60% of Americans "Trump 2nd Four Years of Optimism"...The outlook for economic improvement prevails.

Source: Yonhap News

When asked "optimistic or pessimistic" about President-elect Donald Trump's four-year term in office, 60% of Americans chose optimism, CBS reported, citing a self-commissioned poll.

The percentage of those who expressed optimism by age group was 67% aged 18-29, 62% aged 30-44, 60% aged 45-64, and 51% aged 65 or older, indicating that younger people were more optimistic.

In the past, CBS polls conducted at the beginning of the new president's inauguration showed that 58% of Joe Biden in 2021 and 56% of Trump's first term in 2017.

Going back further, Barack Obama 79% in 2009 and George W. Bush 64% in 2001. Bill Clinton 70% in 1993, George H.W. Bush 68% in 1989, Ronald Reagan 69% in 1981, and Jimmy Carter 70% in 1977.

CBS attributed the declining percentage of Americans expressing optimistic prospects for a new president's term to a dwindling percentage of opposition supporters expressing positive opinions as political polarization intensifies.

The survey was commissioned by CBS News to pollster YouGov and conducted on 2,174 U.S. adults from the 15th to 17th local time, with a margin of error of ±2.5 percentage points.When asked for opinions on the economic situation of

{currently', 38% said "good" and 56% said "bad," but 52% said "good" and 31% said "bad" when asked about "the outlook for economic conditions in 2025."

Thirty-nine percent of all respondents and 74 percent of those who voted for Trump agreed with the prospect that Trump's second term of policy would lower food prices.

Among all respondents, 37% said food prices would go up, but among those who voted for Trump, only 6% said there would be no change, and 24% said there would be no change.

When asked if Trump's policy would improve the respondents' economic conditions, 42% of the respondents and 77% of Trump supporters said yes, while 30% of the respondents said it would be similar and 20% of Trump supporters.

Twenty-eight percent of the respondents said they expected it to worsen, and three percent of Trump supporters.

When asked if he thought Trump's policies would improve peace and stability in the world, 46% of the total and 88% of Trump supporters answered yes.

Thirty-seven percent of the respondents said peace and stability would weaken, four percent of Trump supporters, and 16 percent and eight percent of Trump supporters said there would be no impact.

When asked about the pros and cons of Trump's plan to buy Greenland, 61% of all voters opposed it, but 68% were in favor of it among Trump supporters.

When asked about the pros and cons of additional U.S. tariffs on imported goods, opposition prevailed among all voters at 54%, but approval was overwhelming among Trump supporters at 82%.

When the poll asked whether they were in favor of or against launching a program to expel all illegal immigrants in the United States, 55% of all respondents and 90% of Trump supporters said yes.

Some point out that if you ask vaguely about expelling immigrants, the approval is certainly dominant among Americans, but if you suggest specific measures to implement them and ask for their opinions, the approval rate is low.

In a poll of 1,25 U.S. adults conducted by U.S. political media Axios with pollster Ipsos from the 10th to the 12th of this month, 66 percent of the total voted in favor of deporting immigrants illegally staying in the U.S., 93 percent among Republican supporters, and 43 percent among Democratic supporters.

But those in favor of mobilizing active-duty soldiers to ferret out illegal immigrants were far lower, with 38% of the total, 71% of Republican supporters and 12% of Democratic supporters.

Only 28% of the population voted in favor of using the military's budget to expel illegal immigrants, 42% of Republicans and 10% of Democrats.

Only 34% of the total, 12% of Democratic supporters, and 64% of Republicans approved of deporting people who came to the U.S. with their families as children and became illegal immigrants.

There were also questions about how to expel legal immigrants rather than illegal immigrants, including 11% of the total, 18% of Republican supporters, and 10% of Democratic supporters.

The sampling error for the Axios and Ipsos surveys is ±3.2 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.