Robert P. Jones, President and Founder of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), reveals survey results examining Americans’ views on Donald Trump and whether they consider him “a potentially dangerous dictator.” The findings highlight public concerns about presidential power, democracy, political leadership, and the state of American politics. What does the survey reveal about the divisions in American public opinion over Trump’s leadership and the future of democracy in the United States?
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00:00Yeah, you like the caption? Yeah, pretend I'm on the ballot, right? This has been Trump's closing argument down the
00:05midterm elections to like say just, I mean, I think he's literally said, just close your eyes and imagine that
00:11I'm on the ballot, right? When you cast your ballot. So we thought, well, how's that going to go? If
00:16that's in fact what people are doing?
00:18We had a question here. I want to be clear about this. EJ mentioned that sometimes we ask questions that
00:22we know have a lean to them and we do that on purpose. When we do that, we tend to
00:26pair them with another question on the other side, right? So we basically said, we're going to read you two
00:31questions. Tell us which of these that you agree with. That's what we did in this question. I've only got
00:35one side of the question up here to make the patterns clear, but we asked people, do you think that
00:41Trump is a potentially dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy?
00:46That's clearly a leaning question, right? Or do, or on the other side, do you think he's a strong leader
00:52who should be given the power he needs to make America great again? Like, so that was the statement on
00:57the other side. And whenever we give paired statements, it's also important. We actually rotate them randomly. So we never
01:03let, so response might get one, one respondent might get one first. The other response is going to get another
01:08one first to balance out whatever trailing effects it might be by getting one question in front of the other
01:13one.
01:15So we asked this question in 2025, and we've actually seen an uptick here among all Americans. A year ago
01:22it was 52%. Today it is 58% in the general population. And here are the partisan breaks on that.
01:29You'll see independents in particular have gone up from 56% to 64% on this question. Democrats were already
01:36pretty much at the ceiling. They've ticked up a tiny bit, but they're up around 90%.
01:40And one in five Republicans actually side with this question versus the other, the other question. But here you can
01:47see, you know, this, that independents are kind of up above the, the, the mean and a little closer to
01:52Democrats than they are to Republicans on this question.
01:56One thing I will point out here that, that I don't have a slide on, but a pattern to kind
02:00of watch out for where I'm going to flag in a minute.
02:02One interesting group in this election is Latino Protestants in the country. This is a group that has historically voted
02:09for Trump about six and 10 every time he's been on the ballot. Latino Catholics tend to vote about seven
02:14and 10 Democrat, but Latino Protestants tend to vote Republican.
02:17Republican. Latino Protestants on this question are now 62% saying that they are more likely to agree with the
02:25statement that Trump is a potentially dangerous dictator. So that's notable for a group that voted six and 10 for
02:29him in 2024.
02:31All right. Well, welcome everyone. Welcome back. I see a lot of familiar faces already. And many of you have
02:38been on this journey with us over the last 17 years. I can always keep up with it because the
02:43survey is one year older than my son.
02:46All right. So I kind of know right where we are. So you've seen that the hefty report. I'm sure
02:52you've all read it between the time you picked it up and now.
02:55But I'm going to hit the highlights. As you know, I move a little quickly. I will try to be
03:00clear, but I'm going to move quickly through it so we can get to our discussion.
03:03And I'm really just going to hit the highlights. There's so much here. This report spans 70 pages, all kinds
03:09of charts and graphs and insights.
03:11So there'll be a lot more to look at as you go. And again, the report is at P R
03:17R I dot O R G online.
03:19OK, so darkening mood. I'm going to start with that and where we are. This is going to maybe come
03:26as a surprise to no one here.
03:28Oh, just so you know. So this is a fairly large survey. It's over fifty five hundred respondents from a
03:35random probability sample here.
03:37Our margin for the full sample, one point six percentage points, plus or minus this longstanding partnership with Brookings Institution.
03:44And Melissa mentioned the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Wilbur and Hilda Glenn Family Foundation and the Unitarian Universalist
03:51Veach program at Shelter Rock who made this possible.
03:54So thank you for that. All right. So where are we here?
03:59This I'm going to open with the darkening mood thing. This is the percent of people in these groups who
04:03say the country is headed in the wrong direction. Right.
