Respondents rate Donald Trump from very liberal to very conservative in CES surveys from 2018 to 2024.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 8% answered “Liberal” in CES: Rated ideology of Donald Trump, 2024.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| CES: Ideological placement of Donald Trump | Ideological placement of Donald Trump How would you rate each of the following individuals and groups? [Donald Trump] Caveat: Same 7-point scale; collapsed to 3 categories | identical | Very Liberal → Liberal; Liberal → Liberal; Somewhat Liberal → Liberal; Middle of the Road → Middle of the road; Somewhat Conservative → Conservative; Conservative → Conservative; Very Conservative → Conservative |
| CES: Rating of Donald Trump's ideology | Rating of Donald Trump's ideology How would you rate each of the following individuals and groups? [Donald Trump] Caveat: Same 7-point scale; collapsed to 3 categories | identical | Very Liberal → Liberal; Liberal → Liberal; Somewhat Liberal → Liberal; Middle of the Road → Middle of the road; Somewhat Conservative → Conservative; Conservative → Conservative; Very Conservative → Conservative |
| CES: Rating of Donald Trump's ideology | Rating of Donald Trump's ideology How would you rate each of the following individuals and groups? [Donald Trump] Caveat: Same 7-point scale; collapsed to 3 categories | identical | Very Liberal → Liberal; Liberal → Liberal; Somewhat Liberal → Liberal; Middle of the Road → Middle of the road; Somewhat Conservative → Conservative; Conservative → Conservative; Very Conservative → Conservative |
| CES: Rated ideology of Donald Trump | Rated ideology of Donald Trump How would you rate each of the following individuals and groups? [Donald Trump] Caveat: Same 7-point scale; collapsed to 3 categories | identical | Very Liberal → Liberal; Liberal → Liberal; Somewhat Liberal → Liberal; Middle of the Road → Middle of the road; Somewhat Conservative → Conservative; Conservative → Conservative; Very Conservative → Conservative |