It’s all in regards to the cash, child.
On Wednesday’s episode of “Early Start With Rahel Solomon,” CNN’s chief knowledge analyst Harry Enten stated that almost all American voters don’t assume President Donald Trump “gives a hoot” in regards to the present state of the financial system — and that the Republican Occasion “should be scared s-h-blank-blank-blank-less” about it.
“Donald Trump might be trying to downplay voters’ concerns about affordability, but I’m here to tell you that is a ginormous error,” Enten stated. “It may be an error that goes down in political infamy.”
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Enten went on to elucidate that knowledge exhibits that in the course of the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, extra Individuals trusted that Trump was extra able to fixing “the problem of inflation” than his opponent, former Vice President Kamala Harris.
A yr later, nevertheless, plainly most voters really feel like Trump offered them nothing greater than a bunch of ineffective snake oil with regards to his financial insurance policies.
“Look at where we are today. Donald Trump is underwater with the Titanic when it comes to inflation,” Enten stated, noting that the president’s web approval ranking is now 26 factors within the damaging.
“My goodness gracious,” Enten stated about Trump’s plummeting numbers.
Enten went on to level out that Trump’s go-to tactic of passing “the political buck” when “things aren’t going his way” isn’t going to fly this time, particularly if he’s putting the blame on his predecessor, former President Joe Biden.
“That, simply put, will not work,” Enten stated, pointing to knowledge sourced from “poll after poll after poll” that indicated that 54% of voters consider that Trump is extra answerable for their monetary woes, in comparison with the 21% who blame Biden.
“Now, of course, it’s one thing if voters don’t like the state of the economy,” Enten stated. “But it’s another thing when they don’t think that Donald Trump actually gives a hoot.”
He then pulled up knowledge that confirmed that 75% of voters really feel that Trump is “not paying enough attention to lowering costs” — and that this opinion is held by 57% of Republicans.
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Enten stated that the GOP “should be scared s-h-blank-blank-blank-less” over Trump’s let-them-eat-cake vibes, as a result of voters are clearly ticked off. Enten pointed to Democrats’ massive wins in native elections earlier this month, and famous that midterm elections are in a yr.
“If these numbers hold and Donald Trump continues to try [to] ignore a problem that Americans very much think we have in terms of cost of living, affordability, well, it might be adios, amigos.”
“Goodbye for that House majority, and I daresay, the Republican Senate majority as well,” Enten stated.
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Humorous sufficient, not-so-dumb actor Jeff Daniels made the same name earlier this yr when he advised MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace in July that he hopes Trump voters are “losing tons of money.”
“I think, at the end of the day, that’s what’s going to do it,” the Emmy-winner stated of Trump supporters turning on the president due to cash. “‘Wait a minute, the grocery bill is what, $180 more? I can’t get that car that we have to have unless I pay another $8,000. What? Who do I blame for that? Who do I see about that?’ One person.”