04:08So on the bottom, the economy is 76 percent of the country that says the economy is heading in the
04:14wrong direction.
04:16The way the U.S. is dealing with other countries, 70 percent wrong direction.
04:21The way the federal government is dealing with undocumented immigrants, 62 percent wrong direction. Right.
04:27So here this will not also surprise you. Here are Democrats on all three of those issues. Right.
04:33A nearly unanimous word across the board. Independence are actually not far behind independence on these measures.
04:41I think this is really notable. Eight in ten independence, for example, saying the economy is heading in the wrong
04:45direction.
04:47Here are Republicans much less. But I will I will point this out on the economy and the way the
04:53U.S. is dealing with other other countries.
04:55If we go back two years ago, we had the same question on here. The number of Republicans saying the
04:59country is heading in the wrong direction has, in fact, doubled. Right.
05:02So that's notable. I think here that this movement, particularly 52 percent of Republicans saying the economy is heading in
05:09the wrong direction, really notable.
05:11So what issues are driving the country as we heading into the midterm elections?
05:16We had a battery of ten critical issues on the survey.
05:20I'm only got here the ones that the either Democrats, Republicans or Independents said a much where a majority said
05:25they were critical.
05:26So I haven't put anything that didn't reach that majority point.
05:29Here are Democrats and put them up first. As you can see, cost of housing expenses, electing leaders of good
05:36moral character, opposing President Trump's agenda.
05:39All very, very tightly aligned in health care. Two thirds there on all these issues.
05:44The war in Iran also fairly high on the agenda. I'm going to drop independence here next.
05:49You can see they're also very strong on the top two, electing leaders of good moral character, cost of housing.
05:57The other one that really drops up another economic issue here is health care, a little bit lower on the
06:02other issues.
06:04Here are Republicans here. There are only three things that show up in majority territory.
06:10Agreeing cost of housing and everyday expenses. Interestingly enough, electing leaders of good moral character.
06:17And down at the bottom, immigration.
06:19Now on immigration, this is a critical issue and are largely still supportive of the President's immigration agenda.
06:25So this is kind of a positive. On the electing leaders of good moral character, it turns out when you
06:29look at it and look at support for Trump,
06:32there's very little difference between those who have favorable views of Trump and those who have unfavorable views of Trump
06:37on this.
06:38So it actually doesn't impact their view of Trump on this particular measure.
06:44All right. So we also have some measures here about economic populism and this conversation that is going on around
06:51wither socialism in the United States.
06:55And so, first of all, just on economic populism. And we have a whole battery of measures in the survey.
07:00So I'm just going to give you a couple here to kind of simplify it.
07:03One is just a straightforward evaluation. Nearly impossible today for working families to make ends meet.
07:08The second one is more about, like, is the system rigged?
07:11The economy is rigged against working Americans to benefit the rich and the powerful.
07:16You can see at the general population level, seven and ten. No difference. Like, agree on both of these accounts.
07:22I'm going to kind of run through here. And on this one, we're going to look at racial and ethnic
07:27differences.
07:28Again, African-Americans, eight and ten on both counts.
07:33Latinos, again, about three quarters on both counts.
07:37Multiracial Americans, it's a little lower on the rigged side, but still seven and ten, support AAPI.
07:43Very similar findings. And you can see it drops a little bit for white Americans.
07:47Interestingly enough, even if we look underneath white Americans at non-college and college-educated white Americans,
07:53the differences are actually not that big. And that's a little bit unusual that you would expect to see much
07:58bigger differences.
08:00We don't actually see that many, no large differences there.
08:04All right. So socialism, right? This has been something new.
08:09Again, there's always one great thing about this survey is that as the country moves, there's always questions you didn't
08:14really think you'd need to ask at some previous point.
08:17And this is one of them here. So we decided to kind of try to see if people were talking
08:23past each other.
08:24There's like one way to think of it is what do people mean when they use the word socialism?
08:27Like what's in their head when they're throwing that around?
08:30So we had two different definitions here.
08:33And which one do you agree with?
08:35Socialism is best understood as a system in which the government, statement one, provides benefits such as health insurance,
08:42retirement support and access to free higher education.
08:44Or statement two controls major parts of the economy, such as utilities, transportation, communications and banks.
