As of June 2022, a survey of U.S. adult citizens found that 74 percent of respondents felt that Donald Trump was actively involved in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election that he lost to Democratic opponent Joe Biden.

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According to exit polling in the 2020 Presidential Election in the United States, ** percent of surveyed voters making less than 50,000 U.S. dollars reported voting for former Vice President Joe Biden. In the race to become the next president of the United States, ** percent of voters with an income of 100,000 U.S. dollars or more reported voting for incumbent President Donald Trump.

According to exit polling in ten key states of the 2024 presidential election in the United States, ** percent of voters with a 2023 household income of ****** U.S. dollars or less reported voting for Donald Trump. In comparison, ** percent of voters with a total family income of 100,000 to ******* U.S. dollars reported voting for Kamala Harris.

Following the inaugural presidential debate of 2024, many voters across the country expressed disappointment Biden's performance, arguing that he is no longer fit to serve as president. According to a poll taken in July, over half of Americans thought Biden should step aside and allow another Democrat to run for president, including almost 20 percent of Democrats who thought he should definitely step down.

As of March 2024, some ** percent of Americans were of the opinion that Joe Biden's view on abortion are very liberal, while a further ** percent said his views are somewhat liberal. In contrast, the majority of Americans think that Donald Trump's views on abortion are very or somewhat conservative.

Since 1824, when the popular vote was first used to determine the overall winner in U.S. presidential elections, the share of the population who participate in these elections has gradually increased. Despite this increase, participation has never reached half of the total population; partly due to the share of the population below the voting age of eighteen, but also as many potential voters above the age of eighteen do not take part, or are ineligible to vote. For example, in the 2016 election, approximately twenty million U.S. adults were ineligible to vote, while over 94 million simply did not participate; in this election, Donald Trump won the electoral college with 63 million votes, which means that 19.4 percent of the total U.S. population (or 27.3 percent of eligible voters) voted for the winning candidate. Development throughout history While the figures for the 2016 election may appear low, over 42 percent of the total population participated in this election, which was the third highest participation rate ever recorded (after the 2008 and 2020 elections). In the first election decided by a popular vote in 1824, only 350 thousand votes were cast from a total population of 10.6 million, although this increased to over four million votes by the 1856 election, as restrictions that applied to non-property holding white males were gradually lifted. Participation levels then dropped during the Civil War and Reconstruction era, as those who lived in Confederate states could not vote in 1864, and many white southerners were restricted or discouraged in the following election. Although universal suffrage was granted to black males in the wake of the Civil War, the majority of black Americans lived in the southern states, where lawmakers introduced Jim Crow laws in the late 1800s to suppress and disenfranchise the black vote, as well as poor white voters. The next major milestone was the introduction of women's suffrage in 1920, which saw voter participation increase by seven million votes (or seven percent) between the 1916 and 1920 elections. Between the 1910s and 1970s, the Great Migration saw many black Americans move away from the south to northern and western states, where they faced fewer obstacles when voting and greater economic mobility. This period of black migration began to decline in the 1960s and 1970s, during which time many Jim Crow laws were repealed in the south, through legislation such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Female participation also grew gradually, and has exceeded male voting participation in all elections since the 1980s. The minimum voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 in all states in 1971, although this seemingly had a minimal impact on the short-term trajectory of voter participation. Recent elections The 1992 election was the first in which more than one hundred million votes were cast, which was almost 41 percent of the total population. All elections since 2004 have also had more than one hundred million votes cast, which has again been more than forty percent of the total population. Another key factor in the increase in voter participation is the fact that people are living longer than ever before, and that those aged 65 and over have had the highest turnout levels since 1992. While some figures may be subject to change, the 2020 election set new records for voter turnout. Despite the global coronavirus pandemic, which many thought could cause the lowest turnout in decades, a record number of voters cast their ballots early or by mail, setting a new record of votes just shy of 160 million. In the 2020 election, Joe Biden and Donald Trump received 81.3 million and 74.2 million votes respectively, both beating Barack Obama's previous record of 69.3 million ballots in 2008. 2024 then saw a decline in the number of votes cast, with over three million fewer votes than in 2020.

