{"id":38093,"date":"2025-02-05T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38093"},"modified":"2025-02-05T20:38:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T02:38:28","slug":"gop-support-for-musk-influence-with-trump-falls-dramatically-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38093","title":{"rendered":"GOP support for Musk influence with Trump falls dramatically: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The share of Republicans who say they want tech billionaire Elon Musk\u2002<\/u><\/a>to have significant influence in the Trump administration has fallen substantially in the months since President Trump\u2002<\/u><\/a>was elected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In The Economist\/YouGov poll<\/u><\/a> taken in the days after the November 2024 election, 47 percent of surveyed Republicans said they wanted Musk to have \u201ca lot\u201d of influence in the Trump administration, while 29 percent wanted \u201ca little\u201d and 12 percent wanted him to have \u201cnone at all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, however, the share of Republicans who say they want Musk to have \u201ca lot\u201d of influence has fallen substantially to 26 percent. Meanwhile, 43 percent of Republican respondents say they want Musk to have \u201ca little\u201d influence, and 17 percent say they want him to have \u201cnone at all,\u201d according to the latest poll from The Economist\/YouGov<\/u><\/a> released Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surveyed Democrats and independents are also showing less desire for Musk to have a prominent influence in the Trump administration. Only 6 percent of each group say they want Musk to have \u201ca lot\u201d of influence. In November, 15 percent of Democrats and 26 percent of independents said they wanted Trump to have \u201ca lot\u201d of influence in the administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, 13 percent of surveyed Americans want Musk to have \u201ca lot\u201d of influence on the Trump administration, while 25 percent say they want \u201ca little\u201d influence and 46 percent say they want \u201cnone at all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In November, 34 percent of surveyed Americans wanted Musk to have \u201ca lot\u201d of influence, 22 percent wanted him to have \u201ca little\u201d influence, and 30 percent said \u201cnone at all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The numbers come as 51 percent of Americans perceive Musk as having \u201ca lot\u201d of influence on the Trump administration, according to the February poll. That includes 78 percent of Democrats, 41 percent of Independents, and 35 percent of Republicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest poll also shows Americans have less favorable views of Trump and Vice President Vance than they did in last week\u2019s poll, conducted after their first week in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has zero net favorability, with 48 percent of respondents viewing him favorably and unfavorably. Last week, Trump had a positive net favorability rounded to 3 points, with approximately 50 percent of survey respondents viewing him favorably and 48 percent unfavorably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance\u2019s favorability rating dropped more significantly over the past week, from a net positive rating of 2 points down to a negative 7-point favorability rating. Last week, 45 percent of respondents viewed him favorably and 43 percent viewed him unfavorably; this week, 40 percent view him favorably and 47 percent view him unfavorably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musk was tapped to lead the inaugural Department of Government Efficiency commission to root out waste at federal departments and agencies. Since Trump took office, however, Musk has taken several bold steps that have some critics questioning the legal basis<\/u><\/a> for his authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He moved to lock federal workers out of the U.S. Agency for International Development, which Congress funds annually through appropriations bills for the State Department and foreign operations. Musk gained access to the Treasury Department\u2019s federal payment system, and, under Musk\u2019s influence, many federal workers have been offered buyouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest survey included 1,604 U.S. citizens and was conducted Feb. 2-4, 2025. The margin of error is 3.2 percentage points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The share of Republicans who say they want tech billionaire Elon Musk\u2002to have significant influence in the Trump administration has fallen substantially in the months since President Trump\u2002was elected. In The Economist\/YouGov poll taken in the days after the November 2024 election, 47 percent of surveyed Republicans said they wanted Musk to have \u201ca lot\u201d of influence in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":38094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1264,1330,2140,1230],"class_list":["post-38093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-gop","tag-musk","tag-support","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38095,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38093\/revisions\/38095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}