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46% to 45%
A new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds Joe Biden edging Donald Trump among registered voters, 46% to 45%. Among likely voters, it’s Biden 49%, Trump 45%. In a five-way race, Trump edges Biden, 42% to 40%, followed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at 12%, Cornell West at 2% and Jill Stein at 1%.
30
“Republicans have launched more than 30 investigations into the State Department since taking power in 2023, an unusually high number that is fueling partisan tensions,” Politico reports. “Democratic lawmakers and State Department officials say this particular chapter of the growing partisan rancor on Capitol Hill is affecting U.S. foreign policy: It distracts U.S. diplomats from their jobs.”
$50 billion
“The U.S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine, with the massive outlay being repaid with the windfall profits from sovereign Russian assets that have been frozen – and are accruing interest — mostly in Europe,” Bloomberg reports.
113,000
CNN: “Truth Social’s average number of daily active U.S. users on iOS and Android dropped by 19% year over year in April to about 113,000.”
64%
Time: “Across nearly every faith and in all but five states, a majority of Americans support at least some access to abortion. That’s a major conclusion of a new massive survey of 22,000 people from the Public Religion Research Institute. … In the seven battleground states that are expected to define the presidential race—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—a collective 64% of residents say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.”
83,500
WyoFile: “There are currently about 83,500 fewer registered voters in the state than at the end of 2022, a roughly 28% drop, according to data released Wednesday by the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office. … The sizable dip follows a mandatory voter purge that was likely magnified by a major shift in voter turnout between the 2020 and 2022 elections.”
50% to 48%
A new NPR/PBS/Marist Poll finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump nationally in the presidential race, 50% to 48%. When third party candidates are added as choices, the race is tied at 42% each.
34% to 34%
A new CNN poll finds most of the country was divided over whether Donald Trump is being treated more harshly (34%) or more leniently (34%) than other criminal defendants
51%
A new Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll find 51% of registered voters “in the seven states that will decide the 2024 presidential election said they either strongly or somewhat support aid to Israel. … That’s down 11 percentage points from November, when 62% of respondents said they supported the aid.”
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.
