In this week’s Economist/YouGov poll:

Plus polling on gas prices, the economy, the military, and more. Including:

  • 61% of Americans say gas prices are going up a lot where they live, while 24% say they're going up a little and 5% say they're not changing
  • 29% of Republicans say the U.S. economy is getting better, down from 55% a month ago and lower than any other Economist / YouGov Poll since Trump's second term began
  • 28% of Americans say they have a great deal of confidence in the military, more than say so about small business (17%), ICE (12%), organized religion (11%), the TSA (9%), and the medical system (8%), among other institutions
  • 62% of Americans say things in this country today are off on the wrong track and 27% say they're generally headed in the right direction, a new low for Trump's second term
  • Only 22% of Americans strongly or somewhat support allowing transgender student athletes to play on sports teams that match their gender identity, rather than the sex they were assigned at birth, while 61% oppose it
  • Twice as many Americans strongly or somewhat disapprove of Donald Trump's handling of renovating the White House as approve of it (28% vs. 56%)

See the toplines and crosstabs for the March 27 - 30, 2026 Economist/YouGov Poll

Methodology: The poll was conducted among 1,679 U.S. adult citizens. Respondents were selected from YouGov’s opt-in panel to be representative of U.S. adult citizens. A random sample (stratified by gender, age, race, education, geographic region, and voter registration) was selected from the 2019 American Community Survey. The sample was weighted according to gender, age, race, education, geographic region, 2024 presidential vote, 2020 election turnout and presidential vote, baseline party identification, and current voter registration status. 2024 presidential vote, at time of weighting, was estimated to be 48% Harris and 50% Trump. Demographic weighting targets come from the 2019 American Community Survey. Baseline party identification is the respondent’s most recent answer given around November 8, 2024, and is weighted to the estimated distribution at that time (31% Democratic, 33% Republican). The margin of error for the overall sample is approximately 3%.

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