Antisemitism, a framework introduced in July and endorsed by dozens of countries and multilateral organizations. The guidelines aim to provide actionable steps to combat anti-Semitism and promote education and awareness.
The extensive survey was conducted in collaboration with the Paris-based Ipsos research firm and involved 58,000 interviews across 103 countries and territories. Conducted primarily via phone between late July and early November 2024, the research was carried out in 80 languages and dialects. Each country&#8217;s sample included either 500 or 1,000 residents, with a margin of error ranging from 3.2% to 4.4%.

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An egregiously wrong Des Moines Register poll by formerly well-respected pollster J. Ann Selzer published three days before the presidential election has catalyzed President-elect Donald Trump to say enough is enough — and sue them.
On November 2, the Register published Selzer’s poll, which came as a shock, as it showed Vice-President Kamala Harris with a three-point lead over Trump in a state Trump wound up winning by over 13 points. Within days after the election, Selzer abruptly retired.
There were suspicions about the apparent leaking of the poll prior to its release. “Roughly 45 minutes prior to the poll’s public release, a stray <a href="https://x.com/IllinoisLib/status/1852837036597948760" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet</a> predicted the poll’s findings,” Semafor <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/11/10/2024/gannett-probes-possible-leak-of-bombshell-iowa-poll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. “Its author <a href="https://x.com/PritzkerForPrez/status/1852879977487724566" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, a Duke University alumnus, had mentioned the not-yet-released poll during a Duke Democrats meeting that day.”
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Selzer is about to drop Kamala +3 
Source: Major campaign surrogate 
Not joking. Mark my words.
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The lawsuit, filed Monday night and also naming Gannett, the Register’s parent company, states it seeks &#8220;accountability for brazen election interference committed by&#8221; the Des Moines Register (DMR) and Selzer &#8220;in favor of now-defeated former Democrat candidate Kamala Harris through use of a leaked and manipulated Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/shock-poll-harris-leading-trump-iowa-3-point-shift-toward-vice-president-red-state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Poll conducted</a> by Selzer and S&amp;C and published by DMR and Gannett in the Des Moines Register on Nov. 2, 2024,” Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-sues-des-moines-register-top-pollster-brazen-election-interference-fraud-over-harris-poll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The lawsuit also states, “Contrary to reality and defying credulity, defendants’ Harris Poll was published three days before Election Day and purported to show Harris leading President Trump in Iowa by three points; President Trump ultimately won Iowa by over thirteen points.” It continues that the three-point Harris lead in &#8220;deep-red Iowa was not reality, it was election-interfering fiction.&#8221;
Selzer had &#8220;prided herself on a mainstream reputation for accuracy despite several far less publicized egregious polling misses in favor of Democrats,&#8221; the lawsuit continued, and that Selzer &#8220;would have the public believe it was merely a coincidence that one of the worst polling misses of her career came just days before the most consequential election in memory, was leaked and happened to go against the Republican candidate.&#8221;
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The Harris Poll was no ‘miss’ but rather an attempt to influence the outcome of the 2024 Presidential Election &#8230; defendants and their cohorts in the Democrat Party hoped that the Harris Poll would create a false narrative of inevitability for Harris in the final week of the 2024 Presidential Election. &#8230; Instead, the November 5 election was a monumental victory for President Trump in both the Electoral College and the Popular Vote, an overwhelming mandate for his America First principles, and the consignment of the radical socialist agenda to the dustbin of history. 
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&#8220;Left-wing pollsters have attempted to influence electoral outcomes through manipulated polls that have unacceptable error rates and are not grounded in widely accepted polling methodologies,” the lawsuit contends. &#8220;While Selzer is not the only pollster to engage in this corrupt practice, she had a huge platform and following and, thus, a significant and impactful opportunity to deceive voters. As Selzer knows, this type of manipulation creates a narrative of inevitability for Democrat candidates, increases enthusiasm among Democrats, compels Republicans to divert campaign time and money to areas in which they are ahead, and deceives the public into believing that Democrat candidates are performing better than they really are.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s attorneys stated that voters were &#8220;badly deceived and misled as to the actual position of the respective candidates in the Iowa Presidential race. &#8230; Moreover, President Trump, the Trump 2024 Campaign, and other Republicans were forced to divert enormous campaign and financial resources to Iowa based on the deceptive Harris Poll.”