08:52And as you could see here, there's quite a bit of difference between what Democrats and Republicans seem to mean
08:57when they use the word socialism.
08:59So Democrats overwhelmingly pick the first one.
09:02It's the government providing benefits to Americans.
09:06Republicans, on the other hand, if I put the other side of it up here, you can see two thirds
09:10think the other thing.
09:11It's the Republican, it's the government controlling parts of the economy.
09:16So part of what's going on is really just this very different perceptions of socialism when that word is thrown
09:21around without defining it.
09:23So that's really important to keep in mind.
09:25Here's the same question broken down by religion.
09:28And basically what you see is that the religious coalitions that vote tend to lean Democrat, line up with Democrats,
09:35and the religious coalition that tends to lean Republican line up slightly the other way.
09:40White evangelicals really here staking out the other side, very strongly saying they think it's the second thing, controlling parts
09:49of the economy.
09:51Now we also ask, that's a kind of an underlying conceptual question.
09:54We also ask a question about whether people saw different movements to be a serious threat to the country.
10:02And we asked about the Democratic Socialists of America, and we asked about the MAGA movement in this question, among
10:08some other things.
10:08But these two I wanted to kind of put up side by side.
10:11It turns out that, as a whole, Americans, almost half of Americans that say the Make America Great Again movement
10:19poses a serious threat to the country.
10:2136% say the same of the Democratic Socialists of America.
10:25This will not be surprising that this is what Republicans look like.
10:29But this is what independents look like on this question.
10:33A slim majority saying the MAGA movement, about a third, looks like there.
10:38And here's what Democrats look like on this measure.
10:41So, again, you can see, you know, here this kind of partisan split, right, on which of these movements are
10:46a threat to the country.
10:50All right.
10:50So, you know, the caption, yeah, pretend I'm on the ballot, right?
10:54This has been Trump's closing argument down the midterm elections to, like, say just, I mean, I think he's literally
11:00said, just close your eyes and imagine that I'm on the ballot, right, when you capture your ballot.
11:05So we thought, well, how's that going to go, if that's, in fact, what people are doing?
11:09We had a question here.
11:10I want to be clear about this.
11:11E.J. mentioned that sometimes we ask questions that we know have a lean to them.
11:16And we do that on purpose.
11:17When we do that, we tend to pair them with another question on the other side, right?
11:21So we basically said we're going to read you two questions, tell us which of these that you agree with.
11:25That's what we did in this question.
11:27I've only got one side of the question up here to make the patterns clear.
11:30But we ask people, do you think that Trump is a potentially dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before
11:36he destroys American democracy?
11:38That's clearly a leaning question, right?
11:41Or on the other side, do you think he's a strong leader who should be given the power he needs
11:46to make America great again?
11:47Like, so that was the statement on the other side.
11:49And whenever we give paired statements, it's also important we actually rotate them randomly.
11:53So we never let, so response might get one, one respondent might get one first.
11:58The other response is going to get another one first to balance out whatever trailing effects it might be by
12:02getting one question in front of the other one.
12:06Here's, so we asked this question in 2025.
12:09And we've actually seen an uptick here among all Americans.
12:12A year ago it was 52%.
12:15Today it is 58% in the general population.
12:18And here are the partisan breaks on that.
12:20But you'll see independents in particular have gone up from 56% to 64% on this question.
12:27Democrats were already pretty much at the ceiling.
12:29They've ticked up a tiny bit, but they're up around 90%.
12:32And one in five Republicans actually side with this question versus the other question.
12:37But here you can see, you know, that independents are kind of up above the mean and a little closer
12:44to Democrats than they are to Republicans on this question.
12:47One thing I will point out here that I don't have a slide on, but a pattern to kind of
12:52watch out for I'm going to flag in a minute.
12:54One interesting group in this election is Latino Protestants in the country.
12:59This is a group that has historically voted for Trump about six and 10 every time he's been on the
13:03ballot.
13:03Latino Catholics tend to vote about seven and 10 Democrat.
13:06But Latino Protestants tend to vote Republican.
13:10Latino Protestants on this question are now 62% saying that they are more likely to agree with the statement
13:16that Trump is a potentially dangerous dictator.
13:18So that's notable for a group that voted six and 10 for him in 2024.
