Polls

Newsweek - President Donald Trump’s approval rating has fallen below water in every major swing state for the first time since taking office, according to a new set of state-level polls. The latest Morning Consult survey shows the president’s net approval is now negative across all seven battlegrounds expected to decide the 2026 election—Pennsylvania (-2), Michigan (-5), Wisconsin (-8), Arizona (-2), Georgia (-1), Nevada (-3), and North Carolina (-3). 

Newsweek -  A new John Zogby Strategies survey conducted on October 12 found that 80 percent of Republican voters approved of Trump’s performance, down from 85 percent in August. Similarly, a YouGov poll published on October 13 showed 84 percent of Republicans expressing approval, compared with 88 percent in mid-September. Meanwhile, the latest Quantus poll recorded approval among Republicans at 86 percent, a 3-point drop from 89 percent in late September.

MSN -  U.S. Jews increasingly say they are hiding their identities in a country where they believe they continue to face significant antisemitism and where slightly less than 1 in 5 feel very safe, a Washington Post poll finds.

The nation’s 6 million Jewish adults also are skeptical of President Donald Trump’s campaign to fight antisemitism on college campuses, with nearly two-thirds suggesting he is conducting it for other reasons, according to the poll. Jews widely disapprove of Trump’s performance overall, the results show.

The poll was conducted in early September, before Trump helped negotiate a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war and the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian detainees.

Nearly half of U.S. Jews say there is “a lot” of antisemitism in the U.S. and a similar share say there is “some” — numbers almost identical to the results of a Pew Research Center survey conducted five years ago.

A third say they don’t feel safe in the United States and two-thirds report seeing antisemitic content online at least once a month. At the same time, a large majority — 73 percent — say they have not been the target of antisemitic remarks online or in person in the past year.

In one clear development, the poll finds 42 percent of Jewish Americans say they’ve avoided publicly wearing, carrying or displaying anything that might help people identify them as Jewish in the past year. That is up from 26 percent who said that to a similar question in a 2023 poll by the American Jewish Committee and from 23 percent in 2022 but similar to 40 percent tracked by the group last year.