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Americans are expressing &#8220;warmer&#8221; feelings toward President-elect Donald Trump after his 2024 election victory than after the 2016 and 2020 elections, according to <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/11/22/public-narrowly-approves-of-trumps-plans-most-are-skeptical-he-will-unify-the-country/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey results</a> published by Pew Research Center on Friday.
A majority of Americans (53%) said they approve of Trump&#8217;s plans for his second term, while 46% disapprove, according to Pew Research. The survey, which received responses from more than 9,500 adults from November 12 to 17, showed that Americans expressed the most confidence in Trump&#8217;s ability to handle economic policy (59%), law enforcement and criminal justice (54%), immigration (53%), and foreign policy (53%).
On the issues of abortion and unifying the country, however, fewer Americans expressed confidence in Trump&#8217;s plans — 45% are confident in Trump&#8217;s handling of abortion, while 41% are confident that he can unite the country.
Pew also asked respondents to indicate how they felt about Trump, ranging from &#8220;very warm&#8221; and &#8220;warm&#8221; to &#8220;cold&#8221; and &#8220;very cold.&#8221; Forty-three percent of respondents said they felt &#8220;warm&#8221; or &#8220;very warm&#8221; toward Trump, a significant increase from 34% after the 2020 election and 36% after the 2016 election.
The positive results for Trump from the Pew survey come just days after a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll showing that 54% of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing as he prepares for another term, The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4998260-majority-of-voters-approve-of-trump-poll-shows/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. According to the poll, 91% of Republicans, 49% of independents, and 22% of Democrats approve of how Trump is handling the transition period.
Americans have already received a glimpse into what Trump&#8217;s second term will look like as the president-elect quickly got to work naming people to fill important cabinet positions. Trump has also signaled that he will waste no time in implementing his campaign pledge for mass deportations, tapping former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-what-trumps-incoming-border-czar-has-said-and-done-about-deportations-border-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tom Homan</a> to serve as his &#8220;border czar.&#8221;
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Trump&#8217;s approval is also spiking among young adults, according to a recent YouGov poll. The survey, conducted between November 17 and 19, showed Trump boasting a 57% approval rating among Americans aged 18 to 29 — a 19-point increase from a YouGov poll conducted earlier in the month, according to <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trumps-favorability-surges-nearly-20-points-young-americans-1989128" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsweek</a>.
Trump cruised to a landslide victory over Vice President Kamala Harris on November 5, taking 312 electoral votes to Harris&#8217; 226. Trump is also leading in the popular vote by more than 2.5 million votes as ballots continue to be counted in some states.
In 2017, Trump entered office underwater by 2 points in his approval rating, according to <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/presidential-approval-ratings-donald-trump.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gallup</a>. During his four years in office, Trump&#8217;s approval rating reached 49% in early 2020 before dipping to 34% by the end of his term.

