Mike Johnson

• Mike Johnson Approval (April 2025)

  Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the job Mike Johnson has done as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives? Would you say that you..."

• Texas partisans' views of the U.S. role in the world illuminate the roiled politics of U.S. foreign policy

  February 23, 2024 | By: Jim Henson

  For the first time in a decade of polling, more Texans in the February 2024 UT/Texas Politics Project Poll agreed than disagreed that “This country would be better off if we just stayed home and did not concern ourselves with problems in other parts of the world." The poll found 48% of Texas voters agreeing with the statement as legislation that would provide military, economic, and humanitarian aid to countries including Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan remains stalled in Congress amidst divisions in both parties about U.S. spending priorities, particularly Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives. Divergent attitudes among Texas partisans on the general idea of U.S. foreign policy and toward the countries involved largely align with the bitter divisions paralyzing Congress and pushing foreign policy issues into the 2024 presidential campaign.