Nate Cohn

And indeed, crime is the issue in the poll where he has his strongest overall approval rating.

Now, it's not a great approval rating, but it's better than everything else.

And I think that speaks to that even when the president is doing things that have the potential to alienate people, because he's at least pushing in the right direction, he does get some credit from voters.

Well, I think that you can not merely think that it's good that he's prioritizing the issue, but you can think it is good that the president has taken serious efforts to try and reduce crime.

This is what they would be saying themselves and give him credit for that.

I think that's right.

I think that most voters at this stage know where they stand on what this second Trump term looks like, which is being really aggressive about trying to fulfill the core promises of the America First agenda, whether it's on immigration and crime and so on.

And for a lot of the voters that put them over the top in the last election, this is too much.

And they decided that pretty quickly.

And for the voters that

weren't repelled by his conduct in the first few months, there's been nothing about what he's done since then that's changed their mind.

Even if he's gone too far, they still appreciate that he is trying to fulfill objectives that they care about.

Well, they don't think the economy is very good.

Only 26% of voters think the economy is good.

Voters are much likely to say that Trump has made the economy worse than say he has made it better.

The proportion who say he's making it worse is at 45%.

And his approval rating on the economy is pretty similar to his approval rating on everything else, which is to say that only 44% of people think he's doing a good job handling economic issues.

It's worth remembering that in his first term and also during his reelection campaign that the economy was a big strength.

And it's not a big strength for him right now.

Well, I think that the economy has not only been his strongest issue, but it's been really critical to winning over the voters who are on the margins of the Trump coalition.