Trump's Approval Rating Takes a Nosedive

Trump's Approval Rating Takes a Nosedive

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:35):
There's also plenty of stuff that did continue to permeate
in the news. We will talk about the continued fallout
of the Coldplay couple as they're now being called, and
we will talk about that and kind of an interesting
question that was posed to me this morning, and it's
a bit of a different angle on the whole thing
than what we were talking about before. But first and foremost,

(00:59):
I want to to talk about attitude. I wanted to
talk about the attitude of the United States and people
who live here over the weekend yesterday, to be specific,
Donald Trump said, well, he celebrated six months in office,
and that's not nothing, right, Like, six months is one
eighth of the way through a four year term. It

(01:20):
is a way to, you know, at some point look
at you know, and reflect on things that are happening.
When we work in our job, in our industry, a
lot of times you'll do a six month check up,
right of like, okay, so after six months, where are
we do we feel good? Are we in a spot
where we are excited and interested about your growth? You know,

(01:43):
those things look different, and you know, when you're working
in the job like we work, you know, you can
kind of grow into your job a little bit. When
you're the president of the United States, especially if you'd
done the job before. You were hitting the ground running.
And Donald Trump made it very clear the first you know,
one hundred days, we're going to be consequential, and we
were going at break neck pace is what he called it.
Everything was changing. Sounds dangerous, yeah, break neck Maybe we

(02:06):
need to come up with an alternative to that one.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Because people have died.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Who who wants to who wants to break their neck? Right? Like,
I don't think anybody. But anyway, it was going fast,
a lot of things that were going on. I got
a poll here which was done by you gov and
CBS News. They did this together. They got the information
July sixteenth through the eighteenth and release it over the
weekend as part of the six months that Donald Trump

(02:32):
has been in office. And I have the total overall
approval rating. And this you got to keep in mind.
Margin of error is roughly two and a half points.
And I will reiterate that I am not the biggest
believer that you can learn everything under the sun with
a pole. But if you don't think politicians use polls,
you would be wrong. If you don't think politicians strategize

(02:54):
around poll results, you would also be wrong. Now, maybe
the publication itself you might have beef with, and you
would trust a poll from someone else. That's great, that's awesome.
I have a poll here which I find to be
quite fascinating, and it's a poll that they have basically
been doing a variation of every few weeks since Donald
Trump's inauguration. So I can go back to February early February,

(03:20):
when Donald Trump was just a few weeks into his
term and see what people thought then from the same
publication and what people think now now. There are some
details in here, and I'm going to get to those,
some of the things about illegal immigration, some of the
things about deportation, some of the things about the big
beautiful bill and how Americans feel about that and what

(03:43):
their poll looks like. I'll get to that in a second.
Trump's overall approval rating by everyone who was asked and
they tried, they said, they tried CBS News and Yugov
to try to get this to be as evenly split
in three groups. Democratic grew, a Republican group, and an
independent group, and they wanted to try to get as

(04:05):
many late like they want to have representation across all three.
So keep in mind this is done with the intent.
I don't know have the exact numbers in front of
me of how successful they were, but they did have
a pretty balanced group with all three of those areas addressed.
Trump's overall approval rating on February ninth, this is just

(04:28):
a few weeks after he had been inaugurated, was fifty
three percent, which was being celebrated as one of the
highest that we'd seen a president have at all. Even
early it was higher than any approval rating Trump had
in his first term, and there was a lot of optimism,
there was a lot of excitement. By early March, it
had gone from fifty three to fifty one, not a

(04:48):
whole lot there, you know, that's within the margin of ara.
By the end of March it was down to fifty,
which again didn't seem to be that big of a problem.
I don't think a lot of people were too concerned
about that. Fifty to fifty in for a president, that's
pretty good actually, And again it's within the margin of
era of the fifty three percent ish that we saw
at the beginning of his term. So by the end

(05:10):
of March, you know, we're a couple solid months in.
People still seemingly felt pretty good about what was going on.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Now.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Early in April was when Liberation Day happened, as he
called it, which was tariffs and how tariffs operate, and
we learned how that was going to affect the stock market,
and it did. And then by the second week of April,
a pause was put on the tariffs to negotiate for
trade deals. By the second week of April, the fourth
Trumpelpool rating poll went out by Yugov and CBS News,

