President Donald Trump's trade war is already impacting the American economy, and one Democratic strategist expects part of his 2024 coalition of voters to falter.
A Democratic and Republican strategist agreed on MSNBC that the Trump tariffs add costs to American livelihoods.
Speaking on Wednesday, host Ana Cabrera said that she remembered speaking with a lot of voters who were on the fence, but ultimately decided to vote for Trump over the economy.
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"Now we have a new Reuters poll showing 73% of Americans expect a price surge because of the tariffs, only 39% support them," Cabrera said. "Yes, Trump supporters say they're willing to give the president time, but I do wonder, you know, where is that threshold, where — what happens when Americans start personally feeling the pain in their pocketbook?"
Democratic analyst Tara Dowdell and Republican strategist Dusan Del Percio agreed that there are two types of voters. There are the MAGA loyalists, who treat Trump like a "televangelist." The others are those who supported Democrats like Barack Obama or Joe Biden in the past, but flipped because they bought into the GOP's economic message.
"That type of Trump voter, that threshold is not going to be a very big threshold. As soon as they feel the pain, I think you're going to see a response very quickly from those types of voters," Dowdell said of the soft 2024 Trump supporters.
Del Percio agreed, saying "it's the other Trump voter — the voter who said, maybe, you know, I can't vote for [Kamla] Harris or Trump's good on the economy. The 'excuse Trump voter,' if you will. So, now they said, okay, he's good for the economy, but not so much if we're looking at the stock market, and a sign of things to come. And that's the most important part. We haven't seen the prices go up just yet. We're a few days away in agricultural things, but perhaps maybe 2 or 3 weeks from big sticker shock."
Both agreed that while Trump is already seeing significant losses of support among key voting demographics, those numbers will get worse as the tariffs affect costs.
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