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More Americans now believe that former President Donald Trump was merely “exercising his right to contest the [2020] election” than they did a few years ago, while fewer believe he “went so far that he threatened American democracy,” according to a newly-released survey.
More Americans still believe the latter over the former, but the gap between the two beliefs has closed in recent years, according to the latest New York Times/Siena National <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/27/us/elections/times-siena-poll-toplines.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> on the question. This same poll has asked registered voters the question since at least July 2022, and since then, voters have shifted toward the belief that Trump had every right to contest the election and away from the belief that he threatened democracy.
When the question was asked in early July 2022, 39% of respondents said they thought Trump was exercising his right, while 55% said he threatened democracy. This was more than a year after the events of January 6, 2021, when Trump supporters entered the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to stop then-Vice President Mike Pence from certifying the 2020 election results as questions about the validity of the ballots remained.
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Now, however, the number of people who believe Trump was just exercising his rights has risen to 46%, while the number who believe he threatened democracy has dropped to 49%. The number of people who said they were unsure or refused to answer has also dropped nearly in half, from 7% in July 2022 to just 4% now.
The latest poll with the question was conducted just after news broke that former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney had communicated with an anti-Trump January 6 hearing witness. Cheney, then representing Wyoming, communicated with the “star witness” of the hearing behind the witness’ attorney’s back, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/liz-cheney-communicated-with-anti-trump-j6-witness-behind-her-lawyers-back" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The initial communication was facilitated by then-Trump strategic communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin, but Cheney later communicated directly with the witness, Cassidy Hutchison.
“Cheney interacted with the witness, former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, through ex-Trump strategic communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin — and later directly — in an effort to compel further testimony …” the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/10/15/us-news/ex-rep-liz-cheney-talked-to-jan-6-committee-star-witness-behind-lawyers-back-damning-texts-show/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nypost" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“Though she worked behind the scenes to obtain Hutchinson’s juiciest allegations in 2022, some of which were <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/11/us-news/house-gop-report-debunks-ex-trump-aide-cassidy-hutchinson-testimony-to-jan-6-panel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">later found to be false</a>, Cheney never mentioned the backchannel talks with Hutchinson or Griffin in her book ‘<a href="https://r.nypostlink.com/?btn_ref=org-19984c113c692001&amp;btn_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FOath-Honor-Warning-Liz-Cheney%2Fdp%2F0316572063%3Ftag%3Dnypost-20%26asc_refurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2024%2F10%2F15%2Fus-news%2Fex-rep-liz-cheney-talked-to-jan-6-committee-star-witness-behind-lawyers-back-damning-texts-show%2F%26asc_source%3Dweb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oath and Honor</a>’ about the riot,” the Post added.
The conversations between Hutchinson and Griffin began two months before the hearing began. Hutchinson’s communications with Cheney started three days before the hearing.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan</a> Democratic Congresswoman and Senate candidate Elissa Slotkin remains ahead of Republican Mike Rogers, but her lead has dwindled by 5 points since late August, according to poll results published by The Detroit News on Monday.
The Detroit News and WDIV-TV <a href="https://subscribe.detroitnews.com/restricted?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.detroitnews.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F2024%2F10%2F07%2Fpoll-elissa-slotkin-holds-edge-over-mike-rogers-as-michigan-senate-race-narrows-2024-election%2F75554380007%2F&amp;gps-source=CPROADBLOCKDH&amp;itm_source=roadblock&amp;itm_medium=onsite&amp;itm_campaign=premiumroadblock&amp;gca-cat=p&amp;slug=restricted&amp;redirect=true&amp;offer=W-HP&amp;gnt-eid=control" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a>, which was conducted between October 1-4, showed Slotkin at 46.8% among likely Michigan voters to Rogers&#8217; 43.3%. Slotkin&#8217;s 3.5-point lead over the Republican in the latest poll is a big drop from her 8.5-point lead over Rogers in a Detroit News poll conducted at the end of August.
The poll suggests that Rogers has picked up significant support from voters who were undecided in late August. In the Detroit News&#8217; August poll, Rogers was at 35% to Slotkin&#8217;s 43.5% while 15% of respondents said they were still undecided. In the newest poll, only 5.4% of respondents said they were still undecided as Rogers&#8217; support jumped to 43.3%.
Rogers has also started to close the gap in the <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate/general/2024/michigan/rogers-vs-slotkin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RealClearPolitics</a> average of polls, where he is just 3 points behind Slotkin as of Tuesday afternoon after trailing by 5 points in mid-September.
The Rogers campaign is benefitting from conservative political action committees <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/30m-dumped-into-tight-mi-senate-race-to-boost-republican" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dumping $30 million</a> into the race. The Great Lakes Conservative Fund, a super PAC, spent $8 million on statewide ads last week, Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/10/01/michigan-senate-race-rogers-slotkin-super-pac" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. That ad buy came after Mitch McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund started to spend $22.5 million in Michigan to boost Rogers, according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/republicans-deploy-cash-to-crack-democrats-blue-wall-in-senate-b8a3dd6f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
The Detroit News poll comes shortly after Slotkin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mi-dem-senate-candidate-warns-internal-polling-shows-kamala-underwater-in-state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> donors on a call that her campaign&#8217;s internal polling shows Vice President Kamala Harris &#8220;underwater&#8221; in Michigan.
“I’m not feeling my best right now about where we are in Kamala Harris in a place like Michigan. We have her underwater in our polling,” Slotkin said last month.
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Rogers has recently focused his attention on hitting Slotkin over comments she has made on electric vehicles, a major issue for Michigan&#8217;s economy. In a new ad, Slotkin pushes back on EV mandates, saying, &#8220;No one should tell us what to buy, and no one is gonna mandate anything.&#8221; In September, however, Slotkin voted against a bipartisan bill that would have blocked the Biden-Harris administration from requiring two-thirds of new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be electric, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/slotkin-launches-anti-ev-ad-swing-state-senate-race-after-voting-against-bipartisan-pushback-mandates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“Michigan voters understand Slotkin’s lip service in an election year doesn’t match her actions in Washington. Voters recognize Mike Rogers has their back when it comes to fighting the job killing EV mandate, securing the border, and fixing the economy,” Rogers For Senate Press Secretary Kate DeTurk said in a statement shared with The Daily Wire.
The Michigan Senate race, along with the Ohio and Wisconsin Senate races, is considered a &#8220;toss-up,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/senate-race-ratings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cook Political Report</a>. Republicans are looking to flip the seats from Democrats in all of those races.