(05:41):
and he had dipped to forty seven percent, which a
little bit, losing three points over a couple of weeks
isn't ideal, But it was still forty seven percent even
after that because a lot of people I think got
spooked by the tariffs and saw what the stock market
was doing. Even that that's not an end all be
all on the economy, of economists said I'm not exactly

(06:01):
sure that this is a good thing for the US.
And even after the pause, three percent drop. A couple
of weeks after that, in late April it was forty
five percent. So it continued to drop a little bit.
Then over the last couple of months as ICE deportations
and operations ramped up. What did it look like, Well,
it's held steady for a bit at that forty five

(06:24):
or so percent. But after the Los Angeles riots began
in response to the ice enforcement, and then there were
similar or copycat type protests that were happening around the country.
Saw a little bit of that here in Omaha when
this poll came out over the weekend, he's down to

(06:44):
forty two percent. So from the beginning of February to now,
over just under six months, of the actual pull itself,
and six months of his presidential term, Donald Trump has
lost eleven points eleven percent on his approval rating. You
might say, okay, well, big deal, what does that mean?
What does that say? Well, when I get to the

(07:04):
overall approval rating by political party or a political affiliation,
you might feel a bit differently. If you don't, that's okay,
But I'm going to tell you why it matters. And
I'll do that next right after this on news radio
eleven ten KFAB and Vere Songer on news radio eleven
ten KFAB. You might say, CBS newsy Hey, Donald Trump. Yeah,

(07:26):
you could say that, and I wouldn't attempt to correct you.
But polls are a bit different, right, And they've been
doing a poll for better part of six months that
Donald Trump's been in office, and I've been able to
you can kind of follow the patterns, and I've picked
out when they've released these polls and what those patterns
are in this same group of people who are trying
to ask three relatively equal groups of Democrats, Republicans and

(07:49):
independence what they think of things. In the overall approval rating,
Donald Trump is at fifty three percent in February and
it's been a steady decline to now where he's at
forty two percent, and I think the latest bumped down
as ICE enforcement related. And again I'm not here advocating
ICE shouldn't be doing their job. I'm just reporting what
I'm seeing here and what I think it means. We'll

(08:09):
get to the specifics of that, the ICE and illegal
immigration part of this poll, but first, the overall job
rating I mentioned forty two percent overall. This was a
poll that came out over the weekend, by party, by
party affiliation. Here is the overall job rating Democrats. Ninety
five percent disapprove. It's actually shocking to me that they

(08:31):
found five percent of the Democrats asked in this poll
actually approved the job that he was doing. Maybe they
were doing it facetiously, maybe they were doing it by,
you know, being sarcastic, but that is realistic to me.
Ninety five percent of Democrats don't think Donald Trump's doing
a good job. No matter what Donald Trump would do,
probably most of those ninety five percent would still say
they don't approve of the job he's doing. Partisan politics

(08:54):
in America in twenty twenty five, same would be happening
if a Democrat was in office, and the Republicans were
asked if they approve or disapprove well with the Republican office. Now,
Republicans were asked, do you approve or disapprove of what
Donald Trump is doing? Eighty nine percent said they approve.
Eleven percent so they disapprove. You can say I'm surprised
that eleven percent of Republicans disapprove, but I would challenge

(09:16):
you to speak with a lot of Republicans or even
go online. There is a sector of Republicans that have
been anti Trump since twenty fifteen when he started to
gain steam as a potential candidate for president, and they've
been anti Trump ever since because of what it's meant
to what the Republican Party was that they know that
they feel right and how frustrated that you know, some

(09:40):
Republicans are that this is kind of how the this
is the reputation now of the Republican Party, and they
feel like this is bat Regardless of what Trump does,
there's going to be a section of Republicans I think
that will say I'm not interested now. I think there's
some of these that are Trump supporters that are not
happy with the job that he's doing. Mostly on prices,
but it's not that big of a number, only eleven

(10:01):
percent disapprove. Then it comes to the other third of
this poll, the independent voters. Well, you can be doing
the math in your head. Ninety five percent disapprove for
the Democrats, eighty nine percent approved for the Republicans. It's
pretty equal. If we just left it there, it might
be fifty to fifty in the poll, but we know
it's forty two percent, which means that the independents are
generally disapproving. Over two thirds disapprove from the Independent Party

