I do not believe this for a fucking second.
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Polls from Gallup, Ipsos, CNN, and Quinnipiac show Trump's approval rating between 45-47% while one from YouGov puts him exactly at 50%.
This poll:
Donald Trump's favorability stands at 50%, with a net favorable of +7 points.
Most notably, Trump is outperforming Biden’s public perception across a variety of issues. Of those surveyed by the Harvard/Harris poll, 58% said Trump is doing better overall now than Biden at the end of his term in January.
—On the economy, 49% approved of Trump’s handling compared to just 37% for Biden at the end of his term.
People thinking Trump is doing better than Biden is different than people thinking Trump is doing well. It's definitely biased by Trump blaming everything going wrong with the destruction of the federal government on Biden, and DEI and wokeness etc.
The parts of the economy that are/were going well are from Biden's inflation reduction measures. Likewise, the shit economy in 2021 was what Trump's COVID response brought him. Like it sounds like a double standard on the surface, but the idea is that Trump and Musk are currently breaking the government, but people are only going to start feeling it in a few months.
The parts of the economy that are/were going well are from Biden’s inflation reduction measures. Likewise, the shit economy in 2021 was what Trump’s COVID response brought him. Like it sounds like a double standard on the surface, but the idea is that Trump and Musk are currently breaking the government, but people are only going to start feeling it in a few months.
That's a fucking dream. People don't react to reality. They react to their perceptions. And everything has been tee'd up for the Trump regime to dictate the perception of the mass of Americans who don't follow politics or don't care, in addition to already controlling the perceptions of their party-line goons.
Trump, like Hitler, will be able to run the country into the ground, and still have majority support a decade after everything has been turned to rubble.
People are going to feel the devastating effects. I never said people would be able to properly attribute that feeling to the accurate causes. Like you say, they will attribute it to whatever they are told to.
Did they only poll my uncle?
More turkies prefer Christmas and believe they'll never eat better again.
Biden will forever be tied to bad performance (caused by COVID). The better poll would be Trump v. Obama.
The stance that "they are all just too stupid to know better" is counterproductive and needs to stop being used. If you are so intelligent why can't you find persuasive relatable talking points that will inspire more voters to show up and vote for you? Maybe you are not as knowledgeable as you believe or we wouldn't even be having this conversation.
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