A flash YouGov survey of 4,309 US adults with the sole question of “Do you approve or disapprove of deploying Marines to the Los Angeles area to respond to protests over the federal government’s immigration enforcement?” finds just 34 percent approving to 47 percent disapproving, with 19 percent unsure, much of that approval propped up by 68 percent support among Republican respondents to 13 percent GOP disapproval, plus 19 percent unsure what to think. Among independents and Dems support was at 27 and 12 percent, respectively, to 50 and 75 percent disapproving, respectively. “Not Sure” scored 13 percent among Dems and 24 percent with indies.
Also on Tuesday YouGov dropped their weekly survey for the Economist and, true to form, they found some wacky shit from Trump 2024 voters. On “Do you think that Donald Trump was involved in crimes allegedly committed by Jeffrey Epstein?” just 71 percent of MAGAmericans said no while fully a tenth said yes, they do believe the president they voted for was a client of the dead pimp’s sex trafficking ring, and the rest – 19 percent – said they didn’t know. Overall a plurality at 42 percent said yes while 32 percent said no and 26 percent were unsure. Among Kamala Harris 2024 voters 80 percent said yes, 4 percent no, and 16 percent didn’t know, which makes enough sense given the lib inclination toward skepticism, people not fully reading the 55th out of 55 survey questions, etc.
What makes less sense is the Trump fan numbers not being 97 to 100 percent no, their Orange Allah did NOT eff underage sex slaves supplied to him by Jeffrey Epstein. Weighting, margin of error, people tuning out on the last question of a long survey, whatever happened from point A to point B of this survey still found at the very least a fifth, maybe a quarter, of Trump 2024 voters either not certain that their president is not a statutory rapist and around a third of those respondents thinking that actually maybe he is one after Ketamine Brain tweeted that accusation out last week.
How big of a political problem this presents for the GOP is not clear, except to say it’s definitely not nothing. One way to fix it would be to actually release everything the federal government has on Epstein. That the Trump Administration hasn’t done that, doesn’t seem to be in a rush to do it, sent Kash Patel and Dan Bongino on TV to say that Epstein killed himself in what might’ve been some kind of ill-advised attempt to ameliorate the dissent in the MAGA base, says a lot and nothing good about what federal law enforcement have on Don and Jeff’s partying days. The excuse is that they don’t want to impugn people who haven’t been charged with any crimes, as if that isn’t the whole fucking reason that both MAGA and libs want to know what’s in those goddamned files.
That K$H, Bongino, and Attorney General Pam Bondi won’t even put out a redacted version also says a lot about the way they see this shitshow. It goes without saying they don’t give a shit about breaking the law or engaging in unethical conduct when it comes to dropping cases against Trump minions like Andy Ogles and Vince McMahon, yet they’re going to Merrick Garland this particular situation to the max because even putting everything out with names covered in black ink is a danger. Thousands of smart journalists and lawyers crowdsourcing together would take like six hours to reverse engineer the whole thing and put Trump’s name where it belongs while largely ignoring the other scumbags described in other sections of victim testimony.
They can’t do it, they won’t, and that’s why the riots in Los Angeles were a lucky break. For now.
The Economist/YouGov survey also found 55 percent of Trump voters saying gas prices would be lower six months from now. The US national average price per gallon as of June 10, 2025 is $3.12, per the AAA’s tracker. It’s exactly the same it was on January 20th, 2025, which MAYBE actually technically represents a drop as stations are supposed to switch to more expensive summer blend gasoline on May 1st, but who the hell knows if that rule’s actually being enforced these days.