Longtime Republican Party pollster Sarah Longwell is conducting focus groups with voters of President Donald Trump — and she's beginning to see some "buyer remorse."
MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace introduced the segment, playing the comments from a participant who voted for Trump.
"There's a lot of babies being tossed out with the bath water, to use an old-fashioned phrase, in this first few weeks and, of course, as usual, and I'm disappointed about this with President Trump because he served before, we're just forfeiting respect internationally daily," said one Trump voter.
"If we had a drinking game where everyone took a drink when word 'reverse course' or 'walking this back,' we'd be drunk in 20 minutes. It's chaos up there," he added.
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"I think what we're starting to see is the very beginning of buyer's remorse setting in," said Longwell. "And the voters that I was talking to — both before the election — and after the election that are kind of these, we say, low-information. But we just mean people who aren't tapped into politics all the time. They voted for Donald Trump for one very specific reason. They thought things were too expensive. And they still think things are too expensive."
What is coming up now, she said, is that they don't like Trump's priorities.
"They're like, what is he focusing on? I didn't vote for this dismantling of the government!" said Longwell.
She noted that there are people online who are excited about DOGE, but the people she spoke to are citing friends or family members who are dealing with the government purge. This isn't just a "message" from Democrats.
"It's that people are experiencing negative personal consequences as a result," Longwell explained, noting Musk's work is simply that "vast."
"You know, Donald Trump — you can see it in the poll numbers. I can hear it in the focus groups, like it's already starting to turn. And that is a bad sign for Trump because honeymoons, even for him — he was getting a pretty muted honeymoon. But honeymoons still usually last a little bit longer than this."
She said that it isn't merely the price of eggs anymore – adult kids are now forced to move back home after losing their federal jobs.
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