Just 28% of voters favor President Trump's recent executive order renaming Lake Ontario Lake America. Sixty-one percent (61%) oppose it.
Those numbers include 14% who Strongly Favor executive order, but 45% who Strongly Oppose it. Trump-policy voters favor the order by a margin of 69% to 21%, but Traditional GOP voters opose it by a margin of 27% to 63%.
President Trump's other suggested executive order does not fare any better: just over 1 in 5 (21%) favor the idea of President Trump renaming the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Even fewer (14%) say that the Straight of Hormuz is now a U.S. territory after the president's recent declaration.
The Outliers
There are 2 groups that are excited about these orders and declaration.
The first is voters who support Trump-like policies. Seven in 10 (69%) support renaming Lake Ontario, and a majority (52%) even favor renaming the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. However,both orders fall completely flat with Traditional GOP voters.
As Scott Rasmussen has said for months, Trump's base "will crawl over broken glass" to get to the polls; they are not the group that needs to be fired up. Traditional GOP voters, on the other hand, are thouroughly disenchanted right now. Just __% say they are excited to vote in the upcoming midterms. If they decide to stay home, it is going to be a very long night for Republicans.
The second group is those who talk politics every day. In this small, insulated circle, a majority (56%) favor renaming Lake Ontario. A nearly identical number (55%) favor renaming the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
On the issue whether or not the Straight of Hormuz is now actually a U.S. territory, both groups are also wildly out of touch. Thirty-eight percent (38%) of Trump-policy voters believe the Straight of Hormuz is now legally a U.S. territory, along with 41% of voters who talk politics daily.
Message Targeting
In an approaching midterm where the president's base is already excited about voting, Scott Rasmussen has been noting for months that the biggest Republican question for the midterms (other than the economy) is how Republicans can motivate Tradtional GOP voters to show up and vote.
The president's latest executive orders and declaration have the support of his base, but they fall completely flat with Traditional GOP voters, and just about everyone else.
This data is from a Napolitan News Service survey of 1,000 Registered Voters conducted online by Scott Rasmussen, August 31-September 1, 2026. RMG Research, Inc., conducted the field work for the survey. It has a margin of error of +/- 3.1.