As of March 2024, ** percent of Republican respondents thought that Joe Biden's view on abortion are very liberal. This was significantly higher in comparison to ** percent of Democrat respondents and ** percent of Independent respondents who were of the same opinion.

According to a survey conducted toward the end of April 2025, 39 percent of American respondents thought Trump's performance during his first 100 days back in office were better than Biden's performance during his first 100 days.

Following the inaugural presidential debate of 2024, many Democrats across the country expressed disappointment in Biden's performance, arguing that he was no longer fit to serve as president. In the following weeks, Biden’s polling and campaign financing had fallen to record lows, forcing Biden and his aides to come to terms with the fact that his chances of winning the election were slim. On July 21, he announced that he would step aside, endorsing Kamala Harris to take his place. Seeing as how the path forward remains uncharted territory, Americans are not certain exactly how this will impact the election in November. Just over half of Republicans think it strengthen's Trumps chances of winning, compared to 22 percent of surveyed Democrats.

As of the third quarter of 2025, 16 percent of people in Great Britain indicated that they liked the current U.S. President Donald Trump, unchanged from the previous quarter. In this provided time period, Donald Trump was viewed most positively at the start of 2025. By contrast, Trump was the least popular in the first quarters of 2021 and 2022, when just 14 percent of people said they liked him. Trump returns to power in 2025 Despite indications of a close contest between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, Donald Trump won the 2024 Presidential Election quite comfortably, winning 312 electoral votes to Harris' 226. Like in the previous U.S. election in 2020, a rematch between Donald Trump and Joe Biden looked certain until Biden announced his decision to step down in favor of his Vice President Kamala Harris in July 2024. Earlier in the year, Donald Trump, saw off his rivals in the Republican primaries of 2024, with previous favorite Ron DeSantis dropping out after finishing second in Iowa. Trump invited for second state visit On February 27, 2025, the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer invited Donald Trump to a state visit to the UK for the second time, with this first state visit taking place in 2019. Before the 2019 visit, 46 percent of people in Britain supported it, compared with 40 percent who wanted the visit cancelled. As of March 2025, the share of people who supported a second state visit stood at 43 percent, with 42 percent opposing it. Although relations between Starmer and Trump have remained positive, an MP from the Scottish National Party called for the visit to be cancelled due to the ongoing fallout between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

As of August 2020, ** percent of respondents in the United States thought that Donald Trump was racist, while ** percent of respondents thought that Joe Biden was racist.

Illinois has taken part in 51 U.S. presidential elections since 1820, and has correctly voted for the winning candidate on 42 occasions, giving a success rate of 82 percent. The Prairie State has always voted for a major party candidate, choosing the Democratic-Republican Party's nominees in its first two elections, before voting for the Democratic Party's candidate 25 times, and the Republican candidate 24 times since 1832. After joining the union in 1818, Illinois has generally voted for each party in phases, and has been considered a safe Democrat state for the past three decades. In the 2020 election, the Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, won the popular vote in Illinois by a 17 percent margin. The Land of Lincoln Since 1955, Illinois' state slogan has been "The Land of Lincoln", as a tribute to President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was born in Kentucky, but moved to Illinois in his early 20s, where he emerged as a prominent politician and lawyer before ascending to the presidency in 1861. Lincoln is not the only U.S. President to have resided in Illinois when taking office; his successor, Ulysses S. Grant, was an official Illinois resident when he took office in 1869 (although he had not lived there since before the Civil War), and Barack Obama began his legal career in Chicago in the 1980s, before eventually becoming a State Senator in 1997, and a U.S. Senator from Illinois in 2005. Ronald Reagan is the only president to have been born in Illinois, although he moved to California in his twenties and held public office there. A number of losing candidates also resided in or were born in Illinois, including 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who was born in Chicago. Electoral votes In the nineteenth century, Illinois' population boomed as Chicago grew to be one of the largest and most industrialized cities on the continent, and the early twentieth century saw over half a million black Americans move to Illinois during the Great Migration. With this population boom, Illinois' designation of electoral votes grew from just three in the 1820s, to 29 between 1912 and 1940; this was the third highest in the country after New York and Pennsylvania. Since the Second World War, changes in the U.S. population distribution has meant that Illinois' share of electoral votes has gradually decreased, standing at twenty votes since 2012, and expected to drop to 18 in the 2024 election.

