Polls

Reuters -  President Donald Trump’s expansion of executive power, including his unprecedented push to send troops into U.S. cities to combat crime and his attempt to seize control of aspects of the economy, has left Americans uneasy, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found.....

On crime, only 32% of Americans said they would feel safer with armed soldiers deployed to large cities in their state, the poll found. Some 62% of Trump's fellow Republicans were warm to military patrols in big cities, but only one in four independents felt the same way, as did just one in 10 Democrats. 

Only one in five respondents said they often feel unsafe because of high crime in their area, and just a third of people overall said they avoid big cities because of crime, suggesting that a majority of voters view crime as a remote phenomenon that does not affect them personally. About half of Republicans said they steer clear of large cities for fear of becoming victims...

The Reuters/Ipsos poll found just 16% of Americans overall - including 2% of Democrats and 34% of Republicans - thought it would be good for the president to have power to set interest rates and tell companies where to manufacture products. 

Trump’s overall approval rating remains stable at 42%, according to the poll, with nine in 10 Republicans supporting him...

U.S. voters overwhelmingly want their president to respect the authority of federal courts, with nine in 10 Democrats and seven in 10 Republicans saying the president should abide by judicial rulings even if he disagrees with them.

Asked if they were willing to give up some checks and balances in the U.S. democratic system to have a government that can take action faster, 39% of Republicans said they would take that offer, compared to 45% who rejected it. Only 17% of independents - and the same share of Democrats - liked the idea....

Some 29% of people in the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll agreed with a statement that "America is the greatest country in the world," down from 38% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in November 2017, during Trump's first term in office. 

The share of Democrats who agreed fell to 12% from 26% and among Republicans the share dropped to 55% from 59%.

Newsweek -  In a recent survey by CardRates.com, 47 percent said tariffs had pushed them deeper into credit card debt, a figure that rose to 53 percent among millennials and 56 percent among Gen Zers.