Americans Don’t Buy Progressive Agenda



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I.
 

FOX News Poll (5/23-25/21):

Issue                                                                            Yes         No

Need Photo ID to Vote (4/21 Poll)                          77%        19%

Crime Up in Past Year                                               73%        17%

Trust in Police: Great Deal/Fair Amount                72%

Trust in Police: Not Very Much/None                                     27%

Don’t Trust Federal Government                              60%        34%

Disapprove Biden on Immigration                            57%        38%

Disapprove Biden on Border Security                      56%        40%

Disapprove Biden on Foreign Policy                        52%        43%

Open Schools in Fall without Restrictions              51%        (other)

Build a Wall                                                                  50%        46%


Major Threat (selected list)
            
unemployment                                                        61%

illegal immigration                                                 59% 

big government                                                      56% 

how children educated                                         56%

 

II.

A just completed Harris Survey for the nonpartisan group “No Labels” covered 10 congressional swing districts.* 

It found:

  • Voters in all districts less likely to support those voting to spend a new $4 trillion.
  • Voters less likely to support those voting to raise taxes by $1.8 trillion.
  • Voters less likely to support those voting to expand the deficit by $2 trillion.
  • 2/3rds of voters concerned that raising taxes could cost the economy jobs.
  • 60% fear new corporate taxes will hit those beyond the wealthy.
  • Voters concerned Democrats favor a tax-and-spend welfare state while avoiding country’s big problems.

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* = GA-07, ME-02, MN-03, NV-04, NH-01, NJ-05, NY-03, OR-05, PA-17, VA-07


III.

Newt Gingrich has a list of  "American Majority” views that reject what Democrats currently offer the people. He plans to use list to help Republicans recapture the House next year.  

The Gingrich list:

  • 90% of Americans want people who illegally enter the country to be tested for COVID-19 before they are released.
  • 87% want mandatory deportation for noncitizen gang members.
  • 85% of Americans favor religious freedom.
  • 81% of Americans favor school choice for every child.
  • 81% want photo identification to vote.
  • 80% of Americans want to fund fully police and law enforcement.
  • 75% of Americans oppose taxpayer-provided giveaways (welfare, health care, free college) for people illegally in the country.
  • 74% favor mandatory life in prison for cop killers.
  • 72% favor mandatory prison sentences for anyone attacking police.
  • 66% of Americans favor restoring pro-family, gender-based language, reversing the House’s erasing “mother, father, son, daughter” and other gendered terms from House documents.



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