river/intercept
NBC News/SurveyMonkey
NBC News Decision Desk Poll · Mar 30, 2026 – Apr 13, 2026 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- NBC News/SurveyMonkey media
- Sponsor
- NBC News
- Fielded
- Mar 30, 2026 – Apr 13, 2026
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- —
- Sample frame
- river/intercept
- Panel
- SurveyMonkey
- Mode
- online - powered by SurveyMonkey; respondents selected from the more than two million people who take surveys on SurveyMonkey each day
- Margin of error
- not captured in the extracted portion of the topline
- Weighting
- weighted; reported percentages exclude item non-response and round to the nearest percentage point
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- Total sample size not captured in the extracted portion of the topline; a companion Gen Z topline reports adults 18-29 separately
Sources
Verification note. Wording and percentages read directly from the main topline (Q27) and the companion Gen Z topline (Q27), both of which carry the April 11-20, 2025 trend column. No party crosstab is published for this item.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (1)
whether transgender women athletes should compete in female sports
Do you agree or disagree that transgender women athletes should be permitted to compete in female sports?
Wording notes: agree/disagree format vulnerable to acquiescence bias | binary with no middle and no 'don't know' - results sum to 100 | asks only about trans women | asked immediately after two parallel items on whether men and women face unrecognized challenges in society
tilts_restrictive — Same forced binary as the 2025 fielding, with no middle or don't-know; here it is additionally preceded by two items about men's and women's unrecognized challenges, which primes a zero-sum gender frame before the trans-athlete item is asked.
Subgroup figures (2)