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Polls and Public Opinion

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 22, 2025 a Truth Social post
“I have just gotten the highest poll numbers of my ‘political career.’”
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 24, 2025
Larry Kudlow
Larry Kudlow
stated on March 4, 2025 on-air remarks
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is “polling very well. It’s very popular.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 6, 2025
Social Media
Social Media
stated on December 1, 2024 X, formerly Twitter
“Trump won 18-to-24-year-olds in Wisconsin."
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • January 6, 2025
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on May 19, 2024 TV interview
Says in his three election campaigns, the early polls were "wildly incorrect, all three times."
Mostly True
By Hope Karnopp • June 5, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 2, 2024 a speech
“Eighty-two percent of the country understands that (the 2020 election) was a rigged election.”
False
By Paul Specht • March 7, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 31, 2023 an interview with ABC News
“There are polls that also say I have great approval ratings.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 8, 2023
Chris Coons
Chris Coons
stated on July 30, 2023 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
“Consumer confidence is the highest it’s been in years.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2023
Elise Stefanik
Elise Stefanik
stated on February 9, 2023 a Tweet
53% of Americans made aware of the Hunter Biden laptop story would have changed their vote in 2020.
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • February 25, 2023
Dennis Prager
Dennis Prager
stated on November 8, 2021 an interview with Newsmax
"During the AIDS crisis, can you imagine if gay men and intravenous drug users … had they been pariahs the way the non-vaccinated are? But it would've been inconceivable."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2021
Terri Bryant
Terri Bryant
stated on September 21, 2021 a radio interview
“75% of Republicans have been vaccinated” against COVID-19 in Illinois.
False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • October 3, 2021
Jeffrey Zients
Jeffrey Zients
stated on May 9, 2021 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
“The research showed … that confidence overall in the vaccines increased after the pause” to review the safety of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 14, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 6, 2021 a Facebook post
"New poll indicates” Joe Biden’s “approval at 11%, the lowest approval rating of any president in American history."
Pants on Fire!
April 8, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 19, 2021 a speech
“The vast majority of the American people” support Biden’s $1.9 trillion rescue plan, “including a majority of Republicans.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • February 22, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 3, 2020 an interview with CNN
"People have lost faith in the ability of the vaccine to work. Already, the numbers are really staggeringly low."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2020
NumbersUSA
NumbersUSA
stated on September 13, 2020 a Facebook post
“Nearly 2 out of 3 Americans want to reduce legal immigration from 1 million per year down to 500,000 or less.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • September 21, 2020
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on June 23, 2020 a Telemundo interview
“80% of the American people support our Dreamers. Over 70% think they should have a path to citizenship, and that's Democrats, Republicans, independents.”
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • June 26, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 2, 2020 a Tweet
Michael Bloomberg “did not poll well as mayor in handling crisis!”
Half-True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 11, 2020
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on February 20, 2020 an MSNBC interview
“The majority of hunters now want universal background checks, the majority of Trump voters.”
True
By Bill McCarthy • February 20, 2020
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on January 9, 2020 public comments
National polls have “never predicted who will be president from our party. Carter was in the single digits a few months before caucuses. Bill Clinton was. Obama — 20 points behind in the national polls roughly.”
True
By Brooklyn Draisey • February 6, 2020
Erica Smith
Erica Smith
stated on December 6, 2019
Says she's beating Democratic opponent Cal Cunningham and is also the first black, female US Senate candidate to be beating an incumbent Senator (Thom Tillis) in "every poll out of the gate."
Half-True
By Paul Specht • January 10, 2020
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