Gallup: Immigration, 'Poor Leadership' Top Issues for Americans
By Ward Clark | 2:00 PM on March 30, 2024
The bad news just keeps piling up for those involved with President Biden's reelection campaign. In the latest blow, Gallop has released polling results on issues Americans name as most important, and it's something of an understatement to note that these are issues that aren't exactly Joe Biden's strong points.
Amid the heightened numbers of migrants entering the United States at the Southern border and discord in the Middle East, Americans have grown more anxious about immigration and terrorism over the past year. At the same time, with the inflation rate down from 2023, public concern about that issue has eased. Nevertheless, more Americans still say they worry about inflation than any of 13 other issues rated in the new survey.
Gallup finds a slightly different rank-order of concerns with its “most important problem facing this country" question. For the second straight month, immigration leads Americans’ unprompted answers about what most ails the nation, with inflation also figuring prominently.
Gallup, in this report, first focuses on answers to this question:
Next, I’m going to read a list of problems facing the country. For each one, please tell me if you personally worry about this problem a great deal, a fair amount, only a little or not at all?
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