Shocking results from a new CNN poll have revealed that a large number of Americans consider President Donald Trump's first year a "failure."
Trump's approval rating has dropped from 48% last February to 39% this year — and 58% say Trump's first year have been a failure.
Americans have rejected how Trump has handled several key issues, including immigration, the economy and health care. The poll pointed to a critical concern among Americans, with two thirds of voters saying the president has focused on the wrong things and that he doesn't care about people like them.
Phil Mattingly, CNN anchor and chief domestic correspondent, described the sentiment among voters and how their concerns have heightened over the last year.
"What I find most fascinating about the numbers is one, in the first year, this administration did an extraordinary amount of things and did so many of them through executive authority, unilateral action, pushing the boundaries of that authority to levels that we hadn't seen before," Mattingly said.
But those actions were not exactly what voters wanted, or anticipated, he explained.
"And in large part, they were things that the president actually campaigned on and said he was going to do," Mattingly added. "And I think the disconnect, at least based on the numbers we're looking at right now and from our reporting out in the field, is voters are saying we didn't really vote for that. We wanted the economy, we cared about prices. We cared about affordability, and we cared about immigration in the broad sense, not necessarily in the what we're seeing in the interior — in the viral video sense right now — and that has been, you know, you had a group of advisers and a president who were emboldened by an electoral victory that was without question and believed that they had a mandate. They are utilizing that mandate or pushing that mandate to a degree. We've seen this in the past with other administrations, to a degree that maybe voters aren't entirely comfortable with, and at least certainly aren't right now, based on the numbers we're seeing."