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President Donald Trump’s approval rating among Hispanic and Latino voters improved in the latest national Emerson College poll. A plurality of Hispanic and Latino voters still disapproved of the president. His net approval among the group stood at a net -2.1 points. But that marks an improvement from the pollster’s December 2025 survey, when Trump’s net approval among Hispanic and Latino voters was -29.7 points. Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment via email.

President Donald Trump’s second term has been a debacle, according to a damning new CNN poll released Friday. A majority of Americans polled in the survey -- 58% -- characterized Trump’s first year of his second term as a “failure,” according to the poll. Just 42% of respondents said Trump’s second term has been a success. There were virtually no silver linings for the president in the survey. A plurality of respondents said Trump “made things worse” on several issues he outlined in his inauguration speech, while a lion’s share of those polled said the president has “gone too far”...

More than half of Americans in a survey released Friday rated President Trump’s first year back in office as a “failure.” The CNN/SSRS survey found that 58 percent of U.S. adults said 2025 was a failure for the president on a number of issues. Another 42 percent said the year was a “success,” and about 1 percent had no opinion. Overall, 61 percent of respondents said they disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job. Of that number, 35 percent cited personal behavior — including putting self-interests above the nation, bullying and being disrespectful, erratic behavior, allegations of racism,...

A new Yahoo/YouGov poll finds Americans split over whether they approve (40%) or disapprove (38%) of the U.S. military operation that toppled Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro earlier this month. Nearly a quarter (22%) say they’re unsure how to feel.But the public is much more certain about what they want — or rather, don’t want — to happen next. With Maduro gone, President Trump has said that the United States is "going to run the country” of Venezuela from afar, insisting that "we’re in charge" now.“Only time will tell” how long U.S. control of Venezuela lasts, the president mused in a...

WBCA NCAA Division III Coaches’ Poll — 1/6/2026 The WBCA NCAA Division III Top 25 women’s basketball coaches’ poll, with teams’ RECORDS THROUGH SUNDAY in parentheses, total points based on 25 for first place through one point for 25th, ranking in last week’s poll, and first-place votes received. NOTE: The next poll will be published Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026.

President Trump received some rare good polling news Monday as a new survey shows him with his highest approval rating since early fall. The poll of likely voters by InsiderAdvantage shows 50% approve of the job Trump is doing while 41% disapprove, with the remaining 9% undecided. Monday’s results mark the highest raw approval rating for the president in an InsiderAdvantage survey since late September, when 52% of respondents approved of his performance.

We've seen some interesting polling numbers over the past week. First, there was the congressional Democrats polling at their lowest number ever in a Quinnipiac poll, at 18 percent approval. As a CNN data nerd termed it, that's "lower than the Dead Sea." Then they made things worse by deciding to scuttle the DNC autopsy report they had been working on as to why they lost in 2024, making it clear they wanted to keep their heads in the sand. Now, the approval numbers have jumped up again for President Donald Trump, according to a new InsiderAdvantage poll.The poll of...

President Donald Trump got a dose of good news on the political front Monday, as a new InsiderAdvantage survey of likely voters showed his job approval back at the 50% mark, his strongest showing in nearly three months. InsiderAdvantage asked respondents, "What is your opinion of the job performance of President Donald Trump?" That garnered a 50% approval rating: -50% approve of Trump's job performance -41% disapprove -9% undecided The result represents Trump's best approval rating in the InsiderAdvantage series since late September, when the poll registered 52% approval. It also produced a 9-point net approval, the widest positive spread...

President Donald Trump enjoys a 50 percent approval rating, with a net approval rating of plus 9 points, according to the latest polling from InsiderAdvantage.The national poll of 800 likely voters, conducted on Saturday, finds that 50 percent of respondents approve of the president’s performance 11 months into his administration. Another 41 percent disapprove of the job Trump has done, while 9 percent are undecided.The poll shows that a substantial majority of men give Trump positive marks, while most women disapprove of his performance, continuing a trend seen in polling ahead of the 2024 election.Of the men surveyed, 59 percent...

