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New Poll Shows Black Lives Matter Is Considerably More Popular With Americans Than MAGA

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Participants in a new NBC poll were asked to give approval ratings for , among other things, both the Black Lives Matter movement and the "MAGA" movement. Turns out the BLM approval is considerably higher, and even more so when those who are "neutral" about the groups is added. 58 % of Americans, according to this poll, have a view of Black Lives Matter that is positive or neutral compared with 39% of Americans who have a positive or neutral view of MAGA.

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Professor Principal

1 author JohnRussell 3 years ago

‘MAGA movement’ widely unpopular, new poll finds

President Donald Trump is still unpopular and so is the political movement created in his image, according to a new national NBC News poll .

The Make America Great Again, or ‘MAGA,’ movement, which takes its name from Trump’s first campaign slogan, was the least popular individual or group tested in the new survey. Just 24% of Americans have positive views of the movement, while 45% voice negative views.

These numbers come as President Joe Biden made Trump — and his movement — the centerpiece of his re-election launch video on Tuesday.

Biden in his video that “MAGA extremists are lining up to take those bedrock freedoms away.” Biden and his fellow Democrats often use the term “MAGA” as a catch-all to describe pro-Trump Republicans who embrace the former president’s more extreme positions, including his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

A slight majority of Republicans — 52% — view the MAGA movement positively, as well as 53% of those who define themselves as conservative.

Independents also rated the movement negatively, with just 12% viewing it positively, while 45% say they have negative views of the movement.

The movement received net-positive ratings across only a few political and demographic groups, finding support among those who make up the Republican base, including Americans who are white, less educated and live in rural areas.

More than a third of rural Americans have positive views of the movement, the highest of any geographic subgroup. And the movement received its highest mark from white Americans, with a 29% positive rating, of any racial subgroup.

Men over the age of 50 were evenly split, with 36% voicing positive views and 37% voicing negative views. And a combined 58% of those with a high school degree or less and those who attended technical or vocational schools view the movement positively.

On the flip side, the movement received its highest negative ratings from groups that make up the Democratic base: the higher educated, younger people, people of color, particularly Black people, and those who define themselves as liberals.
The NBC News poll was conducted April 14-18 of 1,000 adults — including 861 reached by cell phone — and it has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points.

Professor Principal

2 author JohnRussell 3 years ago

www.nbcnews.com /politics/2024-election/nbc-news-poll-nearly-70-gop-voters-stand-trump-indictment-investigatio-rcna80917
NBC News poll: Nearly 70% of GOP voters stand behind Trump amid indictment and investigations

By Mark Murray 6-8 minutes 4/23/2023

A whopping two-thirds of Republican primary voters say they stand behind former President Donald Trump and dismiss concerns about his electability, despite his recent criminal arrest and other legal investigations into his past conduct, a new national NBC News poll finds .
That — along with his double-digit lead over his nearest potential GOP rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — makes Trump the clear front-runner in the early race for the Republican presidential nomination.

The Republican Party’s continued enthusiasm for Trump stands in contrast to an anxious nation’s displeasure with how the 2024 race is shaping up. Substantial majorities of Americans don’t want Trump or President Joe Biden to run for president in 2024, setting up a potentially divisive and uninspiring general-election rematch between the two men, with Biden expected to launch his re-election bid in the coming days.

And half of those who don’t want Biden, 80, to run say the president’s age is a “major” reason why.

Trump is 76 years old.

“At this stage, 2024 is shaping up to be a sequel of the 2020 election,” said Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research, which conducted this poll with Republican pollster Bill McInturff and his team at Public Opinion Strategies. “Sequels are frequently hits at the box office, but apparently not at the ballot box.”

McInturff, the GOP pollster, said: “It’s clear that people do not want a Biden-Trump rematch.”

The NBC News poll — conducted April 14-18 — comes after Trump’s arrest and arraignment in New York City over charges that he falsified business records to conceal damaging information in a hush-money case.

It also comes as prosecutors and grand juries in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., examine the former president’s alleged interference in Georgia’s 2020 election results, his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and his handling of classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago home.

Despite the indictment against him and the other investigations into his conduct, Trump leads the NBC News poll’s first national trial heat of the Republican presidential race.

Forty-six percent of Republican primary voters pick Trump as their first choice, while 31% select DeSantis as the 2024 candidate they favor.

They’re followed by former Vice President Mike Pence at 6%, and by former South Carolina Gov. and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C. (who’s exploring a 2024 bid), and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who are all tied at 3%. Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy has 2%.

Meanwhile, DeSantis is the second choice of 33% of GOP primary voters, Trump is the second pick of 20%, and Haley is the second choice of 14%.

Yet what also stands out in the poll are the nearly 70% of Republican primary voters who say they stand behind Trump despite the various investigations he’s facing.

Sixty-eight percent of GOP primary voters agree with the statement that the investigations into Trump are politically motivated and are designed to stop him from being president again, and that they must support him now to stop his opponents from winning.

