What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending June 22, 2024
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports:
- President Biden ended the polling week with a daily job approval of 43%.
- Voters aren’t excited by the suggestion that President Joe Biden could be replaced as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate by California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
- Nearly half of voters believe Attorney General Merrick Garland is guilty of contempt of Congress, and most Republicans think he should be jailed for not complying with congressional subpoenas.
- Getting bullied in school should not be considered a normal part of childhood, according to a majority of Americans.
- Sending officials to prison for contempt of Congress is OK with a majority of voters, who consider it very important that public officials are held to the same standard of justice as other citizens.
- Nearly a quarter of those who got vaccinated against COVID-19 regret it, and a third agree with a medical expert’s condemnation of the vaccine as deadly.
- The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for June decreased to 90.8, down slightly from 91.1 in May.
- By a 30-point margin, more Americans say their personal finances have gotten worse than better, and less than a third of them expect their situation to improve in the months ahead.
- Graduates of Ivy League universities may think they’re better than everybody else, but Americans overwhelmingly disagree.
- Thirty-three percent (33%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction.
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