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CNN

CNN Poll conducted by SSRS · Feb 13–17, 2025 · US national

Methodology

Pollster: CNN media
Sponsor: CNN
Fielded: Feb 13–17, 2025
Population: adults
Sample size: 1,206
Sample frame: probability panel
Panel: SSRS Opinion Panel
Mode: web and telephone on the SSRS Opinion Panel, a nationally representative panel of U.S. adults recruited using probability-based sampling techniques
Margin of error: ±3.1 percentage points
Weighting: weighted to reflect the demographic and partisan composition of U.S. adults (SSRS standard weighting; full detail in the topline's methodology section)
Geography: US national

Sources

Verification note. Question wording, coded open-end categories and percentages read directly from the CNN/SSRS topline PDF (Q4). This is the only trans-related content in that release.

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

Questions asked (1)

Political salienceopen-endedin a trend series

unprompted naming of Trump's transgender/LGBT policies as his most significant second-term action

Regardless of whether you approve or disapprove of Donald Trump, what do you think is the single most significant action he has taken in his second term so far?

Immigration/Deportations/Border/ICE (largest category, for scale)

28%

Policies toward transgender Americans/LGBT issues

DEI (adjacent category, for scale)

Wording notes: fully open-ended - trans policy is respondent-generated, not prompted | fielded roughly three weeks after the January 2025 executive orders on gender

neutral — Open-ended and unprompted; the approve/disapprove preamble is explicitly neutralizing.

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