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A new poll out Wednesday revealed that 17% of voters — and more than one in four Democrats — believe that America would be better off if former President Donald Trump had been shot and killed at his golf club on Sunday afternoon.
The poll, conducted by Scott Rasmussen&#8217;s RMG Research for <a href="https://napolitaninstitute.org/2024/09/18/17-say-america-would-be-better-off-if-trump-had-been-killed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Napolitan News Service</a>, asked 1,000 registered voters to weigh in on the latest news reports regarding the attempt on Trump&#8217;s life — the second assassination attempt he&#8217;s faced in just the last eight weeks.
The question was phrased as follows: &#8220;While it is always difficult to wish ill of another human being, would America be better off if Donald Trump had been killed last weekend?&#8221;
In response, 17% said &#8220;yes,&#8221; 69% said &#8220;no,&#8221; and 14% said that they were &#8220;not sure.&#8221; Among Democrats, 28% said &#8220;yes.&#8221; Another 25% were &#8220;not sure,&#8221; and 47% said &#8220;no.&#8221; Among those who &#8220;lean Democrat,&#8221; the numbers were not much better: 27% said &#8220;yes,&#8221; 53% said &#8220;no,&#8221; and 21% were &#8220;not sure.&#8221;
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28% of Democrats say that America would have been better off if Trump had been assassinated.<a href="https://twitter.com/ScottWRasmussen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottWRasmussen</a> president of RMG Research said “It is hard to imagine a greater threat to democracy than expressing a desire to have your political opponent murdered.” <a href="https://t.co/ck0VdUZlgP">pic.twitter.com/ck0VdUZlgP</a>
&mdash; Napolitan News Service (@NapolitanNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NapolitanNews/status/1836447326627307757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Rasmussen commented on the results, saying, &#8220;It is hard to imagine a greater threat to democracy than expressing a desire to have your political opponent murdered.&#8221;
Other questions were also laid out in Napolitan&#8217;s coverage of the survey, beginning with whether or not, after two assassination attempts against him in just two months, Trump should have his security detail increased.
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Just over half of the Democrats surveyed (51%) said they saw no need for increased security around Trump. Overall, 62% said he probably should have more security going forward, and 32% did not believe he should.
Another question addressed the possible motive behind the attempts on Trump&#8217;s life – specifically whether or not opposing political actors might be involved. Nearly half of Democrats (49%) said they thought Trump or members of his team were working to stage the assassination attempts. Just over half of Republicans (52%) suggested that Vice President Kamala Harris or someone associated with her campaign could have been involved.
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49% of D&#39;s think it&#39;s at least somewhat likely Trump or his campaign were involved in the shootings, suggesting it was staged. 52% of R&#39;s think the Democratic Party or Harris campaign might have been involved. <a href="https://t.co/J5VwQyswGl">https://t.co/J5VwQyswGl</a>
&mdash; Scott Rasmussen (@ScottWRasmussen) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottWRasmussen/status/1836375992748904563?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://napolitaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GCM24-0917-Mini-Toplines-Assassination-Attempt.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">margin of error</a> for this particular survey was +/-3.1.
&#8220;I continue to believe that America’s best days are still to come. However, for years I’ve been saying that things will get worse before they get better,&#8221; Rasmussen added. &#8220;These numbers suggest that the phase of getting worse is clearly upon us.&#8221;