(10:26):
or independent voters, sixty eight percent disapprove, thirty two percent approof.
You have to wonder, right, what kind of positive momentum
could an administration get or will this be much like
Trump's first term or Biden's term, where it just feels
like more and more people are frustrated and unhappy as
time goes on. I've long held this theory that it

(10:49):
doesn't matter who the president is, doesn't matter I go
to a job that the president does, they will pull
usually under fifty percent for approval rating, and more people
than not will say that the president isn't doing a
good job, mostly because they just reiterate what they hear
from people in the news and the people around them,
And it's so easy to complain. I mean, it's true
in any walk of life or any job. Honestly, you're

(11:12):
going to hear more about the stuff that's bad, then
you're going to hear about the stuff that it's good.
And you don't really make a lot of like, there's
no way in reality to talk to people about trying
to feel differently unless you just get them more educated.
That'd be like the only thing, right, Well, learn more,
read more, you might change your mind. How would you
feel if somebody came up to you and told you

(11:33):
to do that? What'd you do it?

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Now?

Speaker 1 (11:35):
They did ask what is the most important or what
are the important factors? And here are the four categories
that were asked in this poll of what matters a
lot to you? Right, matters a lot, matters, some matters none,
or a little. Number one was immigration and deportation. Sixty
one percent in this poll said immigration and deportation matters

(11:58):
a lot in your evaluation of Trump's presentiency. Now I'll
get to the numbers on immigration and deportation and why
I think it's very strange. Some of the numbers here,
and I think it's a lot of people not just
not being educated properly. But I'll give you the numbers anyway,
But the fact that still six months into Trump's presidency,
when we've basically shut the border closed, and he's doing
what he said he would do and trying to deport

(12:19):
people who don't belong in this nation, whether it's illegal
immigrants with dangerous pass or just people who have, like
we saw here in Omaha, utilized Everify and used identity
theft essentially to get themselves the job. Either way, I
think people are generally okay around me, at least of
trying to clean this mess up. It's being done the

(12:41):
way it was said it was going to be done,
but now that it's happening, still sixty one percent say
it's the most important thing to them. Fifty six percent
said inflation and prices, and that's another thing. Prices haven't
really come down yet. Fifty six percent of the One
Big Beautiful Bill Act, which again a lot of people
are pretty polarized on, and a lot of it has
to with just not knowing what is or is in

(13:02):
this that's going to affect our day to day life.
And then thirty six percent of the Epstein cases matters
a lot to them, So over a third of people
still think that matters a lot. I promise I'm going
to try not to talk about that today. As far
as this immigration situation, the deportations and detentions of people

(13:23):
have gotten people's eyebrows raised and kind of I think
has alerted people based on coverage of what deporting people
looks like for real, not just the talk, but actually
doing it. And a question was said, Trump administration is
trying to deport more people than you expected, fewer people
than you expected, or about what you expected. Fifty two

(13:43):
percent said more people than you expected, thirty seven percent
said about what you respect. Only eleven percent said fewer
people than you expected. If you showed those numbers to
people before the inauguration, I think a lot of people,
especially Republicans, especially Independence, especially minority Independence, who said I
want this to be cleaned up too, this is bad
for us too. Well, if you would have shown this

(14:03):
number to people, I think they would have been generally happy.
Apparently that is not the case. Who is Trump administration
prioritizing for deportation? This was a question that was asked
a month ago by the same poll by CBS News
in Yugov and fifty three percent last month said dangerous criminals. Well,
fast forward to now, after a bunch of these operations
at places like you know, are that food factory here
in Omaha. Well, I think a lot of people have

(14:26):
changed how they're viewing this. Now they're saying fifty six
percent say people who aren't dangerous criminals are getting prioritized
for deportation. They're saying, maybe that's one of the hang
ups here. I didn't know that was what we're prioritizing,
people who actually aren't dangerous criminals. I thought we were
getting rid of dangerous criminals. And then comes detention facilities

(14:48):
and how we are viewing detention facilities. Alligator Alcatraz probably
the highest profile of these, and the videos and you know,
people going on a tour and saying this is actually
really good, good for the detention facilities and all this stuff.
But when you walk in there, it looks like a
variation of kind of a Humane Society dog kennel with

(15:09):
a roof on it, and it's like a kind of
a makeshift small jail set up with chain link fences
everywhere on the inside and people in this country. That
doesn't say me. It's not to say conservatives who are
in favor of trying to clean up the illegal immigration
in this country, but probably the independent voter sees that

