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CBS News Poll · Jan 10–12, 2024 · US national

Methodology

Pollster
CBS News/YouGov media
Sponsor
CBS News
Fielded
Jan 10–12, 2024
Population
likely Republican primary voters
Sample size
2,870
Sample frame
online opt-in
Panel
YouGov
Mode
online - CBS News/YouGov survey of adults in the U.S.
Margin of error
±2.5 pts (full sample)
Weighting
weighted according to gender, age, race, and education based on the U.S. Census American Community Survey and Current Population Survey, as well as 2020 Presidential vote and 2022 Congressional vote; weights range 0.1 to 6.6, mean 1, SD 0.9
Geography
US national
Base notes
Full sample 2,870 U.S. adults; both items below were asked among likely Republican primary voters (weighted N=729 for the 'hear candidates talk about' item)

Sources

Verification note. Wording and toplines for Q15 and Q16 read directly from the CBS News/YouGov topline PDF (p.4); crosstab for Q16 item B read from p.40 (table 16B). CBS published no crosstab for the Q15 surgery item.

Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.

Questions asked (2)

Youth medical careotherin a trend series
preference for a GOP candidate who would ban gender-related surgeries for minors

In the Republican presidential primaries in 2024, would you prefer to vote for a Republican candidate who...

In the Republican presidential primaries in 2024, would you prefer to vote for a Republican candidate who... Ban surgeries that change a child's gender

Yes
86%
No
14%

Wording notes: 'surgeries that change a child's gender' - describes a procedure that is rarely performed on minors | binary yes/no with no 'don't know' offered | asked in a battery of candidate-attribute items including 'makes liberals angry' and 'challenges woke ideas'

loaded_terms — 'Ban surgeries that change a child's gender' invokes an image of surgery on children that is not typical of the care actually at issue in state bans (which mostly cover puberty blockers and hormones); the forced yes/no with no middle also inflates agreement.

Political salienceotherin a trend series
how much GOP primary voters want candidates to talk about transgender issues in schools

How much do you want to hear the Republican candidates talk about...?

How much do you want to hear the Republican candidates talk about...? Transgender issues in schools

A lot
39%
Some
32%
Not much/none
29%

Wording notes: measures desired campaign salience, not policy direction | battery item alongside the border, the economy, Israel-Hamas and the Trump/Hunter Biden indictments

neutral — Neutral salience scale applied identically across six campaign topics.

Subgroup figures (12)

party

GroupA lotSomeNot much/none
Republicans (within likely GOP primary voters)41%33%26%
Independents (within likely GOP primary voters)36%28%36%

ideology

GroupA lotNot much/none
Moderate29%42%
Conservative46%21%

gender

GroupA lot
Male39%
Female39%

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