Reuters/Ipsos Core Political: Coronavirus Tracker (05/28/2020)
Washington, DC, May 28, 2020 – In the latest iteration of the Reuters/Ipsos Core Political, levels of concern surrounding the spread of coronavirus continue to drop among Republican registered voters. President Trump’s overall approval rating and his approval rating on coronavirus/COVID-19 are both stable. The biggest concern facing Americans is the economy and jobs, while healthcare is a distant second.
Two in five Americans approve of the job Donald Trump is doing as president (41%), unchanged from the last few weeks.
- A similar proportion of Americans approve of his handling of coronavirus (41%).
- When it comes to the economy and jobs, about half of Americans approve his handling of these issues (49% and 50% respectively).
One in three Americans cite the economy and jobs as the most important problems facing the country (35%), unchanged from last week.
- Republican registered voters are more likely to say they are concerned about the economy and jobs (42%) than their Democratic counterparts (30%).
- About one-fifth of Americans say that healthcare is their top of mind issue (19%). This number jumps to 28% when talking to Democratic registered voters, and drops to just 11% among Republican registered voters.
A majority of Americans remain concerned about the spread of coronavirus (77%). This number is unchanged from last week, but is the lowest number the Reuters/Ipsos tracker has recorded since we began tracking in early March.
- Republican registered voters’ level of concern has decreased 6 points from last week (72%), to 66% this week.
- Concern among Democratic registered voters remains stable, with 9 in 10 reporting they are concerned about the spread of the virus (91%).
About the Study
These are some of the findings of an Ipsos poll conducted between May 20-27, 2020 on behalf of Thomson Reuters. For this survey, a sample of 4,429 Americans age 18+ from the continental U.S., Alaska, and Hawaii were interviewed online in English. The sample includes 3,732 registered voters, 1,783 Democratic registered voters, 1,490 Republican registered voters and 339 independent registered voters. Weighting was then employed to balance demographics to ensure that the sample's composition reflects that of the adult population according to Census data and to provide results intended to approximate the sample universe. The precision of Ipsos online polls is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the poll is accurate to within ± 1.7 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, had all Americans been polled. The credibility interval will be wider among subsets of the population. All sample surveys and polls may be subject to other sources of error, including, but not limited to coverage error, and measurement error. The poll also has a credibility interval of ± 1.8 percentage points for all registered voters, ± 2.6 percentage points for Democratic registered voters, ± 2.9 percentage points for Republican registered voters, and ± 6.1 percentage points for independent registered voters.
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