* Pritzker campaign press release…

New polling confirms that Co-Presidents Donald Trump and Elon Musk are incredibly unpopular with Illinois voters who hold intense unfavorable views of both men and their agenda. Both Donald Trump and Elon Musk are underwater by double digits with Trump at -14 favorability, and Musk even less popular at -18. Independent voters also view both negatively by double digit margins.

The extreme agenda Trump and Musk are forcing on the nation drive the negative views from Illinois voters. More than half of voters surveyed report being “extremely concerned” about actions taken during the first weeks of Trump and Musk’s administration. Among the most unpopular actions are ending an initiative to lower the cost of prescription drugs and eliminating government programs that provide healthcare, meals on wheels, and childcare.

* From the polling memo…

A new survey of likely 2026 voters in Illinois finds that Illinoisans are highly unfavorable towards both President Donald Trump and Elon Musk and find most of the actions taking over the last few weeks extremely concerning.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are both similarly unpopular among Illinois voters. Donald Trump is underwater by double digits with Illinois voters at -14 favorable (42% favorable/56% unfavorable), as is Elon Musk, at -18 favorable (38% favorable/56% unfavorable). These negative attitudes are intense, with half viewing either very unfavorably (50% for Musk, 49% for Trump). And though Democrats are the most negative on Musk and Trump, independents view them both negatively as well. […]

Illinois voters find the recent actions of Musk and the Trump administration to be deeply concerning. A majority of voters find each of over a dozen actions taken by the Trump administration in recent months concerning, but most are seen as “extremely concerning.” As shown in the table below, the actions of greatest concern to voters include them ending an initiative to lower the cost of prescription drugs (57% extremely concerning, rated a 5 on a 1 to 5 scale), eliminating government programs including healthcare, meals on wheels, and child care (56%), eliminating all members of the aviation safety board (55%), and pardoning all the January 6th Capitol rioters (54%).

ABOUT THE POLL

Global Strategy Group conducted a survey of 800 likely 2026 voters in Illinois between February 5 and February 9, 2025. The survey has a margin of error of +/- 3.5% and was conducted via telephone and text invitation to web-based survey. Care has been taken to ensure the geographic, political, and demographic divisions of the population of likely voters are properly represented.

I skipped one graphic because I couldn’t fit it on this page, but if you click here you’ll see that Elon Musk’s favorable rating is underwater among Black voters by 61 percent and Trump’s is underwater with Black voters by 39 percent. However, among all Democrats, Musk’s favorable rating is underwater by 93 percent and Trump’s is underwater by 91 percent.

Interestingly, no Latino results were provided.