Most Americans say country is on the wrong track, blame Trump for inflation, disapprove of the president and say he is going too far to expand power of presidency
Source: Jerry_bear88
Most Americans say country is on the wrong track, blame Trump for inflation, disapprove of the president and say he is going too far to expand power of presidency
Source: Jerry_bear88
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What amazes me though is that a third of Americans think they’re on the right track
>Two-thirds of Americans say that the country is “pretty seriously off on the wrong track,” while just under a third say the country is moving in the right direction, according to an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll conducted using Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel.
>Overall, Americans seem unhappy and anxious, with a slim majority saying the economy has gotten worse since President Donald Trump took office and majorities saying that both major parties and the president are out of touch. A majority of Americans are also growing increasingly concerned over the government shutdown.
>Far more Democrats (95%) and independents (77%) say the country is “pretty seriously off on the wrong track” than Republicans (29%), along with larger shares of Black (87%), Hispanic (71%) and Asian (71%) Americans than white Americans (61%). Majorities of Americans in urban, suburban and rural areas say the country is moving in the wrong direction, as well as those with varying levels of education and income.
>Although 67% say the country is moving in the wrong direction, that is a decrease from November 2024, when 75% said the same in the lead-up to the presidential election.
>About 6 in 10 Americans blame Trump for the current rate of inflation while more than 6 in 10 disapprove of how Trump is handling tariffs, the economy and managing the federal government; majorities also disapprove on how he is handling several other issues.
>And 64% of Americans say Trump is “going too far” in trying to expand the power of the presidency.
>At the same time, even more Americans say the Democratic Party is “out of touch with the concerns of most people in the United States today” (68%) than Trump (63%) and the Republican Party (61%).
>Nearly half of Americans (48%) say America’s leadership in the world has gotten weaker under Trump, while a third (33%) say it has gotten stronger and about 2 in 10 say it is the same (18%) — numbers that have not shifted significantly during his second term.
>Though it’s still a year from until the midterm elections, Americans’ negative ratings on the state of the country, the economy and the president do not bode well for the president’s party in congressional election voting.
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**2024 vote regret?**
>Wide majorities of both Trump and former Vice President Kamala Harris’ supporters say that voting for their candidates was “the right thing to do” in 2024.
>In all, 92% of Trump supporters say voting for him was the right thing to do, while only 7% say they regret it. An even larger share of Harris supporters say voting for her was the right thing to do, 97% to 3% who regret their vote. These numbers for Trump and Harris have not meaningfully shifted since this question was last asked in April.
He just hosted a party for the Epstein List with “exotic dancers” a plenty.
The entire admin exudes crass.
Let’s hope they remember in the next election…
No they don’t!
Duh.
You knew this would happen if he was elected. HE TOLD YOU EVERYTHING HE’S NOW DOING. Enjoy, you voted for him.
Yes. And they forgot to put in poll he’s a new tangerine banana
The worst aspect of this, practically speaking, is the weak Democratic leadership’s failure to exploit Trump’s monumental incompetence, stupidity, cruelty and hatred, to the party’s advantage. The poll results mentioned in the article seem to indicate public consensus is “a pox on both your houses.”
That could lead to a low participation in the 2026 midterm elections, which is our “Hail Mary” pass to delay Trump’s total destruction of American democracy. We can be sure that Trump’s MAGA cult followers will vote.
The fact that this is what Trump and his party all but said he was going to do and people still act surprised by this….let alone still blindly support it
Meanwhile, while about 40 million Americans won’t get their SNAP benefits on time and will struggle for basic survival, Trump threw a Mar-a-Lago Great Gatsby themed party.
He is a modern day Marie Antoinette.
Whenever I hear this guy say in an interview “I’m allowed to do it” I want to hear a reporter actually ask “Who allows you to?”
And yet they voted en masse for his “dictator from day 1” thing.
Ya think
We are on the wrong track, he is causing inflation to increase, we do disapprove and he is going too far with no one stopping him.
“And yet they don’t plan on voting in the next election.”
Wait until he sends the troops into every state in the nation by April. I hope more people wake up to what is going on here.
A good number of them know whom they voted for, so screw them.
Trump was president when the inflation started during supply chain disruptions that came with the outbreak of the COVID pandemic when he was President in 2020. He engaged in tomfoolery that made the response to the pandemic more difficult than it had to be. Why did anyone think he would actually do something to combat inflation now?
Apperently, most Americans like being on the wrong track.
There’s that small government conservatism
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Ya fukin think?
He is tearing down sections of the White House and renovating bathrooms with expensive marble, while hosting Great Gatsby parties at Mar A Lago for donors and Republican politicians
…..while even his very own supporters go without food, including their children.
Not only does he give zero fucks, he gives negative fucks.
54% of American adults read below a sixth grade level