A lot of these polls are very aligned with the message of their respective parties. When you have this much fluctuation, it suggests that Americans don't have sort of strongly held fixed beliefs about this. And so in those cases, often people will turn to party leaders to kind of seek guidance and take cues from them.
In this installment of the podcast, the crew talks about what’s in the debt ceiling agreement, why polls on the debt ceiling have been straight-up contradictory and what could happen if the legislation isn’t passed by next Monday. They also discuss the significant increase in laws involving sexuality and gender in Republican-led states and what Americans think about them. And Galen speaks with senior writer Monica Potts about her new book, "The Forgotten Girls."
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