A new Pew Research Center survey of 3,554 U.S. adults conducted Aug. 4-10 shows that 58% of Americans favor allowing any voter to cast a ballot by mail, a stance President Donald Trump has pledged to reverse. Support for other voting measures is similarly strong: 80% back at least two weeks of early in-person voting, 83% favor requiring government-issued photo identification, 84% want electronic voting machines to produce a paper backup, and 74% endorse making Election Day a federal holiday. Views on mail voting are sharply partisan. While 83% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents support no-excuse mail ballots, 68% of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters oppose them. Republican support has fallen to 32%, down from 49% in 2020. Even so, residents in states that routinely mail ballots to all voters are more likely to approve the practice—46% of Republicans in those states favor it—than those in states that restrict absentee voting. The polling was released days after Trump renewed his promise to “lead a movement” to eliminate mail-in ballots and said he would sign an executive order ahead of the 2026 midterms. Election-law scholars note that the president has limited authority over state-run voting systems, and any attempt to ban mail voting would face immediate legal challenges. The survey underscores the political risk of such a move: a majority of the public—including roughly one in three Republicans—continues to back voting by mail despite the administration’s opposition.