(15:30):
and says, wow, that's what they do to people who
are nonviolent criminals who just during this country illegally, because
they're not putting two and two together about the crime
of illegal immigration itself, they're just saying, wow, that's a
pretty inhumane way to handle this. Not that I agree,
but fifty eight percent in this poll oppose the detention facilities,
and by party, sixty six percent of people in the

(15:51):
independent zone independent voters oppose it. So two thirds of
independent voters are opposing the way that the detention facilities
are used. You don't have to do a lot of
math to see if the independent voters are going to
be two thirds in opposition of a lot of things
Trump is doing. His approval rating will be low, and
it's not a good sign for the midterms next year.

(16:13):
It could be a really bad sign of things continue
to deteriorate, not just for next year, but potentially for
whoever's getting the handoff in the Republican Party for twenty
twenty eight, just throwing this out here. Now, I got
some more immigration, big beautiful bill, inflation and price related
questions that we're in this poll that I'll read and
if you'd like to be a part of the conversation,
I'll go ahead and open the phones four oh two

(16:35):
five five eight eleven ten. Four oh two, five five
eight eleven ten, and we'll talk to you here on
news Radio eleven ten Kfab and Marie sometime in the
three pm hour, we're gonna do the We're gonna do
the Leonard Skinner.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
How about that.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
You're gonna corroborate, You're gonna You're gonna hold my feet
to the flames if I forget we.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
Uh, it's crazy that we're spending the time machine on this, Like,
of all the things we could be doing, we're putting
some people in a time machine so they can go
back and see Leonard Skinner. I think we could be
doing something cooler. But there you go, three o'clock hour,
line up for it.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
You're right, yeah, well there you go. If that didn't
make you excited for it, then I don't know what.
Well you got it. Approval of a deportation program here
in the United states. I know this is completely off topic.
If you're just shooting here, you're like, Wow, what a
crazy left turn that was. Well the entire first half hour.
I have been really fascinated by the results of a
CBS News poll in YouGov poll. They co authored this,

(17:30):
and they did this last toward the end of last
week and released it yesterday as part of Donald Trump's
six months in office.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
The guy from Home Alone two.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, that gug the one that tells him to go
down the hall and to the left.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
Huh, we're still talking about that guy.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
He's in Little Rascals. Also, he is the dad of
Waldo the Rich Kid, which is kind of a funny
cameo looking back at it now, because you're just like, oh,
I forgot Donald Trump shows up in this movie. He's
at a soapbox derby.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Race and the guy from the Pizza Hut commercial. Yeah,
and the guy what's approval ratings of that commercial or what?

Speaker 2 (18:04):
No? No?

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Because the commercial, I mean most commercials you go back
and rewatch them for nostalgia. But I think we've gotten
a lot better at marketing these days. For the most part,
some companies have not remember that Jaguar commercial where they
were all dressed up in the crazy rainbow outfits and
they didn't show a single car in the entire thirty
second ad. Well, Jaguar has like completely tanked thanks in

(18:25):
part to their marketing efforts. So yeah, other than that,
I think we've gotten pretty good at the marketing thing.
Donald Trump also was a WWE Hall of Famer and
was in the corner of Bobby Lashley I think in
two thousand and six or seven when he won a
major match at WrestleMania and then Donald Trump got the
shave Vince McMahon's heead.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
I wonder what do you have for breakfast?

Speaker 1 (18:44):
It's pretty interesting anyway. So Trump, as his presidency rolls
on the program to deport immigrants illegally in the United States.
Do you agree or disagree with this? This was a
question that was in this poll and back in February
the first poll, and on February ninth when this poll
was released. And this is one of the reason why
I'm kind of enraptured by this poll because a cat

(19:05):
I mean, we can go back six months essentially and
see how people have changed their opinions as they've been asked.
And in February fifty nine percent approved the program to
immigrants illegally in the United States, Like, if they were
an illegal immigrant in the US, we were going to
deport them. This was going to help, not just fix
the problem at the border. We did that. You know,

(19:26):
we've shut the slam the door shut down at the border.
You're not seeing a lot of illegal immigrants getting into
this country and being allowed to stay, not like the
thousands that we were seeing on a day to day
basis a year ago to a year and a half ago. Especially,
that was really you know, building momentum is the most
important thing that people were paying attention to. Apparently still

(19:46):
the most important thing according to this poll that people
are paying attention to, even though now it's gone to
Donald Trump wanting to actually follow through on what he
said he wanted to do with the deportation man. Fifty
nine percent of people we were asked in a survey
in February of do you approve of the administration's program

(20:06):
to deport illegal immigrants in the US? Fifty nine percent
said I approve and only forty one percent to disapprove.
That's an eighteen point split. That is not small. That
is a large, large split. And in June, it still
was at least a healthy split, well beyond the margin
of era fifty four percent approved, forty six percent disapproved.

