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Nate Cohn

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735 total appearances

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The Daily
Trump 2.0: The President’s Affordability Problem

They disapprove of the big

The Daily
Trump 2.0: The President’s Affordability Problem

beautiful bill.

The Daily
Trump 2.0: The President’s Affordability Problem

They disapprove of his foreign policy on Israel and Ukraine and Venezuela.

The Daily
Trump 2.0: The President’s Affordability Problem

There's no shortage of explanations.

The Daily
Trump 2.0: The President’s Affordability Problem

There are only a very small number of bright spots for Trump in this poll.

The Daily
Trump 2.0: The President’s Affordability Problem

And I would say his handling of the border is really the only unequivocal strong point here.

The Daily
Trump 2.0: The President’s Affordability Problem

I do think that the poll suggests that of all of those things, that the economy is still the single most important reason why Donald Trump has lost ground.

The Daily
Trump 2.0: The President’s Affordability Problem

That's partly because he

The Daily
Trump 2.0: The President’s Affordability Problem

many of his worst numbers are on the economy.

The Daily
Trump 2.0: The President’s Affordability Problem

And it's partly because when you really dig into the attitudes of the individual voters who say that they no longer support him, those voters are really unusually likely to say that the economy and affordability is the biggest problem facing the country.

The Daily
Trump 2.0: The President’s Affordability Problem

I think that's right.

The Daily
Trump 2.0: The President’s Affordability Problem

Now, again, Donald Trump is unpopular on almost every issue we asked about.

The Daily
Trump 2.0: The President’s Affordability Problem

It's possible that if the economy was fine, they'd still be upset at him over his handling of ICE, for instance.

The Daily
Trump 2.0: The President’s Affordability Problem

What we know, though, is that these voters say that the economy is the biggest problem facing the country.

The Daily
Trump 2.0: The President’s Affordability Problem

44% of the Trump defectors cite economic issues compared with 24% of other voters.

The Daily
Trump 2.0: The President’s Affordability Problem

And we know that they give him really negative marks on his handling of the economy, even though that used to be one of his greatest strengths.

The Daily
Trump 2.0: The President’s Affordability Problem

So to me, the economy looks like the most straightforward, central explanation for why these voters swing back against Donald Trump in our poll, even though there are undoubtedly other factors as well.

The Daily
Trump 2.0: The President’s Affordability Problem

How far down the affordability rabbit hole do you want to go here, by the way?

The Daily
Trump 2.0: The President’s Affordability Problem

Well, standing on the outside of the hole for a second, I mean, I think that most people say that he just hasn't made the country more affordable.

The Daily
Trump 2.0: The President’s Affordability Problem

A majority say that...