Majorities of Israelis oppose granting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a presidential pardon in his criminal trial…according to a new survey conducted for Zman Yisrael, The Times of Israel’s Hebrew-language sister site, this week. In response to the question, “Do you support or oppose Netanyahu’s request for a presidential pardon without admitting guilt or expressing remorse?” 53.2 percent of respondents said they oppose it, while 42.4% said they support it, and 4.4% said they don’t know. On the issue of ultra-Orthodox draft exemptions, the respondents were asked if they support or oppose the law proposed by MK Boaz Bismuth: 53.8% said...

Reading political tea leaves three years before an election is a bit like predicting the weather for your 2028 summer vacation—entertaining, perhaps, but utterly useless for packing your bags. Yet here we are, with breathless headlines announcing that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has “taken the lead” over Vice President JD Vance in a hypothetical matchup. The progressive left is practically popping champagne.For those who haven’t followed their trajectories, the contrast between these two couldn’t be sharper. AOC burst onto the scene in 2018, unseating a longtime Democratic incumbent and quickly becoming the face of democratic socialism in America. The Green New Deal,...

Americans mostly trust the nation’s highest court to do what’s best, presumably by scrupulously following the laws enshrined in the 238-year-old U.S. Constitution. But that trust could be tested in coming months, as the Supreme Court decides whether President Donald Trump’s tariffs pass constitutional muster, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows. When U.S. Supreme Court Justices are sworn in to office, they vow to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” With this in mind, the I&I/TIPP Poll this month asked voters simply: “How much confidence do you have in the U.S. Supreme...

NEW 2026 POLL: It's Close but Trump TUMBLES? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXQTfhcbJ-c&t=433s

The following is an excerpt from a book translated into English: Arbel, Tobi. The Story of Muhammad Abu Sarari (Heb.). Israel, Ra'anana: Docostory, 2000. link From the events of '36, I have a childhood memory. Then the gangs were active and terrorized the Jews. The one who organized them was Hassan Salama. The gang members wanted to cause harm to the Jews who bought agricultural goods from the Arabs. They would lie in wait in the wadis and on the roads for Arab merchants who smuggled vegetables and fruit to the Hatikva market. If they caught the smugglers, they would...

A new poll of likely Republican primary voters shows U.S. Sen. John Cornyn’s support continuing to decline ahead of the 2026 Texas GOP primary, with Cornyn now falling into third place in a three-way matchup. The poll, conducted November 21–22 by Stratus Intelligence, surveyed 857 likely Republican primary voters in Texas. It found Attorney General Ken Paxton leading with 36 percent, followed by U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt at 26 percent, and Cornyn at 25 percent. Fourteen percent of voters remain undecided. Cornyn’s favorability rating has also declined. The survey shows him at 35 percent favorable and 51 percent unfavorable, with...

Across party lines, big majorities say the administration needs to explain what the U.S. intends regarding any action, and that it has not done so clearly yet.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 47% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty-one (51%) disapprove. The latest figures include 30% who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing and 43% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of - 13. Latest Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhf0wSDcp8Y

Democrats still don’t have a leader to guide them out of the wilderness. Seismic victories in a series of off-cycle elections on Tuesday showed the power of an energized liberal base all across the country — and teased at the potential for the Democratic Party to storm back to power. But those wins did not immediately crown a singular leader who can harness that energy. There are still dozens of competitors for the throne. The POLITICO Poll, conducted by Public First in the closing weeks of the election, found a complete lack of consensus among 2024 Kamala Harris voters on...

National media polls are continuing to distort President Donald Trump's support, John McLaughlin, a key pollster for the president's 2024 campaign, told Newsmax on Monday. "Absolutely not," McLaughlin said when asked on Newsmax's "Finnerty" if he trusts this year's surveys. "They're doing the same thing; they're trying to run down Donald Trump on purpose," he added. He said his firm's latest poll showed Trump with a 51% approval rating and 46% disapproval but added a Washington Post-Ipsos survey was "a poll of adults polluted with nonvoters." "They weighted it down to 30%," he said. "That's 20 points less than we...

Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are prepared to bolt from the Big Apple if socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday’s mayoral race — potentially setting the stage for the largest population flight in US history, an alarming new poll warned early Monday. Around 765,000 people of the 8.4 million residents who call New York City home are preparing to leave, with about 9% of New Yorkers sharing that they would “definitely” leave the city if Mamdani is elected the 111th mayor, the Daily Mail reported, citing a survey conducted by J.L. Partners. If those residents were to leave, it...