Manzanita Miller

Manzanita Miller is the senior political analyst at Americans for Limited Government Foundation.

Manzanita Miller
08.22.2025

President Trump’s America First Economic Priorities Are Winning Over Voters

By Manzanita Miller As inflation slows and Americans begin to reap the benefits of President Donald Trump’s America First approach to creating jobs for native-born workers, voters are rallying behind the president’s approach.   A new survey shows a majority of voters, including a majority of Hispanics, […]

08.20.2025

Supreme Court To Rule On Race-Based Redistricting And Voters Weigh In Opposing The Questionable Practice

By Manzanita Miller The constitutionally dubious practice of states using race as a variable to redraw congressional districts, which largely shifts power to Democrats in the House of Representatives, is being called into question before the Supreme Court in a Louisiana case that could set a strong […]

08.15.2025

Poll: Over Two-Thirds Say Crime A Major Problem As Trump Declares Crime Emergency In Washington, D.C.

By Manzanita Miller   The issue of skyrocketing threats to safety and property in major cities has risen rapidly to the forefront of voters’ minds, with over two-thirds of Americans saying crime is a major problem and a majority saying crime has gone up since 2020 according […]

08.13.2025

Don’t Let Them Fool You: Americans Support President Trump And Congressional Republicans On Immigration

By Manzanita Miller   After President Donald Trump won a sweeping victory in 2024 with the promise to reverse the damage Democrats’ disastrous open borders agenda caused to the United States, Democrats were aghast. But the message was clear — President Trump ran and won on a […]

08.08.2025

Democrats Call Their Own Party Weak, Broken And Ineffective Ahead Of Two Gubernatorial Races This Fall And The Midterms

By Manzanita Miller A new AP-NORC survey finds that Democrat voters are continuing to lose faith in the Democratic Party in recent weeks, and that reality that could have significant ramifications on two gubernatorial races this fall as well as the midterm elections next year.  The survey, conducted among […]

08.06.2025

New Jersey Is A State To Watch In 2025. Can GOP Up Their Game Among Independent And Latino Voters?

By Manzanita Miller    After the 2024 midterm election, several states emerged as possible new “purple states”, states that were once long-time Democrat strongholds but showed signs of moving toward the right when faced with a choice between Former Vice President Kamala Harris and President Donald Trump. […]

08.01.2025

J.D. Vance Already Leading In 2028 Polls Against Democrats And May Be Able To Bring Young Voters And College Educated Under The Conservative Umbrella

By Manzanita Miller While the 2026 midterm elections in fifteen months will continue to reshape the political landscape, early polling is also gauging voter interest in the 2028 presidential election, and Vice President J.D. Vance is currently holding a narrow lead against three Democratic rivals. Vance’s national […]

07.30.2025

More Voters Identify As Republican For First Time in Decades And Democrat Approval Suffers 35-year Low

By Manzanita Miller   For the first time in decades more Americans are identifying as Republicans and the Democratic Party is suffering its lowest approval rating since the early1990s due to its grave mishandling of priorities like the economy, inflation, trade, and immigration.   Last week, Democrats […]

07.25.2025

Off-duty Border Protection Officer Shot In N.Y.C Amid Growing Violence Against ICE In ‘Sanctuary Cities’ As U.S. Sues

By Manzanita Miller Democrat leaders’ attempt to devise “sanctuary cities” that restrict Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from performing their jobs and deporting illegal criminals is backfiring after a tragic incident in New York City left an off-duty border patrol agent in the hospital with gunshot wounds. A […]

07.18.2025

Early Midterm Poll: Swing Voters Moving Right By Double-Digits Plus College Educated Moving Back Toward Republicans?

By Manzanita Miller We have covered at length the vast, often double-digit shifts among swing voters — notably young, minority and independent voters — toward President Donald Trump between 2020 and 2024, with some left-wing pundits speculating the momentum would not last. However, with each survey we […]

07.11.2025

Poll: Dems Fail To Gain Momentum After ICE Protests, Iran Strike And Passage of One Big Beautiful Bill

By Manzanita Miller Democrats are continuing to struggle to gain ground in generic Congressional ballot polls, despite the midterm elections inching closer. The latest Real Clear Polling average has Democrats ahead of Republicans by just 2.4 points, and Cygnal, a polling organization that challenges mainstream narratives with data, […]

07.09.2025

Young, Upwardly Mobile Middle Class Hispanics Could Spell the End for Democrats

By Manzanita Miller   Republicans have made significant inroads with Hispanic voters in recent elections, with President Donald Trump earning the greatest share of the Hispanic vote for any modern Republican President in 2024 and House Republicans gaining nine points last fall compared to 2020.    As […]

07.02.2025

Supreme Court Curtails Sweeping Universal Injunctions Set In Place To Block President Trump In Historic Case

By Manzanita Miller The month of June concluded with a historic victory for President Donald Trump and the American people when the Supreme Court effectively dismantled the strategy a network of federal judges has been using to block key elements of the president’s policy agenda in lower […]

06.27.2025

Vast Majority Of Americans Favor Negotiating With Iran As Democrats Fail To Capitalize On Uncertainty And Fall In Congressional Ballot Survey

By Manzanita Miller   Despite a flurry of reports from the mainstream media warning of President Donald Trump’s stagnant approval ratings due to tense relations between Israel and Iran, polling shows that the American people largely support Trump’s approach to negotiations with Iran.   What is more, Congressional […]

06.25.2025

Poll: Close To Two-Thirds of Democrat Voters Want Their Party Leadership Replaced for Neglecting Issues They Care About

By Manzanita Miller In the midst of President Donald Trump brokering a tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Iran which he has urged both nations to honor, another political battle is unfolding here at home as Democrat voters call for completely new leadership in their party.       A growing […]

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