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Close to 3 in 4 voters who supported Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election believe that Democrats on Capitol Hill should challenge President Trump more.
In The Economist/YouGov poll, 74 percent of Harris voter respondents said that congressional Democrats challenge the president “too little,” while only 2 percent of the same group said they challenge him “too much.” Eighteen percent said they challenge the president “about the right amount,” and 6 percent were unsure.
Overall, 40 percent of all respondents said congressional Democrats challenge Trump “too little,” while 32 percent said the opposite. Fourteen percent said Democrats on the Hill challenge the president “about the right amount,” and 14 percent were unsure.
The poll coincides with the rise of anti-establishment political figures on the left in the last year, with democratic socialist and progressive candidates seeing success in their Democratic primary challenges against more establishment figures.
The Economist/YouGov poll also comes alongside slumping poll numbers for Trump, whose approval rating sat at 40 percent and disapproval rating at 56.6 percent on Tuesday afternoon.
Trump and the GOP are also facing a rocky political environment as they head into this year’s midterms, with an unpopular war in Iran, polls expressing Americans’ economic concerns and controversy swirling around the administration’s handling of immigration.
The Economist/YouGov poll took place from July 31 to Aug. 3, featuring 1,609 respondents and a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.
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