Gallup Survey: Americans’ Trust in Fellow Voters Falls to Fifty Year Low › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

Americans’ trust in their fellow citizens’ voting judgment has fallen to its lowest recorded level in more than five decades, according to a recently published Gallup survey.

American voters’ growing distrust of political leaders and institutions now extends to one another, with Democrats and Republicans showing similar levels of skepticism.

According to Gallup, 51% of U.S. adults have a great deal or fair amount of trust in Americans as a whole to make democratic judgments–the lowest reading since Gallup began tracking the measure in 1974.

Five measures of trust in the federal government are at low points in Gallup’s trends. https://t.co/uwmZXcCJT0

— Gallup (@Gallup) October 14, 2026

Axios reports the distrust cuts across party lines with just 53 percent of Democrats, 51 percent of Republicans and 49 percent of independents trusting Americans’ ability to make democratic decisions.