February<\/a>, while 40% disapprove of the job he is doing. President Donald Trump holds a 28% job approval, while 64% disapprove of the job he is doing in office. Mayor Karen Bass holds a 24% job approval rating among Los Angeles voters, while 47% disapprove of the job Bass is doing.\u00a0<\/p>\nStatewide, 48% of voters think California is headed in the right direction, while 52% think the state is on the wrong track. Los Angeles voters are evenly split: 50% think the state is heading in the right direction, and 50% think it is on the wrong track.<\/p>\n
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The top issue for California voters continues to be the economy (37%), followed by housing affordability (22%), threats to democracy (11%), immigration (8%), and healthcare (7%).<\/p>\n
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A majority of California voters (53%) think the issue of homelessness is getting worse, 33% think it is staying the same, and 15% think it is getting better.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Voters were asked if they are more concerned or more excited about Artificial Intelligence (AI): 57% are more concerned, 20% more excited, and 23% feel neither.<\/p>\n
A majority of voters, 64%, want the next Governor of California to stand up to the Trump administration, while 36% would rather they work with the Trump administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Among voters who want the next Governor to work with the Trump administration, 36% support Hilton for Governor, 31% Bianco, and 19% are undecided.<\/p>\n
Among voters who want the next Governor to stand up to the Trump administration, 25% support Swalwell for Governor, 15% Steyer, 12% Porter, and 28% are undecided.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Forty-one percent of California voters have made a financial tradeoff in order to pay for groceries or food in the past year, while 59% have not.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Methodology<\/p>\n
The Emerson College California survey was conducted March 7-9, 2026. The sample of California likely voters, n=1,000, has a credibility interval, similar to a poll\u2019s margin of error (MOE), of +\/- 3 percentage points. The sample of Los Angeles likely voters consists of a sample size of n=350 with a credibility interval of +\/- 5.2%. The data sets were weighted by gender, age, and education based on U.S. Census parameters and voter file data.<\/p>\n
It is important to remember that subsets based on demographics, such as gender, age, education, and race\/ethnicity, carry with them higher credibility intervals, as the sample size is reduced. Survey results should be understood within the poll\u2019s range of scores, and with a confidence interval of 95% a poll will fall outside the range of scores 1 in 20 times.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Data was collected by contacting a voter list of cellphones via MMS-to-web text and email, voter lists provided by Aristotle. Additional online panel responses were collected via PureSpectrum; panel responses were matched to the Aristotle voter file using respondents\u2019 full name and ZIP code. The survey was offered in English. <\/p>\n
All questions asked in this survey with exact wording and order, along with full results, demographics, and cross tabulations can be found below. The survey is sponsored by Nexstar Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Emerson College Polling\/Inside California Politics survey of the June primary for Governor finds Congressman Eric Swalwell…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-214654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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