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Vice President Kamala Harris is extremely unpopular among independent voters, according to a poll from Gallup that was released on Wednesday — just 48 days before the election.
The Gallup poll shows Harris at a dismal 35% approval rating among independents with 60% of the voting group disapproving of the vice president. Trump&#8217;s approval rating among independents is underwater by 9 points — 44% approve of him while 53% disapprove. Among all U.S. adults, Trump has an advantage over Harris with a 46% approval rating to Harris&#8217; 44% approval rating, according to Gallup.
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Gallup poll: Favorability Ratings (shift from August)
Donald Trump 
Favorable: 46% (+5) 
Unfavorable: 53% (-2)
Kamala Harris 
Favorable: 44% (-3) 
Unfavorable: 54% (+5) 
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Among independents 
Trump: 44-53 (net: -9) 
Harris: 35-60 (-25)
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&#8220;Despite the overall negative tilt in favorability, both candidates enjoy nearly unanimous positive ratings from their own party faithful and negligible positivity from the opposing party,&#8221; Gallup wrote.
Harris&#8217; approval among Democrats stands at 94% while Trump&#8217;s approval among Republicans is at 91%.
The Gallup poll presents potential concerns for the Harris campaign as the vice president attempts to convince uncommitted voters to back her run. In the 2020 election, Biden won independent voters by 9 points, 52% to 43%, according to <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/30/behind-bidens-2020-victory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pew Research</a>. Biden&#8217;s 2020 success among independents was a drastic swing in favor of Democrats compared to the 2016 election when Trump beat Hillary Clinton among independent voters 43% to 42%.
Political commentators reacted to the new poll on social media, arguing that it spells disaster for Harris.
&#8220;This absolutely tracks with the conversations I’ve had across the country this month,&#8221; Fox News columnist David Marcus <a href="https://x.com/BlueBoxDave/status/1836402309703647595" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. &#8220;Harris needs to turn this around. Nobody knows who she is or what she stands for, and she’s bleeding trust.&#8221;
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&#8220;Kamala’s favorability ratings are beginning to collapse. Look at the numbers for independent voters!&#8221; Outkick founder Clay Travis <a href="https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/1836387661025591568" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;This is why they are trying to hide her. The more people see her, the less they like her.&#8221;
Trump and Harris&#8217; path to victory will likely come down to how well they perform in the seven critical battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. As of Wednesday morning, the race could not be any closer in the top battleground states with Trump and Harris tied at 47.8%, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/elections/president/2024/battleground-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RealClearPolitics</a> average of polling.
Trump holds small leads in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina, while Harris is barely ahead in Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin, per RCP.

