Nearly 70 percent of Americans said they think the US economy is deteriorating in a new poll.
The ABC News/Ipsos poll found that 69 percent of respondents said they thought the US economy was getting worse, compared to 12 percent who said it was getting better.
18 percent of respondents believe the US economy has stayed the same.
Meanwhile, 34 percent of respondents said they approve of President Biden’s handling of gas prices, a percentage up 7 points from a similar poll released in June.
Forty-nine percent of respondents also said they would prefer a candidate who supports keeping abortion legal, while 27 percent of respondents said they would support a candidate who supports restricting access to abortion. Twenty-two percent of those surveyed said they didn’t care what their preferred candidate’s attitude to abortion was.
And 75 percent of Republicans polled said they were very excited about running in the midterms, while 68 percent of Democrats and 49 percent of independents agreed.
The new ABC News/Ipsos poll was conducted August 5-6 with a total of 665 respondents to the poll. The error rate of the survey is 4.2 percentage points.
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