(20:27):
But that was when the ice stuff really started to escalate.
The stuff in Los Angeles got headlines. We were paying
attention to that for you know, it was probably the
most important story in the US for about a week.
Anytime that happens, that shines a light and kind of
changes people's opinions on how they should feel about it,
even if they themselves don't exactly know why they feel
the way they feel. Maybe they feel the way they

(20:48):
feel because the news told them to. Maybe it's just Oh,
I didn't know this was such a controversial topic. Oh
I didn't know this was going to lead to people,
you know, assaulting you know, officers who are attempting the enforcement.
And I also didn't think that normal people that were
just working at factories in our small towns, we're going
to be targeted. Maybe it's just an education problem. I
don't know. But now after all of that, it's down

(21:09):
to forty nine percent approve fifty one percent disapprove. So
instead of an eighteen point split in the positive, it's
now a two point split. In the negative, and yes
it's within the margin of era, but still that's a huge
change from what we were seeing five and a half
months ago when the first Trump poll came out from
CBS News in you gov as far as Trump's program

(21:30):
to deport immigrants illegally in the US by party, and again,
gotta be honest with you, the only number you should
care about is the independent number here. But eighty six
percent disapproved from the Democrats. Ninety one percent of Republicans approve,
but the split right now for disapproval to approval is
fifty nine to forty one, So fifty nine percent of
independent voters also are disapproving of the way that the

(21:53):
program is operating here to deport immigrants in the United
States now, of course, for deportation searches. The next question
was do you think Hispanic people are subject to more
searches than others, fewer searches than others, or the same amount,
And of course forty six percent of people feel that
way because you know, you notice, right like, if you're

(22:15):
a Latino or a Hispanic person, no matter where you live,
I don't know if you felt in this moment at
least in your life. So far that you've been racially
profiled one way or the other. There are a lot
of people who are of Hispanic or Latino heritage that
are here legally. You would think they would have nothing
to worry about. Well, at the same time, you might

(22:37):
not have the same type of relationships as you had before.
You might feel like the government itself is looking at
you differently than before. Maybe even people that as you
go and get a job, if your last name is
of Latino background and you're looking to get a job,
are you finding it to be more difficult because businesses
are trying to be more diligent with their work and

(23:00):
trying to find out if those people are indeed who
they say they are. Because we just had, you know,
eighty people here in Omaha working at a food factory
that we're using other people's identities to kind of fake
it through the everified process and got hired to do
the job. It's quite I mean, it's quite interesting. But
when you ask that question and then you follow it

(23:21):
up with do you think Hispanic people that are subject
to more searches? Is that fair or unfair? And seventy
eight percent of people across the I mean, this would
be across the entire board, and with a number of
this large seventy eight percent said it's unfair seventy eight percent.
So I think there's a changing sentiment more than anything,
I think that you could talk to yourself and get

(23:42):
yourself to the point where you're like, you know, is
this what I voted for? Did we vote for the
idea of this? And now that it's actually happening, that
we're not super happy? I mean, you want to talk
about a way that we can draw an analogy to
the Coldplay couple? Right, was the idea of being with
this new exciting woman better than the actual moment of

(24:04):
being with this live and exciting woman. I certainly think
that ideas and this is a thing that when you
could talk to a therapists are going to talk to
you about getting yourself kind of stuck in fantasyland, daydreaming
about what things could happen in December or January or
even though Vember, when people were voting and you knew
that Donald Trump was going to institute this and try
to clean up immigration in this country. The illegal immigrants

(24:27):
were not going to be able to come into to
this country and be allowed to stay, and the people
that were here, especially people with criminal backgrounds, including people
that are criminal because they came across the border illegally
and stole someone's identity. Those people get deported. I would
tell you, I thought I would think most people would
be excited about the prospect of fixing that problem. Now