Kamala Harris

Kamala’s Approval Rating Among Crucial Voting Bloc Underwater By 25 Points: Poll

Kamala's Approval Rating Among Crucial Voting Bloc Underwater By 25 Points: Poll

There&#8217;s a brand new poll out and Democrats are freaking out. 
Freaking out. 
The brand-new New York Times/Siena College <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/us/politics/trump-and-harris-times-siena-poll.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> has a huge sample size. It shows Donald Trump with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamalas-dnc-convention-bounce-evaporates-in-latest-nytimes-siena-poll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one-point lead</a> over Kamala Harris nationally, 48-47.
This is a disaster area poll for Kamala Harris. I&#8217;ve been saying for a long time that she had hit her high watermark, that there was only receding to the mean from there, that she had had weeks and weeks and weeks of no serious questions asked of her, and eventually the vibes would run out.
But then I considered that I might have been wrong; perhaps she could just run on fumes all the way through the election. 
It turns out the American people really do want Kamala to explicate who she is and what she believes in order for them to make her president of the United States.
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The poll shows Trump up 48-47 among likely voters. If you are looking at all registered voters — which may be more accurate because it&#8217;s hard to tell who is a likely voter and who is a not likely voter in the Trump-Harris election, because Trump brings in a lot of low-propensity voters — Trump is up two points, 46-44.
Those are terrible numbers for Kamala Harris, disastrous numbers. When you look at the crosstabs, it gets even worse for Kamala Harris. 
If you look at the favorability ratings for Donald Trump, 46% of Americans have a very favorable or somewhat favorable rating of President Trump, But if you look at Kamala Harris, her very or somewhat favorable rating rests at 45%, lower than that of President Trump.
Asked if they still needed to learn more about Donald Trump, 87% of the voters said they already knew what they needed to know about him.
But only 67% said they already knew what they needed to know about Kamala Harris. Wait until the remaining one-third of the American population hears about Kamala Harris, how radical she is, how empty she is.
Wait until all of the airwaves are hit with hundreds of millions of dollars in ads saying all of that, that she&#8217;s shallow, that she is radical, that she is empty, that she vacillates on her positions, that she is Machiavellian, that she&#8217;s dishonest.
Wait until they hear all of that again. The debate tomorrow night is going to be nearly everything, not as much for Trump, but for Kamala Harris because a whopping 31% say they need to know more about her policies and plans.
That’s a problem for her because she&#8217;s trying to avoid talking about all of that. 
In addition, 56% of voters said they believed Kamala Harris doesn’t represent change; she represents more of the same. And that’s in an era in which Americans don&#8217;t like what they are seeing.
Meanwhile, 61% said they felt Trump meant a change.
If this is a change election. Donald Trump is ahead. 
As far as the number one issue, if he had to just pick one, 21% say the economy, 14% say abortion. And Trump leads Harris on the economy. 
He trails on abortion, although he has taken some of those points off the table by taking a very milquetoast position on abortion. He&#8217;s not going to get involved at the national level; he has signaled he doesn&#8217;t like heartbeat bills, even at the state level. 
The number three issue was immigration. The number four issue was inflation and cost of living. So three of the top four issues trend toward President Trump. 
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Asked which candidate they thought would do a better job of handling the issues they thought most important, 50% said Trump. Only 43% said Harris. Trump leads by 16% on the economy. He leads by 11% on immigration. 
That is before people know Kamala Harris&#8217;s actual immigration position. She&#8217;s been portraying herself as a border hawk, and she&#8217;s still losing by 11 on the issue and 16 on the economy. She leads on abortion by 17 points. She leads on democracy, however, by only six points. And right now, 51% of Americans say the economy is poor. 28% say only fair.  
This New York Times Siena poll is a disaster for Democrats and a disaster for Kamala Harris. The vibes have run out; the joy has run out.
Donald Trump is the moderate candidate in this election. He has run there on abortion. He has run there on economics. He has run there on security. 
Kamala Harris and Biden have raced to the Left on everything, including transing the kids, equity, tax policy, foreign policy, and oil and gas.
They have run away from moderation. They abandoned the middle in the weird decision that they could somehow duplicate Barack Obama&#8217;s 2012 run. 
I&#8217;ve said before the great unifying field theory of American politics for the Democratic Party was to try and duplicate Barack Obama&#8217;s 2012 coalition, which was a heavy minority turnout and white liberal ladies that was going to spur him to victory.
And Democrats keep trying it. It doesn&#8217;t work all that often. Trying that again is a giant failure. 
You want to know why Trump&#8217;s numbers are up?
It&#8217;s because Democratic Party numbers are down. It&#8217;s because they went too far to the Left. They abandoned the middle. It&#8217;s that simple. 
Every number here looks worse and worse for the Democratic Party and for Kamala Harris. 
And they are freaking out.