According to a survey conducted among Italians on Joe Biden's potential performance as President of the U.S.A., ** percent of them answered that, if elected, he would be an average President. On the other hand, ** percent of respondents stated that he would be a great or good President. Finally, only **** percent of the respondents declared that Joe Biden's performance as U.S. President would be poor or terrible.

According to a survey conducted between July 9 and July 11, 2022, ** percent of Americans thought that President Joe Biden was highly responsible for the current trend in the U.S. unemployment rate. This is compared to ** percent of Americans who believed that President Biden had little responsibility for the unemployment rate. The United States has seen a decrease of *** percent in the unemployment rate over the past year.

According to a survey conducted between July 9 and July 11, 2022, 45 percent of Americans thought that Joe Biden was highly responsible for the current trend in the inflation rate. This is compared to 26 percent of Americans who said President Biden did not have a lot of responsibility for the current inflation rate.

Inflation in the U.S. Global events in 2022 had a significant impact on the United States. Inflation rose from 1.4 percent in January 2021 to 9.1 percent in June 2022. Significantly higher prices of basic goods led to increased concern over the state of the economy, and the ability to cover increasing monthly costs with the same income. Low interest rates, COVID-19-related supply constraints, corporate profiteering, and strong consumer spending had already put pressure on prices before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Despite rising wages on paper, the rapid growth of consumer prices resulted in an overall decline in real hourly earnings in the first half of 2022.

How much control does Joe Biden have over inflation? The bulk of economic performance and the inflation rate is determined by factors outside the President’s direct control, but U.S. presidents are often held accountable for it. Some of those factors are market forces, private business, productivity growth, the state of the global economy, and policies of the Federal Reserve. Although high-spending decisions such as the 2021 COVID-19 relief bill may have contributed to rising inflation rates, the bill has been seen by economists as a necessary intervention for preventing a recession at the time, as well as being of significant importance to low-income workers impacted by the pandemic.

The most important tool for curbing inflation and controlling the U.S. economy is the Federal Reserve. The Reserve has the ability to set, raise, and lower interest rates and determine the wider monetary policy for the United States – something out of the president’s control. In June 2022, the Reserve announced it would raise interest rates 0.75 percent for the second time that year – hoisting the rate to a target range of 2.25 to 2.5 percent – in an attempt to slow consumer demand and balance demand with supply. However, it can often take time before the impacts of interventions by the Federal Reserve are seen in the public’s day-to-day lives. Most economists expect this wave of inflation to pass in a year to 18 months.

Surveys from swing states conducted the day before the 2024 election indicated an extremely close contest between Trump and Harris. Trump held a slight lead over of Harris in the majority of swing states.

According to a survey conducted just over a month after her defeat in the 2024 presidential election, approximately ** percent of surveyed Americans had a favorable opinion of Vice President Harris. Of those, ** percent had a very favorable opinion of Harris.

A survey conducted in 2021 found that around 29 percent of Americans felt that President Biden's infrastructure plan would help them. 28 percent of people did not think the infrastructure plan would affect them. The deal, eventually passed as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law or Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, would see record investment in the country's transportation infrastructure, as well as broadband, and environmental resilience projects.

According to an October 2024 survey, young Americans were much more likely to vote for Kamala Harris in the November 2024 presidential elections. Of those between the ages of 18 and 29, 60 percent said they were planning on voting for Harris, compared to 33 percent who said they planned on voting for Trump. In contrast, Trump was much more popular among those between 45 and 64 years old.