CBS News asked Americans over the past week, “If you could give the ‘State of the Union,’ which would you say describes the state of the country today?” We received some negative evaluations. “Divided” was the answer picked by most, followed by “declining” and “weak.” Fewer Americans picked “strong,” “prospering” or “united.” Click here to … Read more
Breaking down Super Tuesday 2024 by the numbers – CBS News Watch CBS News Both President Biden and former President Donald Trump are closing in on the required delegate count to secure their parties’ 2024 nominations. CBS News executive director of elections and surveys Anthony Salvanto joins “America Decides” to analyze Super Tuesday’s results and … Read more
Donald Trump still leads in New Hampshire, but Nikki Haley has consolidated much of the non-Trump vote and has emerged as the top alternative to him there. Among the top candidates, Haley gets the best marks on being seen as “likable” and “reasonable,” and she runs nearly even with Trump on being “prepared” — notable, … Read more
Inflation’s impact may even go beyond the immediate pressure on Americans’ pocketbooks, to a larger sense that it is stifling opportunity in America and the deeper sense that the nation’s economic troubles of recent years have been, as a whole, tougher than others it has faced in generations. So, even amid stronger jobs reports and … Read more
The conventional wisdom is that retail politics — the door-knocking, hand-shaking grassroots campaigning for months before the primaries — make Iowa and New Hampshire different from what we see nationally. And like a lot of conventional wisdom these days, that’s looking outdated. Today, national frontrunner and former President Donald Trump also leads the Republican primary … Read more
For nearly all of the Biden presidency, Americans have generally felt that things in the country are going badly — seven in 10 say so today — and related to this, they say that the economy is not in good shape. Sentiment on these two questions is very intertwined, as shown in the chart below. … Read more
Well, there’s no debate about this: Right now, the Republican Party would easily renominate Donald Trump for 2024. And it’s not close. The former president now holds his largest lead over his rivals in our polling amid his recent legal troubles. In fact, most of his voters cite those troubles as yet one more reason … Read more
America’s response to this week’s indictment of Donald Trump is providing a window into more than just how Americans view his alleged actions per se — but also into what they think it means for democracy itself. Half the nation believes Trump tried to stay in office beyond his term through illegal and unconstitutional means. … Read more
Never mind the macro stats for the U.S. economy — Americans are hot, and very much still bothered by high prices, with recent reports about GDP growth, stock gains and a strong labor market apparently providing cold comfort. At least so far. Instead, most describe the economy as “uncertain,” along with calling it bad, and “struggling” … Read more