How Ambivalent Trump Voters Feel About Him Now

Authors John Halpin and Navin Nayak outline the results of a comprehensive national survey designed to measure public attitudes toward government in the Trump era.

Conventional wisdom depicts those Americans who cast their vote for Donald Trump as a zealous and rather unified group. In fact, a sizable subset of those voters, now that Trump has been in office for more than a year, say that they were conflicted in voting for him and express concern about key aspects of his presidency.

Can those voters be persuaded to move politics in a different direction in 2018 and 2020? What are their key issues, and how do they differ from the electorate at large?

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