(24:49):
that the problem is being fixed, though in all the
rigmarole that's going on with it, people seem to be
changing their tune. This goes to the next question that
I'm asking you. Is there any way to make America
happy no matter what we do, no matter what a
president says he'll do, even when he does exactly what
he says he's going to do. Do people just not
in their mind have in their you know, kind of
their own perspective that this is or is it a

(25:14):
good thing? As soon as it happens, do they're just like, Oh,
I'm not sure. I like that. Change is hard. I
don't know. But to see these numbers change, even though
this really does feel like it's everything that Trump said
he would do, especially with independent voters, how do you
claw back from that? Right, you're just doing what you
said you would do when you thought that's why people
elected you. With the mandate that people said that was

(25:35):
in existence. Maybe the attitude will change as the numbers change.
I'm not sure. Got some more on this, and we'll
wrap this conversation up coming up. It's two forty eight
on news radio eleven ten Kfab.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
Emery Sunger on news radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
Poll from CBS News and you Gov and I talked
about immigration and all that stuff. The One Big Beatle
Bill was kind of interesting because I think more people,
including a lot of Republicans, are kind of confused as
to how this helps them or what effect it's going
to have on their life. People were asked, is the
Trump administration focusing on lowering prices? Not enough, the right

(26:15):
amount or too much? Seventy percent of people said not enough.
And I think this is the fear more than anything
for Republicans. When Trump was elected, was with all these
tariffs and all this stuff, right, It's like, you know,
can we just focus on what we're doing right now?
And I don't know if that's going to help with
cost of stuff or if he just wanted to kind

(26:36):
of really leave a legacy of foreign policy and he
needed to do the tariff thing early in his term,
so it became normal before he leaves in twenty twenty
at the beginning of twenty nine, because things can be
undone by the you know, a Democrat who would potentially
take office in that situation. Seventy percent said he's spending
not enough time on lowering prices. Sixty one percent said

(26:58):
too much time on the tap griffs new tariffs on
imported good Sixty percent of Americans say they opposed that
that certainly is going to involve a lot of the
independent voters and not just people back and forth and
the handling of inflation. A few months ago, back in March,
the same organizations asked the same question, do you approve
or disapprove of Trump? Hammed Trump's handling of inflation? Well,

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in March, fifty four percent said disapprove, so a little
bit more to the disapproved side, But now that numbers
ballooned up to sixty four percent. Thirty six percent approve.
I think people are getting more and more impatient with
the fact that prices haven't come down for one reason
or another. Donald Trump said that would be something that
he would attempt to do and things would be much
more affordable for the average American family. Now he's saying
things like this stuff takes time and you just have

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to be patient because that stuff isn't like the president
doesn't control all of that directly, which I think is true,
but it's also fairly hypocritical the way that we blame
our president that the previous president for how terrible inflation was,
and I think I think rightly so in a lot
of cases because of the stimulus packages, the you know,

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whole Bidenomics thing, and how that just seemed to kind
of whiff totally on the way the economy had been
working in that moment. And then you look at Donald Trump,
who was just like, well, I'm going to fix a
lot of these problems, but a lot of the stuff
prices out there haven't really changed, especially when you're talking
about people and just the general cost of living. The

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other thing, with the one big beautiful bill, what will
it be? What will the effect be on your family?
And right now, forty seven percent said it will hurt them,
for twenty eight percent said it won't have much of
an effect, and twenty five percent said it will help them. Again,
it's confusing when you're trying to explain nine hundred plus
pages of a piece of legislation that has a ton

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of different stuff in there between things. I think that
is going to create a you know, pretty large amount
of discrepancy. And how people feel about it is that
you're just hearing all the bad stuff from the news
outlets and from people who are trying to actively oppose
what this president is attempting to do. A lot of
different stuff in here. They had some fscene things. I

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don't want to spend time on that. We already know
how we feel about it, but it definitely seems like
it's still a very important thing to a lot of
people who are in this poll, and they just want
to answers on it. I think people want answers on
a lot of stuff. The last thing that we can do,
maybe the best last thing that we can do, is
trust our own gut, in our own judgment. But I
just don't know if we are armed with the right

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amount of information to be completely fair in these types
of conversations. And I think it's quite interesting that these
poll kind of bear that out over time. If you
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