(POLL) Most voters still trust FBI


The following is from Rasmussen Reports.


A Rasmussen Reports survey finds that 54% of likely voters say they have a favorable view of the FBI, including 22% who say they hold a very favorable opinion. On the other hand, 40% of voters say they have an unfavorable view, including 21% who say they have a very unfavorable opinion.

Recent events, including the FBI’s response to a terrorist attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people, have drawn significant criticism. Despite this, 55% of voters say they trust the FBI to investigate the attack, while 33% say they do not trust the agency to handle the case, and 12% are unsure.

Opinions about the FBI’s performance vary significantly across political parties. They say that 75% of Democrats have a favorable impression of the FBI, compared to 38% of Republicans and 48% of unaffiliated voters. When it comes to protecting Americans from terrorism, 20% of voters rate the FBI’s job performance as excellent, and 31% say it has been good. Meanwhile, 24% rate the FBI’s performance as fair, and 23% rate it as poor.

The survey of 1,277 likely voters was conducted January 5-7, 2025, with a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points. Fieldwork for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC.

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7 thoughts on “(POLL) Most voters still trust FBI”

  1. As Jeffrey Prather observes: the fbi are a crime-management agency. The evidence is irrefutable. From Lee Harvey Oswald right up to the two recent Trump assassination attempts. Any informed citizen needs to understand the legacy of corruption. J. Edgar Hoover was no saint. This is not to suggest that every fbi operative is corrupt; however, with Tulsi,etc. in a position of leadership-perhaps the bad apples can be routed out.

  2. Aftr th involvmnt o th FBI in th Jan 6 2021 entrapmnt o US sitiznz, th Aug 2022 raid on Mar a Lago, n meni uthr akts o politikl intrferens by th FBI onli a fool wd trust them.. ..yor pol sez a lot about American brānz

  3. I thought polls with less than a 3500 sampling was unreliable yet here we are propaganzing how the nation supports the FBI with a sampling of less than 1300. At least a majority of the republicans surveyed do not trust the FBI but IMO 38% of republicans are still clueless.
    Okay so maybe the FBI has done a good job of protecting US from terrorist but since any thwarted threat is reported by the FBI themselves, can we trust those?
    As the saying goes, ‘You can’t fix stupid’; let’s hope Kash and team can fix the FBI.

  4. Maurine E. Meleck

    The number of people that say they still have a favorable opiniom of the FBI doesn’t surprise me as the number of those that still believe vaccines are safe and effective is still up there. Ignorance is an occuption.

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