August 21st, 2024
Gun-grabbing leftists and their media acolytes often claim that the vast majority of Americans support their “common-sense” policies on gun control. New polling by Fox News tells a different story.
With the bipartisan direction of Beacon Research, a left-wing pollster, and Shaw & Company Research, a right-wing pollster, Fox conducted polling on a sample of over 1,100 likely voters. A myriad of survey questions were included that touched on candidate favorability, voter enthusiasm, and the importance of various hot-button political issues among voters. With a proportionate range of registered Republicans, Democrats, and Independents polled, TXGR endorsed candidate Donald J. Trump edges out victory over Vice President Kamala Harris by 1%.
When it comes to the issues, guns rank low on the list of importance, with only 3% of respondents ranking it as the issue they care most about. It appears that the 2024 election will boil down to the top 3 responses, the economy (38%), immigration (14%), and abortion (14%).
Diving deeper into which candidate voters believe would better handle each issue, voters trust President Donald Trump on gun policy over Kamala Harris by 3 percentage points. Voters also favor Trump over Kamala on the economy, foreign policy, immigration, and border security. This poll exhibits relatively similar results on candidate trust as the one conducted by Fox News on June 24th, when Joe Biden was still the Democratic nominee. Trump has improved on the issue of guns among voters by 1% since then.
Trump’s candidate favorability on the issue of guns continues through the context of the failed assassination attempt on the former president, in which Donald Trump was struck on the ear by a bullet fired from an AR-15 rifle. This particular firearm has been the prime target of gun control activists for many years, with widespread calls for it to be banned in the United States. Trump recently announced during a press conference that the attempt on his life did not alter his support for the 2nd Amendment and emphasized the importance of Americans being able to defend themselves and their families.
Despite this, guns have rarely been a topic of discussion for the Trump campaign throughout the 2024 cycle. He has, for the most part, stuck to the key issues of immigration and the economy. Meanwhile, his opponent has focused the majority of her campaign efforts on rallying support for abortion access. Given Trump’s favorability on the issue of guns, it may be time for him to put greater emphasis in supporting 2nd Amendment rights nationwide.
Kamala Harris is the most radically anti-gun candidate in American history. She has consistently called for bans on so-called “assault rifles,” and she even praised Australia’s mandatory gun buy-back program, saying she would like to see something similar implemented in the United States. She has vehemently supported “Red Flag Laws,” which strip the American people of due process and violate their Constitutional rights.
Kamala’s campaign has attempted to tone down her anti-gun rhetoric in an effort to appear more moderate, publicly flip-flopping on the issue of gun confiscation, as she has with many others. President Trump should seize every opportunity to highlight just how insanely radical and unconstitutional Kamala’s views on the 2nd Amendment are and paint a picture of what practical applications of her worldview would actually look like. Imagine advertisements depicting the reality of gun confiscation and state-enforced violence against law-abiding gun owners. This type of messaging could open the eyes of gun owners who are perhaps not very invested in politics and wouldn’t typically vote, allowing them to understand that their fundamental rights are under imminent attack.
With that said, we are a gun rights organization, not a consulting firm. We are not experts at running presidential campaigns.
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