Pres. Biden took office more than three months ago, but Republicans are not any closer to accepting his victory now than they were then. FiveThirtyEight breaks it down:
, and Pew did find that a whopping 72 percent of Republicans said that “illegal immigration is a very big problem” compared with just 29 percent of Democrats; however, for both Republicans and Democrats, those figures marked a recent high in Pew’s polling.
This means Biden may encounter some challenges in passing his agenda. For instance, overall support for giving undocumented immigrants a path to legally remain in the U.S. dropped from 75 percent in June 2020 to 69 percent in the new survey. While the drop in support was driven largely by Republicans and not Democrats , Democrats did show a slight increase in support for restrictive policies on other questions.
Such polling shifts are due in part to the current situation at the border, but they also reflect that public opinion is often thermostatic — that is, the
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