Trump will move U.S. to the right. But voters may only back him up to a point

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : In his victory speech early Wednesday, Trump claimed voters had given him a "powerful mandate.
55% : Immediately after the election, interest rates rose as bond investors began to price in the possibility of renewed inflation under Trump.
46% : Many Democrats believe he will back a renewed Republican effort to make deep cuts in Medicaid and cut health insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, which make coverage possible for tens of millions of Americans.
43% : The campaign showed, and exit polls confirmed, that a broad swath of voters mostly want Trump to do two things -- ensure against another bout of inflation and reduce the number of immigrants entering the U.S.There's much less reason to think voters long to hand broad government authority over to Elon Musk or give Robert F. Kennedy Jr. control of federal health policy.
42% : Any president has the authority to tell the Justice Department to drop a case, and Trump has said he will do so and fire special counsel Jack Smith "within two seconds.
32% : And there's little public support for Trump to go on a revenge spree against his Democratic opponents.
32% : Trump hasn't yet been sentenced in the New York case -- sentencing is currently set for Nov. 26 -- but the judge could dismiss the case before a Tuesday deadline or postpone sentencing indefinitely, and any sanction beyond a fine is deemed to be unlikely.
31% : That's consistent with how voters viewed Trump overall: More than half said they believed his views were "too extreme."
30% : They might feel otherwise, however, if Trump follows through on his threats to use federal power to go after his political opponents.
29% : Trump has vowed to adopt "the biggest domestic deportation campaign in American history."
29% : Those cases, however, aren't as much of a threat to Trump as the federal prosecutions were.
29% : Both of those steps would provoke outrage from liberals -- something Trump appears to enjoy -- but Tuesday's results strongly suggest a majority of voters won't care much.
28% : Beyond shutting down the cases against him, Trump for nearly two years has suggested he would pardon some or all of the people convicted of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, many of whom were convicted of attacking law enforcement officers.
27% : When Trump moved against immigrants in his first term, many Americans believed he went too far.
26% : The problem is that Trump doesn't want to do nothing.
24% : Trump can't similarly eliminate the two criminal cases against him in state court -- the New York hush money and fraud case on which he was convicted in May and the Georgia case on which he was indicted on charges of interfering with the 2020 election.
23% : The efforts to prosecute Trump for federal crimes are over.
22% : Trump will come under a lot of pressure from the antiabortion wing of the Republican Party to impose new restrictions.
21% : But this time around, Trump avoided committing himself to repealing the healthcare law, a crusade that ended in political disaster for him last time.
21% : All that suggests Democrats failed to convince a big swath of voters that Trump significantly threatened abortion rights.

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