13:23Here is favorability and I'm just going to show you the delta here, the difference in favorability between 2024 and
13:312026 across the kind of seven point spread of partisanship.
13:36You can see that among the stronger Republicans, not a lot of drop, but among the leaners, it's about a
13:4110 point drop in Trump favorability.
13:43Even among the leaners here independence, 20 point drop in Trump favorability over the last two years, not a lot
13:49of movement among Democrats because they were already overwhelmingly they were already in single digits favorability for Trump.
13:55But that independent number again in the middle is quite something 2020 points across the way.
14:00Here's the same question, same analysis, but with religious groups, notably white evangelical Protestants, his strongest defender voted eight and
14:0810 for him every time he's been on the ballot are now at 62% favorability.
14:12So even after a 10 point drop, they're still at 62%, as I should point that out, right?
14:16They're still overwhelmingly with the president here by a margin of more than two to one.
14:21But you'll see white non-evangelical Protestants dropped nearly 10 points.
14:24White Catholics, not that much.
14:26But here's that group.
14:28There's Latino Protestants on this on this question, right?
14:3120 points over the last two years.
14:34All right. So we're here.
14:35We're all thinking about the midterms.
14:36We're just about a dozen days out from the midterms.
14:41Do excitement first.
14:42So among those who are registered to vote and that we're looking looking here and say they're going to vote.
14:47So these are likely voters.
14:49We do see the Democrats have an excitement edge, right?
14:52That's how excited are you to be voting in the in the upcoming midterm elections here.
14:57You can see independence a little less.
14:59That's pretty typical.
14:59But looks like Democrats have a slight excitement edge, particularly among the very excited.
15:04It's forty six thirty one among the very excited people among Democrats here.
15:10And here is actually our election kind of ballot.
15:13You know, are you likely to vote for the Democratic candidate in your district or the Republican candidate in your
15:18district?
15:18And we're showing basically seven point spread between Democrats with Democrats holding an advantage.
15:25We did check this with with a more recent poll just to make sure it basically hasn't moved that much
15:30since we were since we were in the field.
15:33Here's Republicans, though.
15:34Eighty three percent saying they're going to vote for the Republican candidate.
15:37And I'm going to put them all three up here on the flip side.
15:40Eighty nine percent of Democrats saying they're going to vote for the Democratic candidate.
15:42But the independence here, you'll see about a 15 point advantage here between Democrats over over Republicans.
15:50So this bodes well, I think, for Democrats in the midterms election.
15:55Now, we've heard a lot about election integrity and worried about, you know, if the election is going to be
16:00free and fair and all of that.
16:03Here's a real divide in the country that we what is the biggest problem we're facing.
16:08Right. In terms of like election integrity, there are two very different ideas in the country today.
16:13The country is basically divided between these two these two things.
16:16Do you think the biggest problem is statement one, people casting votes who are not eligible to vote?
16:21In other words, voter fraud or statement to eligible voters being denied the right to vote.
16:27Right. And the country is basically split here.
16:29But you will see this massive partisan divide on this question.
16:33We have Republicans overwhelmingly here.
16:37You know, it's 70, 80, 80 and 10 saying that it is people casting votes are not eligible to vote.
16:43Independence, a little more divided, but leaning toward the eligible voters being denied the right to vote.
16:48And the Democrats overwhelmingly on the other side. Right.
16:51So we've got a partisan big divide about even what the biggest problem we're facing is in the upcoming election
16:57here.
16:58Here it is just divided by race.
16:59And the main thing I want to point out here is how different African-Americans look here.
17:03It's only 25 percent saying that the biggest problem is people casting votes not eligible to vote overwhelmingly saying it's
17:09no eligible voters being denied the right to vote.
17:12That is the biggest problem.
17:15That is the biggest problem.
17:15So here is a question that I think we should pay some attention to.
17:19If it's and we had two questions here that basically were if serious voter fraud is suspected, the president should.
17:26And to these are two separate questions, but I've got them here on the same chart.
17:30Order federal agents to seize the ballots and take over the vote counting or postpone the 2026 midterm elections for
17:36Congress.
17:36So we'll see what people say. Here's here's the one I 58 percent of Republicans say that they would be
17:44supportive of the president ordering federal agents to seize the ballots and take over the vote counting if serious voter
17:50fraud was suspected in the midterm elections.
