Favorability of Federal Law Enforcement Leaders Under 30%

Publication Date: 12/17/2025 5:00 AM CST

Favorability of Federal Law Enforcement Leaders Under 30%

Publication: 12/17/2025 5:00 AM CST

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Currently, 29% of registered voters have a favorable view of United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and 40% have an unfavorable view.
- His visibility has increased since November of 2024, resulting in a mild 4-point bounce in his favorables, but a 14-point spike in his unfavorable numbers.
- Republicans favor Hegseth by a 47% to 18% margin.
- As might be expected, a large majority (62%) of Democrats view Hegseth unfavorably, and only 13% view him favorably.
Director of the FBI, Kash Patel, has a favorable rating of 29% and an unfavorable rating of 37%.
- A plurality of Republicans (47%) have a favorable opinion of Patel, while 19% have an unfavorable opinion.
- Democrats have the opposite opinion, with only 15% viewing Patel favorably, and 51% viewing him unfavorably.
With similar ratings to Patel, United States Attorney General Pam Bondi has a favorable rating of 29% and an unfavorable rating of 36%.
- More Republicans (47%) than Democrats (15%) have a favorable opinion of Bondi.
- Likewise, more Democrats (55%) than Republicans (15%) have an unfavorable opinion of Bondi.
United States Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, is viewed favorably by 27% of voters, but 37% view her unfavorably.
- Similar to Hegseth, Noem's favorable rating has gone up 5 points since November 2024, but her unfavorable rating has also gone up 12 points since then.
- Forty-four percent (44%) of Republican voters have a favorable opinion of Noem, but only 13% of Democrats feel the same.
- Conversely, 57% of Democrats have an unfavorable opinion of Noem, but only 13% of Republicans say the same.
- More men (33%) than women (22%) view Noem favorably.
Voters making more than $150,000 annually have net positive ratings for every politician listed here.
- Voters who talk politics daily or nearly every day also give net positive ratings to all politicians listed.
Roughly one third of voters have either never heard of these candidates, or don't know enough about them to have an opinion.

This data is from a Napolitan News Service survey of 1,000 Registered Voters conducted online by Scott Rasmussen, December 10-11, 2025. RMG Research, Inc., conducted the field work for the survey. It has a margin of error of +/- 3.1.