Elon Musk isn't running for office but as far as his influence in the polls is concerned, his unfavorability is at 52% for registered voters per a Civiqs polling conducted between December 18th 2024 - February 2nd.
Most of the unfavorability rating comes from Democrats and Independents. Musk is at a 48% unfavorable rating with Independent…
Elon Musk isn't running for office but as far as his influence in the polls is concerned, his unfavorability is at 52% for registered voters per a Civiqs polling conducted between December 18th 2024 - February 2nd.
Most of the unfavorability rating comes from Democrats and Independents. Musk is at a 48% unfavorable rating with Independents.
It's possible that if these kinds of unfavorable polling numbers continue they will certainly make an impact on the VA-GOV race as well as the 2026 midterms. Still early.
39-52 is pretty bad, and the slide has been recent (polling before the election generally had him no worse than even.) Civiqs numbers and methodology aren't gospel, but they do often seem to capture trends well, and Musk only has clear majority support among Republicans.
If these do hold then it's obviously bad news for the GOP, though I wouldn't advise making him personally the focus of Democrats' pitch to voters, especially if Trump decides there's room for only one ego of his size and sacks him. Musk's unpopularity will probably be reflective of the unpopularity of Trump and much of his agenda and record, so dumping him won't fix things politically, but I don't think we should rely too much on the "President Musk" theme--though some have pithily and effectively used it ("Elon Musk is a terrible President"--Tim Walz.)
We need to see a poll that is conducted in a compact time period. And recently – after Musk’s efforts to shutter USAID and gain access to government payment systems that handle $ 6 trillion per year.
Again, it’s really early in the election cycle. However, it does show that Independents are divided on Musk and may very well be this way as he continues to disrupt government in an adverse way.
I’d be more focused on how the independents evolve. They are probably still trying to wait and see how things unfold in 2025.
Well, consider this: Less than one month into his presidency, Trump’s approval rating is 10% below where President Biden’s was at this point.
Granted, it’s hard to say for sure how much of that growing unpopularity is due to the actions of Elon Musk, or vice versa, but one thing seems certain: at least for now, Musk and Trump are joined at the hip.
Yeah, Musk and Trump are definitely tied together.
However, given independents are divided at this point as outlined in the poll, Musk isn’t doing anything right now that is going to move the needle for them. Remains to be seen.
We always over-estimate how much people are informed of this stuff. So many people just don't follow politics and of course the ones following RW media think this is just a normal presidency.
Certainly agreed....and those are two of the biggest puzzle pieces on why the country is so broken. The 48% of the population not horrified by what Musk is doing are never gonna be in an information ecosystem where their current perspective will be challenged.
I think it definitely has room to drop, given he's clearly driving the most extreme actions of the past two weeks.
I could be wrong, but I think Trump basically wants punishments on his enemies, the ability to fire civil servants, culture war wins and quasi-mercantilism (although as this week shows he'll renege if markets respond poorly). Musk wants some literally insane techno-libertarian state that if not checked is going to crash the economy. Lots of folks speculating on an eventual falling out but IMO we better pray it happens sooner than later. Lots of people going on about Project 2025 but that document is fucking moderate compared to what Musk seems to be after.
Elon Musk isn't running for office but as far as his influence in the polls is concerned, his unfavorability is at 52% for registered voters per a Civiqs polling conducted between December 18th 2024 - February 2nd.
Most of the unfavorability rating comes from Democrats and Independents. Musk is at a 48% unfavorable rating with Independents.
It's possible that if these kinds of unfavorable polling numbers continue they will certainly make an impact on the VA-GOV race as well as the 2026 midterms. Still early.
https://civiqs.com/results/favorable_elon_musk?uncertainty=true&annotations=true&zoomIn=true
A 6 week poll?
I have no doubt he is not loved but those aren't particularly bad numbers
39-52 is pretty bad, and the slide has been recent (polling before the election generally had him no worse than even.) Civiqs numbers and methodology aren't gospel, but they do often seem to capture trends well, and Musk only has clear majority support among Republicans.
If these do hold then it's obviously bad news for the GOP, though I wouldn't advise making him personally the focus of Democrats' pitch to voters, especially if Trump decides there's room for only one ego of his size and sacks him. Musk's unpopularity will probably be reflective of the unpopularity of Trump and much of his agenda and record, so dumping him won't fix things politically, but I don't think we should rely too much on the "President Musk" theme--though some have pithily and effectively used it ("Elon Musk is a terrible President"--Tim Walz.)
We need to see a poll that is conducted in a compact time period. And recently – after Musk’s efforts to shutter USAID and gain access to government payment systems that handle $ 6 trillion per year.
Yes, that’s fair.
Again, it’s really early in the election cycle. However, it does show that Independents are divided on Musk and may very well be this way as he continues to disrupt government in an adverse way.
I’d be more focused on how the independents evolve. They are probably still trying to wait and see how things unfold in 2025.
Well, consider this: Less than one month into his presidency, Trump’s approval rating is 10% below where President Biden’s was at this point.
Granted, it’s hard to say for sure how much of that growing unpopularity is due to the actions of Elon Musk, or vice versa, but one thing seems certain: at least for now, Musk and Trump are joined at the hip.
Yeah, Musk and Trump are definitely tied together.
However, given independents are divided at this point as outlined in the poll, Musk isn’t doing anything right now that is going to move the needle for them. Remains to be seen.
The fact that it's not 90% speaks to how broken our country is.
We always over-estimate how much people are informed of this stuff. So many people just don't follow politics and of course the ones following RW media think this is just a normal presidency.
Certainly agreed....and those are two of the biggest puzzle pieces on why the country is so broken. The 48% of the population not horrified by what Musk is doing are never gonna be in an information ecosystem where their current perspective will be challenged.
I think it definitely has room to drop, given he's clearly driving the most extreme actions of the past two weeks.
I could be wrong, but I think Trump basically wants punishments on his enemies, the ability to fire civil servants, culture war wins and quasi-mercantilism (although as this week shows he'll renege if markets respond poorly). Musk wants some literally insane techno-libertarian state that if not checked is going to crash the economy. Lots of folks speculating on an eventual falling out but IMO we better pray it happens sooner than later. Lots of people going on about Project 2025 but that document is fucking moderate compared to what Musk seems to be after.
I saw speculation somewhere that Trump is content to let Musk be a meat shield for bad press… for the time being
I am not convinced it's actually as high as 48% but I agree completely with your overall premise