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POLLS: Pres. Musk Is Very Unpopular
Americans don't like his drastic, haphazard chainsaw cuts to their government

February 21, 2025February 21, 2025 Jon Ponder

Based on newly released survey results, MAGA party leader Donald Trump, who lives and breathes polling, has reason to regret selling his presidency to billionaire South African immigrant Elon Musk. A series of polls marking the first full month of the Musk presidency reveals widespread public disfavor with the drug-addled unelected president:

A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Feb. 20, 2025, found Pres. Musk with a -16 approval: 55 percent unfavorable, 39 percent favorable.
The Pew Poll released Feb. 19 found Musk’s approval at -12: 54 percent unfavorable, 42 favorable.
The Economist/YouGov poll released Feb. 19 showed Musk in better shape with just a -6 approval: 49 percent unfavorable, 46 percent favorable.
In the latest Quinnipiac University poll, Musk’s role in government had a -12 approval rating: 54 percent approve, 42 percent disapprove.

The Economist/YouGov poll found that Musk’s drastic, haphazard chainsaw approach to downsizing the U.S. government by firing hundreds of thousands of federal workers has -17 approval: 51 percent disapprove, 34 percent approve.

Harris Holds National Lead Among Likely Voters

September 3, 2024 Buck Banks

$48% to 43%

A new USA Today/Suffolk poll finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump nationally among likely voters, 48% to 43%. Also interesting: In June, 73% of Biden supporters predicted he would win; now 87% of Harris voters say she will, a jump of 14 points. Also in June, 88% of Trump supporters said he would win. Now 76% do ? a majority, but still, a drop of a dozen points.

Harris’s Lead Grows

August 25, 2024 Buck Banks

50% to 43%

A new Fairleigh Dickinson University poll finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump nationally by seven points among likely voters, 50% to 43%.

Harris Passes Trump in National Poll

July 30, 2024 Buck Banks

47% to 46%

A new Morning Consult poll finds Kamala Harris edging Donald Trump nationally in the presidential race, 47% to 46%. Perhaps more interesting is that Harris’s favorability is now 50% to 46% — up from 43% to 51% last week.

Pollster Says Trump Has Edge in Electoral College

July 11, 2024 Buck Banks

2 points

Eli McKown-Dawson: “Even if Biden fully makes up his 3-point deficit in the national polls, he’ll still be favored to lose the election. Specifically, our model thinks that the Electoral College will be biased in Trump’s favor by about 2 points in 2024. … This means that Biden is only favored to win the election if he wins the popular vote by 2 points or more; he’s the underdog otherwise.”

Presidential Race Is Still Tight

July 11, 2024 Buck Banks

41% to 40%

A new Data for Progress poll finds Donald Trump edging Joe Biden in a six person race, 41% to 40%. They are followed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at 10%, and minor party candidates Cornel West, Jill Stein, and Chase Oliver each at 1%. In a two-way race, Biden is slightly ahead of Trump, 47% to 46%.

2%

A new University of North Florida poll in Florida finds Donald Trump leading Joe Biden, 47% to 45% among likely voters. About 4% said another candidate, 2% said they do not plan on voting, and 3% said they do not know, or refused to answer.

Marist Poll: Biden Leads Trump Nationally

April 22, 2024 Buck Banks

51% to 48%

A new Marist poll finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump nationally among registered voters, 51% to 48%. In a multi-candidate field, Biden is up by five percentage points against Trump, 43% to 38% among registered voters, followed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at 14%, Cornel West at 2%, and Jill Stein at 2%.Among those who definitely plan to vote, Biden leads Trump 46% to 39% in this same multi-candidate field.

$48% to 43%

50% to 43%

A new Fairleigh Dickinson University poll finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump nationally by seven points among likely voters, 50% to 43%.

47% to 46%

A new Morning Consult poll finds Kamala Harris edging Donald Trump nationally in the presidential race, 47% to 46%. Perhaps more interesting is that Harris’s favorability is now 50% to 46% — up from 43% to 51% last week.

2 points

41% to 40%

A new Data for Progress poll finds Donald Trump edging Joe Biden in a six person race, 41% to 40%. They are followed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at 10%, and minor party candidates Cornel West, Jill Stein, and Chase Oliver each at 1%. In a two-way race, Biden is slightly ahead of Trump, 47% to 46%.

2%

A new University of North Florida poll in Florida finds Donald Trump leading Joe Biden, 47% to 45% among likely voters. About 4% said another candidate, 2% said they do not plan on voting, and 3% said they do not know, or refused to answer.

51% to 48%

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Don Moynihan

“Musk’s behavior is emblematic of tech’s most heinous figures, who now feel emboldened to enter the analog world with the same lack of care and arrogance with which they built their sloppy platforms.”

— Kara Swisher

“If they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do everything — including cut off their energy with a smile on my face. …They rely on our energy, they need to feel the pain. They want to come at us hard, we’re going to come back twice as hard.”

— “Speaking Monday at a mining convention in downtown Toronto, Ontario Premier Doug Ford doubled down on threats to cut electricity exports to U.S. border states if the tariffs go through,” the Toronto Sun reports.

“The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin. Every single day you hear from the National Security Advisor, from the President of the United States, from his entire national security team, Kremlin talking points.”

— Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), on CNN.

“America’s abrupt turn from moral beacon and defender of the free world is unsurprising, given the fundamental immorality of the Trump administration. If you have the morality of a gangster, you will behave like a gangster.”

— Noah Smith

Numerati

31

+$1 trillion

“The U.S. debt and deficit problem worsened during President Donald Trump’s first month in office, as the budget shortfall for February passed the $1 trillion mark even though the fiscal year is not yet at the halfway point,” CNBC reports.

172,000

240,000

-2.8%