MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough was taken aback Friday after new polling revealed that President Donald Trump had suffered a staggering 51-point swing in net approval among young voters in just a year’s time, something the “Morning Joe” host said he hadn’t seen in his entire career covering politics.
“I've never, in 32, 33 years following this very closely on the Hill, I have never seen 50-point swings,” Scarborough said. “Here we have a 51-point swing on the economy, a 51-point swing among [young] voters, and that's in the past year!”
According to a new YouGov/Economist poll, Trump’s approval among young voters – those between 18 and 29 years old – has cratered since he took office last year, dropping by 51 points to -42 net negative approval.
Trump’s approval on the economy has also cratered, dropping by 26 points among all voters when compared to the same point during his first presidency, and by a whopping 53 points among independents, a key voter bloc that helped hand Trump the presidency in 2024.
Scarborough called the abysmal polling “self-inflicted,” and cast blame directly on the Trump administration for its policies, particularly its push to construct immigration detention centers across the nation.
“They're not detention centers, they're internment camps! And they're building these internment camps all over the United States,” Scarborough said.
“If anybody in the White House is stupid enough to think people are going to allow internment camps in their communities... it's just going to make the situation worse! These internment camps will end up being another devastating blow, politically, to Republicans!”