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From The New York Times, I'm Natalie Kitroff.

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Donald Trump was elected in 2024 on the promise that he would fix the economy, the number one issue for a broad coalition of voters.

Now, as the president goes out into the country to defend his economic agenda...

Today, in the second in a series of episodes evaluating the first year of Trump's presidency, my colleague Nate Cohn explains what the poll tells us about how skeptical voters are of Trump, his handling of the economy, and their own chances of living the lives they dreamed of.

It's Friday, January 30th.

Nate, we are coming to you because right now we're at this moment where we want to step back and try to evaluate how President Trump has fared on his signature issues about a year into his presidency.

And you, lucky for us, have just put out the latest results from this set of major polls that you're doing as our chief political analyst here at The Times.

And that poll, it really drills down on Trump's performance on the key issue of the last election, which was the economy.

But just to understand where Trump is at right now with voters, I want to ask you to remind us of where voters were in the run-up to the election and right after it as a way of understanding what people's hopes were for this year, you know, what they wanted.

Explain that to me.

Right.

And a lot of this talk of a vibe shift came down to who was in this broader coalition that you mentioned.

Younger voters, more non-white voters, somewhat disengaged, infrequent voters.

They all moved towards Trump.