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On the generic ballot test, 51% support the Democratic candidate, while 43% support the Republican. Six percent are undecided.   ()    “President Trump’s job approval has been relatively steady in the past several months, with about 2 in 5 likely voters approving of the President, driven by consistent ratings among Republicans, 86% of whom approve of the president,” Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, said. “A majority of voters, 56%, disapprove of the job Trump is doing, including 66% of independents and 92% of Democrats. Men are now split: 48% approve and disapprove of the president, while women disapprove by a 30-point margin, 62% to 32%.” (POLITICAL POWER RANKER 819)    The survey asked a series of hypothetical 2028 presidential matchups between the top two candidates in the Republican primary, JD Vance and Marco Rubio, and the top five polling Democratic primary candidates, Pete Buttigieg, Gavin Newsom, Jon Ossoff, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Kamala Harris. Rubio performs better than Vance on multiple ballot tests, while Buttigieg, Ossoff, and Newsom perform strongest among the Democratic candidates.  ()    Buttigieg is the only candidate to hold the same five-point lead against both Vance and Rubio, while Ossoff and Newsom’s leads tighten against Rubio, to 3 and 2 points respectively. Harris leads Vance by four points, but trails Rubio by five points. Twenty-three percent of voters consider themselves supporters of the Democratic Socialists of America, 60% do not, and 17% are unsure.  A version of this question was asked by CBS News in (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-nearly-3-in-10-support-tea-party/) August 2010  among U.S. adults: 29% were supporters of the Tea Party movement, 54% were not supporters, and 17% were unsure.  “Forty-six percent of Democrats consider themselves DSA supporters, while 30% do not and 25% are not sure,” Kimball said. “This is concentrated among younger members of the party: 53% of Democrats under 50 support the DSA compared to 37% of Democrats over 50 who support.”  The economy is the top issue for 37% of voters, followed by threats to democracy at 16%, healthcare at 16%, and immigration at 13%.  Forty-nine percent of voters oppose U.S. military action in Iran, while 36% support it. Since (https://emersoncollegepolling.com/march-2026-national-poll-47-oppose-us-military-action-in-iran-40-support/) March 2026 , those who oppose military action in Iran increased two points, from 47% to 49%, while those who support it decreased four points, from 40% to 36%. Seventeen percent of voters think the actions of the killer of the United Healthcare CEO are acceptable, while 72% think they are unacceptable. Eleven percent are neutral. The share of voters who find it acceptable has not changed since (https://emersoncollegepolling.com/december-2024-national-poll-young-voters-diverge-from-majority-on-crypto-tiktok-and-ceo-assassination/) December 2024 , when the question was asked following the assassination, while the number of those who think it is unacceptable increased four points, from 68% to 72%. In December 2024, the poll found 41% of voters under 30 found the actions of the killer to be acceptable; this figure now sits at 39%.  Methodology  The Emerson College Polling national survey was conducted August  16-17, 2026. The overall sample of U.S. likely voters, n=1,000, has a credibility interval, similar to a poll’s margin of error (MOE), of +/- 3 percent. The data sets were weighted by gender, education, race, age, party registration, and region based on U.S. Census parameters and voter file data.  It is important to remember that subsets based on demographics, such as gender, age, education, and race/ethnicity, carry with them higher credibility intervals, as the sample size is reduced. Survey results should be understood within the poll’s range of scores, and with a confidence interval of 95% a poll will fall outside the range of scores 1 in 20 times.  Data was collected by contacting a probability-based panel of voters provided by Consensus Strategies using MMS text-to-web, with additional panel interviews provided by PureSpectrum. All respondents were recruited using customized links that prevent responses from anyone outside of the poll’s sample frame. Panel responses were matched to the Aristotle voter file using respondents’ full name and ZIP code. The survey was administered using QuestionPro, and the survey was offered in English.  All questions asked in this survey with exact wording and order, along with full results, demographics, and cross tabulations can be found below. (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J-I00agiGtqUBW5oG2sd-qUZd77luT0-/edit?gid=1885928462#gid=1885928462) FULL RESULTS       Share:     Related Posts  (https://emersoncollegepolling.com/pennsylvania-survey-on-data-centers-artificial-intelligence/) Pennsylvania Survey on Data Centers & Artificial Intelligence  The Pennsylvania survey was sponsored by RealClearPolitics Institute of News & Information (RCPINI). 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