James Campbell
3 Mar 2025
Two-thirds of voters want a prime minister who can manage Australia’s relationship with US President Donald Trump – and consider Peter Dutton best equipped to do so.
The new RedBridge-Accent poll of 20 marginal seats, 31 per cent of voters rate the Opposition Leader as the best able to manage the relationship compared to 22 per cent for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
Of the 63 per cent who want the relationship more closely managed, voters over 65 were both more likely to say they thought managing the relationship was important to how they would vote and much more likely to say Mr Dutton would be best to handle it than younger voters aged between 18 and 34.
On the question of whether Australia should have a closer or more distant relationship with Mr Trump and the United States, voters were reasonably evenly split.
Almost a third – 30 per cent – thought Australia should be closer to the US while 29 per cent thought the country should be more distant and 35 per cent thought it should stay the same.
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