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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
77 percent say they would not consider joining Elon Musk third party: Survey
Most American voters said they would not consider joining an Elon Musk-founded third party, according to a new poll. When asked in the Quinnipiac University poll if they would 'consider joining a third party, if Elon Musk created it, as an alternative to the Republican and Democratic parties, or not,' 77 percent of registered voters surveyed said they would not, while 17 percent said they would join or would 'consider' doing so. After previously being a part of President Trump's administration and appearing to be close with the president and other Republicans in the first half of the year, Musk has since targeted the president and members of the GOP over multiple issues. Musk said earlier this month he had officially formed the America Party, a third political faction to go against Democrats and Republicans. 'By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it. When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy,' Musk said previously on his social platform X. 'Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom,' he added. As tensions continue between Musk and Trump, most registered voters in the Quinnipiac poll did not seem to be pleased with the president's actions. When asked if they 'approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president,' 40 percent said they 'approve' and 54 percent said they 'disapprove.' The Quinnipiac poll took place July 10-14 featuring 1,290 people who identified themselves as registered voters; it had plus or minus 2.7 percentage points as its margin of sampling error. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
RNZ News
10-07-2025
- Politics
- RNZ News
NZ First now third most popular party - Taxpayers' Union-Curia Poll
NZ First leader Winston Peters. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone The latest political poll shows the coalition parties reasserting their lead, driven by a surge in support for New Zealand First, now the third most popular party. The latest Taxpayers' Union-Curia Poll, published on Thursday, shows NZ First leapfrogging both the Greens and ACT for the first time since the poll began in 2021. NZ First registered 9.8 percent, up 3.2 points compared to the last poll in June. Just behind, the Greens received 9.4 percent, up 1.2 points, while ACT came in at 9.1 percent, unchanged. The poll also puts National back in the top spot, up 0.4 points to 33.9 percent, with Labour faltering on 31.6 percent, down 3.2 point. Te Pāti Māori had a 0.2-point increase to 3.5 percent. On those numbers, the coalition parties would secure 65 seats - up three from last month - compared to 57 seats for the opposition. The surge in popularity for NZ First comes after its leader Winston Peters handed over the deputy prime ministership to ACT's David Seymour at the end of May. Voters' enthusiasm for both prime ministerial contenders remained muted with just 19.7 percent naming National's Christopher Luxon as their preference and just 19.6 percent naming Labour's Chris Hipkins. In third sport was Peters, on 9.3 percent, and then Green co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick on 7 percent. Seymour was in fifth on 5.7 percent. Asked for their top issues, respondents overall gave the cost-of-living top billing at 21.6 percent. The economy registered at 19.1 percent, with health in third place on 13.3 percent. The poll was conducted by Curia Market Research for the New Zealand Taxpayers' Union and has a maximum margin of error of +/- 3.1 percent. It surveyed 1000 adult New Zealanders - 780 by phone and 220 by online panel - from Wednesday 2 July through to Sunday 6 July, The results are weighted to reflect the overall voting adult population in terms of gender, age, and area, 7.9 percent were undecided on the party vote question. Curia is a long-running and established pollster in New Zealand, which has resigned its membership from the Research Association New Zealand (RANZ) industry body. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
Daily Mail
04-07-2025
- Business
- Daily Mail
Poll: Britons deliver verdict on Starmer's first year in power
Voters have answered with a resounding 'NOTHING' when asked what has been the biggest achievement of Keir Starmer 's first year in power, a new poll shows. More in Common asked voters to offer their one or two-word responses to Labour 's best and worst actions of the party's first 12 months in power to create a word cloud. And it was pretty brutal, with most people unable to thing of anything good. More in Common's director Luke Tryl said it was 'one of the most stark word clouds we've seen - the Winter Fuel Allowance drowns everything else out'. The other major problem to stand out for voters was immigration, with more than 20,000 people already having crossed the English Channel in small boats this year, a record. Sir Keir is facing Labour dissent, economic uncertainty and spiralling conflict abroad as he marks a year in Number 10. The Prime Minister led his party back into power with more than 400 MPs on July 4 last year – clinching a majority just short of Sir Tony Blair's landslide in 1997. But with a daunting in-tray of problems including a stuttering economy, creaking public services and global volatility, his political honeymoon period was short-lived. His personal popularity is now the lowest of any British premier after their first 12 months in office, political scientist and polling guru Professor Sir John Curtice said. 