AP-NORC Poll Finds Voters Want Affordability and Iran on Congress’s Agenda
A new AP-NORC poll indicates that voters across the U.S. want the next Congress to prioritize making life more affordable and addressing the situation in Iran, rather than focusing on Donald Trump.
Springfield, MO, October 22, 2026 —
A new AP-NORC poll indicates that voters across the United States want the next Congress to focus on making life more affordable and addressing the situation in Iran, rather than focusing on Donald Trump.
The finding describes the priorities voters want lawmakers to emphasize. The summary of the poll does not provide percentages, details about how the survey was conducted, when it was carried out, or how respondents were asked to rank the issues. It therefore does not show how strongly voters favor either priority or how widely those views are shared among different groups.
The poll’s reported result places affordability and Iran ahead of attention to Trump in voters’ stated preferences for the next Congress. It does not specify what policies respondents associate with making life more affordable, or what actions they want Congress to take regarding Iran. Nor does the finding establish that voters oppose congressional attention to Trump; it says they would rather lawmakers prioritize the other issues.
The information provided also does not say whether respondents identified additional priorities, or how the issues compared with one another in the poll. Without the survey’s full results and methodology, the finding is limited to the broad preference described by AP-NORC.
The result offers a snapshot of what voters say they want the next Congress to address, but the details available do not establish the size of the preference, its causes or how it might affect congressional decisions. Further information about the poll was not included in the summary.
Story summarized from the original created by LINLEY SANDERS and MIKE CATALINI, Associated Press on www.ozarksfirst.com, see more information here.
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