'I believed what Trump said —but not any more!' Behind the voters dumping Donald'
Donald Trump‘s approval ratings are dropping fast. He’s underwater in every poll, with a majority disapproving.
In a CBS poll released over the weekend, 59% of Americans said the economy is bad and getting worse. And a majority lays it at the feet of Trump, clearly seeing the chaos he unleashed with tariffs as a disaster, with 54% saying Trump's policies are more to blame for the bad economy and only 21 percent saying the blame is with Joe Biden.
This tracks with other recent polls. So Republicans and Trump himself can try to blame Biden until they’re blue in the face. That argument is only going to work with the most hard-core MAGA. And Republicans can’t win with just hard-core MAGA. They’re reportedly afraid of a “political wipeout.”
And it’s not just the economy. Young people who voted for Trump are leaving him in droves, horrified after seeing the deportations to torture prisons in El Salvador of people who’ve committed no crimes and the disappearing of international students on our streets. Trump is defying the Supreme Court on returning a man who was wrongly deported—sitting in the Oval Office with El Salvador’s self-proclaimed “world’s coolest dictator” yesterday and doubling down—something that is jarring many Americans and creating a constitutional crisis.
Then there are specific people who have influence, right-wing figures with big followings, who now say they were wrong to back Trump. Michelle Goldberg at the New York Times today tracks a “vibe shift,” in which “several people who once appeared to find transgressive right-wing ideas scintillating are having second thoughts as they watch Donald Trump’s administration put those ideas into practice.”
Donald Trump‘s approval ratings are dropping fast. He’s underwater in every poll, with a majority disapproving.
In a CBS poll released over the weekend, 59% of Americans said the economy is bad and getting worse. And a majority lays it at the feet of Trump, clearly seeing the chaos he unleashed with tariffs as a disaster, with 54% saying Trump's policies are more to blame for the bad economy and only 21 percent saying the blame is with Joe Biden.
This tracks with other recent polls. So Republicans and Trump himself can try to blame Biden until they’re blue in the face. That argument is only going to work with the most hard-core MAGA. And Republicans can’t win with just hard-core MAGA. They’re reportedly afraid of a “political wipeout.”
And it’s not just the economy. Young people who voted for Trump are leaving him in droves, horrified after seeing the deportations to torture prisons in El Salvador of people who’ve committed no crimes and the disappearing of international students on our streets. Trump is defying the Supreme Court on returning a man who was wrongly deported—sitting in the Oval Office with El Salvador’s self-proclaimed “world’s coolest dictator” yesterday and doubling down—something that is jarring many Americans and creating a constitutional crisis.
Then there are specific people who have influence, right-wing figures with big followings, who now say they were wrong to back Trump. Michelle Goldberg at the New York Times today tracks a “vibe shift,” in which “several people who once appeared to find transgressive right-wing ideas scintillating are having second thoughts as they watch Donald Trump’s administration put those ideas into practice.”