'There were pretty clear potential weaknesses before they even started, and most of those weaknesses have basically just been exposed over the course of the last 12 months.' Sir John said part of the problem lay in what he described as a failure of narrative in setting out the Government's vision for change to the public. 'They're portraying themselves as a repair gang rather than the builders of a new Jerusalem. Pessimism doesn't necessarily go down very well,' he said. 'The thing with Starmer is, he's a brilliant prosecution lawyer… But prosecution lawyers present cases that have been (put together) by someone else. The problem is that as a political leader you've got to prosecute your own case. 'Maybe he needs new personnel? Either he's got to learn to do it himself or get someone in to do it for him.' That verdict was echoed by some dissenting voices within Labour ranks, where there is lingering discontent among rebels over the Government's Welfare Bill despite Number 10 offering major concessions on the legislation. The Government saw off the threat of a major Commons defeat over the legislation on Tuesday after shelving plans to restrict eligibility for the personal independence payment (Pip), the main disability benefit in England. 'I think he really needs to think about why he wants to be a Labour Prime Minister and what is it he actually cares about,' one long-serving Labour MP said. They said Tuesday had marked 'the lowest point' in Sir Keir's premiership so far and raised questions about his authority, warning that backbenchers may now feel emboldened to demand further U-turns elsewhere. Sir John said that the Government's challenges in passing legislation were unsurprising in light of the broad but fragile coalition of support on which Labour built its election victory, securing 412 seats on just 35% of the vote. That means many MPs defending narrow majorities and raises the prospect of 'a large body of people who are nervous about their political futures,' he said.
Irish Times
04-06-2025
- Business
- Irish Times
Dutch voters welcome collapse of right-wing coalition, according to poll
The first political opinion poll taken after the collapse of the Netherlands ' right-wing coalition government on Tuesday says only 14 per cent of voters believe it achieved anything worthwhile during its 11 months in office. The coalition of Geert Wilders ' Freedom Party, the centre-right VVD, agrarian BBB and progressive New Social Contract collapsed after Mr Wilders made good on a threat to pull out of the coalition unless the other parties backed tougher immigration reforms. King Willem-Alexander cut short a state visit to the Czech Republic to return to The Hague on Tuesday to accept the resignation of prime minister Dick Schoof, who will remain in a caretaker capacity until the outcome of a general election in October. The Schoof government took office last July. The poll by current affairs television programme EenVandaag surveyed 16,117 respondents in the hours immediately after Mr Wilders abandoned the coalition. READ MORE It gave the government – racked by relentless infighting and stung by external criticism from the start – an overall satisfaction rating of 3.6 out of 10. Eighty-three per cent of the responses to the opinion poll were negative, while only 14 per cent were positive. Given its troubled tenure, most voters – 65 per cent – welcome the coalition's demise. Non-Freedom Party voters blame Mr Wilders personally, frequently describing him as 'childish'. By contrast, his own supporters say he was 'obstructed' by the other coalition parties and needs a new mandate to govern as prime minister – a post all the parties' leaders agreed to forego last year. [ Geert Wilders pulls party from Netherlands government Opens in new window ] As a result, only 16 per cent of respondents said they would like to see the same parties work together again. Almost three-quarters – 72 per cent – agree with Labour-GreenLeft leader Frans Timmermans that elections are the only practical way to achieve a newly stable government for the fifth-largest economy in the euro zone. As the inevitability of an autumn election sank in, parliament began a post-collapse debate on Wednesday morning, full of angry recriminations. The mood of MPs wasn't helped by the prospect of a nationwide train strike on Friday that has been overshadowed by the political crisis. Arriving for the debate, Mr Wilders said he would keep up the pressure for tighter immigration. 'Let's start now: close asylum centres, don't let people in, and don't allow family migration.' However, Christian Democrat leader Henri Bontenbal responded that after the 'chaos' of an 11-month 'political experiment' the mood now was for a return to 'stability'. 'Society is longing for normality and for politicians who deliver more – not less – than they promise.'
