Republican voters have a rosier view of the entire state of the country compared to four years ago then Democrats are joining this week’s Republican National Convention (RNC), a new poll finds.
A CBS News poll of registered voters nationwide found that 75 percent of Republican-identified voters say the country is better now than it was four years ago; just 25 percent of GOP respondents said it was not. In general, just 35 percent of registered voters say the country is better, while 65 percent said it was not.
When asked what gave them the best confidence that America was in a better place than in 2016, 82 percent of GOP voters put their trust in the president’s leadership, while 70 percent cited the national economy and 64 percent cited their own family finances.
Seven in ten GOP voters who said the country was better than it was in 2016 also responded that Democrats out of power were a major reason for the country’s success, suggesting deep partisan hostility within the president’s hardline followers.
Republican voters seem to be very out-of-step with the American voting population in general when it comes to perceptions of the health of the economy, as well as the effectiveness of the American coronavirus response. 67 percent of GOP voters said the economy was in a “good” place, compared to 35 percent of all voters, while 73 percent of Republicans said the U.S. COVID-19 prevention effort “went well.” compared to 62 percent of all voters who said the answer “went bad.”
The CBS News poll was conducted between August 19-21 with a sample of 2,226 registered voters nationwide. The margin of error of the interview is 2.4 percentage points.
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