That’s compared with 26% who agree with the opposite statement — that it’s important to nominate a different candidate who won’t be distracted and who can focus only on beating Biden in the general election.

Yet among all voters — not just Republicans — 52% believe that Trump is being held to the same standard as anyone else accused of doing what he did as he faces charges in New York. Another 43% disagree and say he’s being unfairly targeted.

Majorities don’t want Biden, Trump to run for president in 2024

The NBC News poll also comes just days before Biden’s expected announcement for re-election.

According to the survey, 70% of all Americans — including 51% of Democrats — believe he should not run for a second term.

Half of those who say Biden shouldn’t run cite his age as a “major” reason why.

“The president needs to reflect the age group in the country. They should both retire,” said one Democratic poll respondent from Washington state, also referring to Trump. “It is someone else’s turn.”

As for Trump, 60% of Americans — including a third of Republicans — think the former president shouldn’t run in 2024.

41% say they’d vote for Biden in general election

The NBC News survey finds a combined 41% of registered voters saying they’d definitely or probably vote for Biden in the general election, versus 47% who say they’d vote for the eventual Republican nominee.

By party, 88% of Democratic voters say they’d definitely or probably vote for Biden, compared with 22% of independents and only 3% of Republicans.

In addition, 41% of all adults in the poll approve of Biden’s job performance, while 54% disapprove — down from Biden’s rating of 45% approve, 50% disapprove in January.

By party, 83% of Democrats approve of how Biden has done his job, versus 30% of independents and 6% of Republicans.

“President Biden’s numbers are not where they need to be at this stage,” said Horwitt, the Democratic pollster, noting the president’s struggles with independents.

Still, Biden remains more popular than Trump: 38% of adults have a positive view of the current president, versus 48% with a negative view (-10).

That’s compared with Trump’s 34% positive, 53% negative rating (-19).

“Yes, Joe Biden has work to do, but he still is viewed less negatively than Donald Trump,” Horwitt added.

58% say abortion should be legal

Finally, the national NBC News poll shows nearly 6 in 10 adults — 58% — saying abortion should be legal, either always (38%) or most of the time (20%).

By contrast, a combined 38% believe abortion should be illegal, either with exceptions (32%) or without exceptions (6%).

These results are essentially unchanged from an NBC News poll released a year ago, in May 2022, when 60% said abortion should be always or mostly legal, versus 37% who said it should be illegal with or without exceptions.

The NBC News poll was conducted April 14-18 of 1,000 adults — including 861 reached by cell phone — and it has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points.
The margin of error for the poll’s 800 registered voters is plus-minus 3.46 percentage points, and the margin of error among the 292 Republican primary voters is plus-minus 5.99 percentage points.

Professor Quiet

3 Ozzwald 3 years ago

New Poll Shows Black Lives Matter Is Considerably More Popular With Americans Than MAGA

This is wonderful news.

BLM = Protecting lives, protesting wrongful deaths.

MAGA = Racism, threats, domestic terrorism.

Professor Participates

4 Greg Jones 3 years ago

"Biden and his fellow Democrats often use the term “MAGA” as a catch-all to describe pro-Trump Republicans who embrace the former president’s more extreme positions, including his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen."

Millions of former Trump voters don't support him any longer. That number is likely to grow as the campaigns ramp up.

Not sure what point you are trying to make, but the polls now are meaningless, too much can happen in the next 12 months.

Primaries get going in February, polls a year from today could tell a entirely different story. The Democrats are less than enthusiastic about Biden...and the possibility of Harris's fat ass sitting in the Oval Office scares them....

Professor Quiet

4.1 Ozzwald replied to Greg Jones @4 3 years ago

Millions of former Trump voters don't support him any longer. That number is likely to grow as the campaigns ramp up.

Who is currently the republican front runner?

Professor Principal

4.1.1 author JohnRussell replied to Ozzwald @4.1 3 years ago

Trump already thinks he's home free as far as the nomination goes. Why shouldn't he? A new poll shows almost 70% of Republicans approving of him as the nominee.

Sixty-eight percent of GOP primary voters agree with the statement that the investigations into Trump are politically motivated and are designed to stop him from being president again, and that they must support him now to stop his opponents from winning.

Professor Quiet

4.1.2 Ozzwald replied to JohnRussell @4.1.1 3 years ago

A new poll shows almost 70% of Republicans approving of him as the nominee.

And yet a number of commenters here feel that democrats unjustifiably keep him in the news.

Professor Principal

4.1.3 author JohnRussell replied to Ozzwald @4.1.2 3 years ago

no accounting for ignorance and denial

Freshman Silent

5 RU4Real 3 years ago

I wonder if this is what the majority of MAGA-Trump people match this old Reuters chart
What MAGA means to Trump voters (thomsonreuters.com)

I always wondered what made America so great in the past that we should go back again.

A bit off topic but if Biden is sooooo old and he should not run simply b/c of that, wouldn't the same go for Trump? And from the posting, if the President should reflect the age group of the country, doesn't Biden and Trump reflect it as America's age group is OAF?

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