Natalie Kitroff

People obviously don't like that things that they have to buy on a daily basis are so expensive that they can buy less.

But the thing really on people's minds, it sounds like, especially middle class people's minds, are these long-term kind of life prospect level concerns.

Yeah.

It does strike me, though, Nate, that there was just no way that any president was going to solve those concerns in a single year, right?

What this tells us basically is that people don't see him making enough progress or trying hard enough to have made a difference for them, even in this short period of time.

When we come back, we'll hear from voters that our producers Olivia Nat and Stella Tan spoke to on the phone about the kind of lives they want to live and how far they are from achieving them.

We'll be right back.

So, Nate, what our producers heard when they called some of the voters that you polled was just how deep their fears and anxieties were about their economic future.

And I want to ask you, since you've spent all this time parsing these numbers, what struck you about this group of Americans that are so on edge right now?

Wow, that's a big difference.

You sort of said this, but what you're seeing is that people are having a really hard time feeling like they can't achieve what they expected they would be able to achieve.

And I guess what I'm wondering is, is that sense actually grounded in reality?

Because my understanding is that the overall economy is actually doing okay on the whole.

So help me understand that.

You're saying people aren't wrong when they look at their incomes and what they're able to afford in terms of these big purchases.

They notice a deficit there that's real and that is perhaps bigger than in past generations.

Nate, given how weighty all of this is sounding, I want to turn to what the political implications of it may be.

Does the reversal on Trump, for many people, as the best steward of the economy, especially among younger people, does that represent an opportunity for Democrats?

Is that a bright spot for them?

So just because voters are turning on Trump right now on the economy doesn't mean they're turning toward Democrats.