17:53But only 34 percent would support postponing the midterm elections.
17:59Independents, not much support there at all.
18:01And Democrats, as you can see, less than one in five on either one of these questions.
18:05But that 58 percent number, I think, is one we should pay attention to.
18:09Now, in every election, there's always this language about the God gap historically between Democrats and Republicans.
18:16It tends to go the more you attend church, the more likely you are to vote Republican.
18:20I have been doing battle with this interpretation for a dozen years, at least.
18:24I'm going to continue that battle by just sort of like pointing this out that, yes, there are some truth
18:29to that statement, but it mostly pertains to white Christians.
18:33Right. That is where the God gap exists.
18:35It is true among white Christians that the more you go to church, the more likely you are to be
18:39to vote Republican.
18:40That's largely because it's also the more likely you are to be evangelical if you go to church more often.
18:45So you can see it up here in the top one.
18:46If you just look at the top.
18:47Yes, absolutely.
18:49Those who attend weekly or more only 19 percent likely to vote for the Democratic candidate attend seldom or never,
18:54though it's about half among white white Americans.
18:57Let's go and put the other side up. So that's clearly there.
19:00Among Latino voters, though, even if you look at the attend weekly or more, they're just basically divided with a
19:07slight lean toward Republicans.
19:09But so the pattern is there, but it's not really as high and it doesn't really get you even into
19:14majority Republican territory, even among the attend weekly.
19:17But note African-American voters like it is absolutely flat. Right. There's there's no so-called God gap among African
19:24-Americans.
19:25Attendance makes very little difference in in how they how they vote here.
19:30What I think is maybe more important for this election is what we've dubbed the empathy gap here.
19:36So many of you may have seen there is there's a number of books out now attacking empathy as a
19:42sin, as suicidal, as toxic.
19:45And these are I see some heads like people looking around like what?
19:49Yes. So this is actually happening in particularly an evangelical circle.
19:53So we decided to ask a question about this. And again, we did this kind of paired statement thing.
19:59Empathy is a foundational. So which of these do you agree with?
20:02Empathy is a foundational moral value that helps build a healthy society or empathy can become dangerous when it leads
20:08people away from building a society ground guided by God's truth.
20:13And we took that language out of this debate that's been happening here.
20:16And you can actually see there's kind of a partisan divide on this question.
20:20So these are people who agree with the first statement that empathy is a foundational moral value that helps build
20:24a healthy society.
20:26Republicans are still in majority territory agreeing with that, but it's low majority 54 percent.
20:31And you can see that it's actually not just about partisanship.
20:34It's actually about a connection to Trump and the MAGA movement. Right.
20:38That among the even among Republicans who have a favorable view of Trump, they're they're much less likely to agree
20:45with that statement than Republicans who have unfavorable views of Trump, which look basically like independence on question.
20:51So here's the other side of it. Right. You can see on among Republicans.
20:55It is thirty eight percent now nearly four and ten who picked the second statement.
21:01But that's not really where I mean among Republicans is you can see the traction where it's really gained traction
21:06is among white evangelical process because this is where that debate has really been gone.
21:11And now we find actually that today it is a majority. It's fifty four percent of white evangelicals who affirm
21:17that second statement.
21:19Right. That empathy has become can become dangerous when it leads people away from building a society guided by God's
21:25truth.
21:25They're the only religious group in the country that that is true for every other religious group is basically about
21:31two thirds.
21:31The other direction picking the empathy is foundational moral value.
21:35But that that shift are this movement.
21:40So that white evangelicals now are suspicious of the idea of empathy, I think, is really notable.
21:46I mean, well, I'm quite sure we'll hear more about that. It's also driven quite strongly by views on Christian
21:51nationalism.
21:52All right. In fact, it's fairly linear here that you kind of stair steppy that, you know, Christian nationalism adherence,
21:58those who believe that Christians should exercise dominion over the U.S., that U.S. law should be based on
22:04the Bible, et cetera,
22:05are much more likely to say that empathy is can become dangerous when it leads people away from building a
22:12society guided by God's truth.
22:13And you can see that the the further you go up, the more you reject that worldview, the more you
22:18are likely to embrace empathy as a foundational moral value.
