According to an ABC News/Ipsos poll conducted less than three weeks before the midterm elections, voters trust Republicans more than Democrats on important subjects like the economy. The results highlight the difficult task facing the president’s party in igniting enthusiasm as people continue to view the economy negatively.
36 percent of Americans had more faith in Republicans than Democrats when it comes to the economy and gas costs, with the difference being 12 and 14 points, respectively.
According to the poll, which was completed last week and aired on Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Democrats continue to lead in voter confidence about abortion, climate change, Covid-19, and gun violence. However, a recent AWN/Morning Consult poll revealed that the economy and inflation are the two problems on voters’ minds the most, offering Republicans a late boost in political momentum.
During a Sunday interview with MSNBC, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stated that she did not “subscribe” to the notion that Americans don’t trust Democrats on the economy.
She claimed that Republicans “don’t have a solution to inflation.”
According to a Sunday poll by NBC News, interest in the midterm elections has reached record levels among Americans of both parties: The poll found that 70% of registered voters rated their interest in the forthcoming election as a “9” or “10” on a scale of 1 to 10, which is the highest result NBC has ever seen for a midterm poll at this time of year.
Republicans were more enthusiastic than Democrats; 78 percent of them expressed a strong curiosity, compared to only 69 percent of Democrats.
Republicans were inside the margin of error in the ABC poll when it came to managing immigration, with 35% of respondents indicating they had more confidence in them than in Democrats (32%).
In the midterm elections, the president’s party normally loses congressional seats, although some polling suggested Democrats were catching up to Republicans’ lead early in the cycle, particularly over the summer.
A random national sample of 686 persons participated in the Oct. 21–22 English and Spanish-language ABC News/Ipsos poll. Its sample error margin was plus or minus four percentage points.
The NBC News poll was conducted from October 14–18 among 1,000 registered voters. Overall, it had a margin of sampling error of 3.1 points, and among likely voters, it had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.47 points.