Kamala Harris/Donald Trump

Kamala’s Momentum Gone. Trump Regains Lead.

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Former President Donald Trump is locked in a dead heat with Vice President Kamala Harris in the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania, a new poll has found.
The <a href="https://x.com/meridithmcgraw/status/1820453598330802423">poll</a> of 600 likely voters in the Keystone State, <a href="https://fabriziolee.com/about-us/tony-fabrizio/">taken</a> by Fabrizio, Lee &amp; Associates, found that there are very few undecided voters and that Trump and Harris are tied. When voters were asked who they would vote for in a head-to-head matchup between the Republican and Democratic candidates, both garnered 48 percent of the vote. Just 4 percent said that they were undecided.
Pennsylvania carries 19 Electoral College votes, making it a particularly important state as Trump and Harris compete to see who can earn 270 votes, the minimum needed to win the presidency.
The two major candidates were still tied when likely voters in Pennsylvania were given the option to offer their support to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or candidates from other parties. Trump and Harris both garnered 45 percent when voters were given a full ballot, while RFK Jr. received 4 percent of the vote and “other” garnered 2 percent.
Trump does, however, hold a significant advantage when likely voters were asked if they approved of the performance of both of the candidates in office. While 51 percent said that they approved of Trump’s performance as president, just 43 percent said that they approve of the job Harris has done as vice president. Only 41 percent said that they approve of President Joe Biden’s performance in office.
The poll also asked likely voters about various messages about Harris in order to gauge their ability to persuade voters, finding that messaging on the economy, immigration, and crime could be the most effective.
“If you knew that each of the following were TRUE about Kamala Harris, please tell me whether it would make you MORE likely or LESS likely to vote for her for President,” the poll asked respondents before listing off the different messages about the presumptive Democratic nominee.
The highest share of “persuadable voters” said their decision would be impacted when told “Kamala Harris has called for raising trillions of dollars in new taxes through higher income taxes and payroll taxes” and “as D.A., Kamala Harris granted probation to a dangerous illegal immigrant felon who upon release went on to kill a father and his two sons.”
When presented with the information, 68 percent and 67 percent of persuadable voters said that their decision as to who they would vote for would be impacted, respectively.
Another 63 percent of persuadable voters said that their decision would be impacted when told that Harris supported policies that “led to the record high inflation and rising prices that we have now for groceries, housing and gas prices,” while 61 percent said that their vote would be impacted when it was explained to them that “Kamala Harris supports abolishing ICE, the agency that arrests and deports rapists and murders.”
The poll comes after Harris suddenly replaced Biden as the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee, seemingly in response to widespread concern about Biden’s health. Harris is now set to officially become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee this month, with the Democratic National Convention starting on Monday, August 19th.

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