22:22All right. Next last section here. I'll wrap up.
22:25One of the questions we've been asking really all the way back from the beginning is this question about what
22:30to do about immigrants who are living in the country illegally.
22:33All right. This is obviously the forefront of our politics today.
22:36We've been asking this question question all along.
22:37Our question has always given them three three options.
22:44We should provide them a path to citizenship, provided they meet certain requirements.
22:48We should not allow them to become citizens, but give them some kind of legal status or three.
22:52We should identify and deport them. And so we give all three of those options.
22:56This is the side of the first picking the first one.
22:59There should be a pathway to citizenship here.
23:02And you can see both among all Americans and independence, despite the way that this has been used as a
23:07political football,
23:08particularly over the last decade, it's remained fairly, fairly constant.
23:11But here's what's happened to party to part in the partisanship side.
23:17At its tightest in 2014, there was only a 14 point gap between Republicans and Democrats on this question of
23:24the path to citizenship.
23:25And it was about half of Republicans that said, yeah, that that seems to be the right the right way
23:30forward.
23:31That that 14 point gap has become a 42 point gap among partisans in our most recent survey.
23:39You just see this this yawning gap opening opening up here.
23:43And part of part of what's driving that is I'm going to do the same question just on white evangelical
23:48Protestants and show you all three options.
23:51The first one is allowed a way to become citizens.
23:54You can see the drop right back when you're first asking this.
23:57It was a majority of white evangelicals who said, yes, we should allow them to pass the citizenship here.
24:02Here is the the second option, the kind of permanent legal residence.
24:05That's never been a favorite option on this last one, though.
24:08Identify and deport them is where you can really see the difference.
24:11And I've put a trend line on here just so you can see it.
24:14But now that has become the preferred option among white evangelical Protestants that identify and deport them.
24:19It's gone from 30 percent to 47 percent here.
24:22So that has really been the sea change in Republican and white evangelical politics on this thing.
24:28One of the question here that we've been tracking about whether the federal government should detain immigrants who are in
24:33the country illegally in internment camps until they should until they can be deported.
24:37It's about a third of the country that agrees with that policy.
24:41But it is six and 10 Republicans, twice as many Republicans who agree with that policy.
24:46It's 28 percent of Democrats and it's only sorry, 28 percent of independents, 16 percent of Democrats.
24:51And this is one of those kind of asymmetric polarization things where independents much closer to Democrats and Republicans really
24:58in a very different place on this particular question.
25:02Oh, I don't know what happened to my labels here.
25:05That's odd.
25:05OK, well, I'll tell you what these are.
25:07I just rehearsed this.
25:08So we had we had a question where we asked about whether what kind of a country we want to
25:12be in terms of foreign policy.
25:13And the two statements were I prefer the US to be known as and the blue here is the statement,
25:20a reliable neighbor neighbor that only uses military force as a last resort.
25:24The green statement is a mighty nation that does not hesitate to use military force to defend its interests.
25:31Right.
25:31And so you can see the patterns here.
25:32This is Democrat, independent, Republican, Democrats overwhelmingly more than eight and 10 saying they'd like the US to be a
25:39reliable neighbor that only uses military force as a last resort.
25:42And this is six and 10 down here on the bottom of Republicans saying, no, we prefer it to be
25:47a mighty nation that does not hesitate to use military force to defend its interests.
25:55All right.
25:55Finally, I try to, as you know, I always try to find some little consensus or agreement to find our
26:03way here, give and then all the polarization.
26:05So here is there is really strong agreement about reform for what elected officials and for corrupt for anti-corruption
26:14measures here with elected officials.
26:16So the three things using public office to these are things that should be illegal, like not legal, using public
26:24office to financially benefit themselves or members of their family, drawing maps, voting maps to give their own political party
26:30an advantage.
26:30So gerrymandering by or selling individual stocks while in office.
26:33And there's one slide on here that does not have a big partisan divide right on there.
26:39And so it is overwhelmingly Democrats, Republicans, independents all say, yeah, all of this should be illegal and in kind
26:47of joining hands across the across the divides here on that.
26:50So I'm going to leave it right there and we will jump into the next phase of the program.
26:54So thank you.