Jessica Tarlov

Within the administration, right, like take your pick and you can find something that a particular cabinet member or people with big influence in the administration are doing that hurts everyday Americans.

And part of it, not that I think that, you know, messaging is the be all and end all, but Trump also just completely refuses to talk about what's going on like a normal human being.

Like he says instead, you know, you don't need that many dolls.

You should only have two pencils.

You know, in China, they have 37 pencils, but you only need two pencils.

And it's really frustrating to people that he can't even do I feel your pain on the campaign trail.

He could talk about things like that.

And it wooed people in thinking like this guy actually gives a fuck about me.

But the reality is he only cares about himself and the people within close proximity.

So in agreement about what's going on with the economy, for sure, I get it on the AI front about without it, the economy falters because the stock market falters.

plunges.

But he continues to obviously have this enormous impact, but he's also becoming to some degree like white noise in people's lives.

And I think that that's important.

So support from people who strongly approve of Trump of 2024 voters is down 16 percentage points since March, which is a pretty big dive.

And that's not to say that the 25 percent, you know, the MAGA base isn't still rock solid.

But the folks who were, you know, interested in giving him a chance again, you know, 2016 voters back in 2024 or especially younger voters, Latino voters, his numbers have plummeted.

catastrophic levels.

And, you know, if Democrats fumble the bag in the midterms, that'll be on us, essentially, because this is ripe for the picking, not just, you know, I don't want to root against the economy, but if you look at where it is and the fact that essentials, like you were saying, the day-to-day items, like you go to the grocery store and your bill is enormous, school supplies, you know, things like that are affecting people

at this level, you know, you should be able to land that plane.

And it'll be interesting to see where the health care situation goes.