Overview
- PRRI’s American Values Survey finds 62% say the country is headed in the wrong direction and 56% describe President Trump as a dangerous dictator.
- Quinnipiac reports Trump’s lowest score on the economy in its series, with 38% approval and 57% disapproval, including just 30% approval among independents.
- Majorities say recent actions have gone too far, including cuts to health care funding (60%), cuts to universities and research (55%), new tariffs (54%), and increased ICE funding (52%).
- Independents trend closer to Democrats on key issues, contributing to a record 68-point partisan gap on national direction in PRRI’s 5,543-person survey (±1.79 points).
- Other major polls echo the sour mood, with AP-NORC and Gallup also finding broad wrong-direction sentiment, as coverage points to tariffs and a government shutdown as contributing factors.