In an interview with the New York Times' Frank Bruni, two notable pollsters claimed Donald Trump has his work cut out for him to get his approval numbers up.
According to one pollster, Trump is not caught up in a "death spiral" but he is pushing his luck.
Discussing voters' attitudes about the job the president is doing with the economy –– a central plank of Trump's appeal in the 2024 election –– Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson warned the president and the GOP, "I would be concerned about some of the softness I am seeing in numbers around areas like the economy that used to be real strengths for Trump."
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She added, "If it ends up fine, this will be something of a distant memory come the 2026 midterms. 'If' is doing a huge amount of work in that sentence."
According to pollster Nate Silver, Trump's approval numbers have seen a slight rebound, but that could change quickly once the damage being created by Trump's trade war hits consumers' pocketbooks.
Noting the president's controversial tariffs "have produced some of the lowest consumer confidence numbers since the 2008 recession," Silver stated "Trump has somewhat backed off the tariffs, the hard economic data hasn’t been as bad as consumer attitudes, and the stock market has rebounded."
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"If I were his aides, I’d be concerned, but I don’t think he’s in a death spiral yet," he warned after pointing out, "It’s such an own goal to win an election in which inflation is the single most important issue and then turn around and announce a 25 percent tariff on cars — maybe enough of an own goal that Trump seems to realize he messed up."
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