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McDonald's Advertiser
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Sarah Matthews
talking decks via the text now App requires wi fi or data connection data plan sold separately 5G where available. Hey guys, it's Sarah Matthews and welcome back to Bulwark Takes over. The last few days, several polls have come out and all three show just how unpopular President Trump is right now. Trump's approval is stuck at anywhere between 32 to 34% right now, depending on which poll you're looking at. And I would say there's two big reasons for that. You have the Iran war, his war of choice that he launched, which the American people really don't understand, why we're fighting them and why we attacked them in the first place. And it seems like Trump has no way to resolve this conflict. And then you have the economy, something that Trump said that he was going to fix on day one and bring down prices. And all we've seen is the cost of everything from groceries to gas skyrocket under his watch. So when you look at these three polls, first off, you have the CNN poll which has him at 34% approval rating. Now, to put this into perspective, this ties Trump's post January six low. So that's how bad things are for the American people right now, that they think that it's on par with what he did after January six. Then you look at this AP poll, 33% approval on par with where he stood in his first term and similar to Biden's approval when inflation peaked. And then you have the Quinnipack poll, which has him at 32% approval, which is an all time low for him in that poll specifically. And when you dive deeper into the numbers, particularly on the Iran war, you can see nearly six months in just how unhappy the American people are with him going back on his campaign promise. Keep in mind that Trump was the guy who said he was going to be the peace president, that there would be no new wars, that he wouldn't get us into some endless Middle east conflict.
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Donald Trump
We had no wars I could stop wars with a telephone call. I could stop wars with just a telephone call.
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Sarah Matthews
And obviously that has been the opposite of what has transpired during his second term. And the American people aren't happy about it. You look at this Quinnipac poll, 60% opposed the Iran military action with only 34% supporting. That's the lowest support slash highest opposition since Quinnipac started tracking in March. And in that same poll, 74% opposed sending ground troops. Only 19% support and 66% say that this wasn't worth starting this conflict, while 31% say it was worth it. Now when you look at the AP poll, 2/3 say the war which started on February 28th has not been worth fighting. And in The CNN poll, 67% say the Iran war is hurting the U.S.
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Sarah Matthews
when you look at how long it took the Obama administration to negotiate the jcpoa, you know that deal that Trump tore up during his first term? It took them nearly two years to negotiate that deal and so I have a really hard time believing that Trump is going to be able to negotiate a better deal than the JCPOA in a shorter time frame than that, especially with an Iran that feels emboldened right now. They see that they're able to control the strait of hormones news and inflict pain on the US and the world economy as a result. And so it's almost more powerful to them to know that they can do that than them even having a nuclear weapon. And it seems like the American people also believe that this is going to drag on. According to polling in the Quinnipack poll, 55% now say that they think it will last a year or longer, up from just 32% in April, which is a 20% spike in pessimism. And the CNN poll, 37% say months, 21% say years, and only 9% say days slash weeks, while 33% aren't sure. So it's not just me who's being a pessimist. It seems like Americans across the board think that this conflict is just going to drag on. It's also the Republicans, they are upset as well. When you break down the polling, in the AP poll, even 37% of Republicans say that the war hasn't been worthwhile. And in that same poll, Republican approval of Trump's handling dropped from 71% to 61% as it relates to the war. And in the Quinnipack poll, Republican job approval of Trump fell from 85% in June to 76% in July. It's no surprise that Republicans are upset with this, because the MAGA coalition was sold on no new wars. And looking at the numbers, We've now spent 37.5 billion on a war that no one wanted, and there's seemingly no end in sight. And I don't think that the Trump administration has done a good job of messaging this war to the American people. They don't understand why we're attacking them, why we're spending billions and billions of dollars. And again, I have a really hard time believing that Trump is going to be able to get us to a better place after this conflict is resolved than we were at before. And it's not just Iran. The economy is dragging Trump down, too. When you look at the polling in the Quinnipack poll, 71% rate the economy not so good or poor. In the CNN poll, 65% say Trump's policies have hurt the economy. Something I've been talking about, and we've been talking about here at the Bulwark. You look at everything from the Iran war, spiking gas prices, or his disastrous tariffs that have caused the cost of everything to go up. And, you know, you would think with people being so upset about the economy right now and being able to afford to be able to buy a home or put food on the table for their families or fill up their gas tank. That Trump would be a little bit more empathetic about this. But no. What's his response to all of this? To say that affordability is a hoax.
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Donald Trump
You know, we inherited it. And then I had my first news conference the day after I took office, and they said, affordability. Affordability. They go, that's a fake word that they use. They cause the affordability problem.
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Sarah Matthews
So while Trump is calling affordability a hoax, Americans are taking notice of just how little he seems to care about the priorities that they care about. In the CNN poll, a record 73% say Trump hasn't paid enough attention to the country's most important problems. Only 27% say he has. In that same poll, 75% say he's out of touch with problems ordinary Americans face daily. Okay, guys, no shit. The guy's a billionaire and probably hasn't stepped foot in a grocery store or filled up his own gas tank in decades. So needless to say, he's out of touch right now with the affordability crisis that's happening in this country. And also, he lacks empathy, too. So, you know, there's that. But in the Quinnipack poll, 68% say he's not focused enough on the problems ordinary Americans are facing. And we know what his priorities are, whether that be the ballroom, the arch, the reflecting pool, his renovations at the White House. He talks about these things in nearly every single appearance or Oval Office press conference that he gives. And this week, he has even more little pet projects that he's been focused on. He announced a renovation of Dulles Airport, an airport just outside Washington, D.C. i will be honest, as a D.C. resident myself, I have to admit that I'm kind of happy about the renovation of the Dulles Airport, but I can understand how this looks out of touch to the everyone else. Everyone else across the country who isn't maybe flying into D.C. or a D.C. resident. This is not something that Americans had at the top of their priority list. And he is particularly focused on this. And it's not just this renovation of the airport, and it's also gold statues. I know he's throwing even more gold across the city. Obviously, we've all seen the Oval Office and how he's turned it into Temu Versailles with the gold throw up everywhere. But you have these statues that are on a bridge in Washington, D.C. that, according to notice reporting, we spent as taxpayers, $5 million to cover in gold leaf. I guess these statues were back decades and decades ago. They were initially covered in gold and were bright gold. But I don't think that this was again, anyone's top concern was trying to make these statues bright gold again. It's just shows how out of touch he is. And no wonder voters think that. And that's reflected in this recent polling. And we're less than 100 days until the midterm elections and the state of play is not good for Republicans right now. In the CNN generic ballot, Democrats led by 8 points over Republicans. And today Sabato's crystal ball changed their ratings for 13 House seats toward Democrats. And in the Senate, a Fox News poll found Democrats up across the board. John ossoff up by 13 in Georgia, Roy Cooper up by nine in North Carolina, Sherrod Brown up by eight in Ohio and Josh Turek up by four in Iowa. Republicans don't just have a messaging problem, they have a math problem. Their voters are staying home while it seems like everyone else is fired up now. If you like takes like this one, make sure to like this video and subscribe to the Bulwark Channel.
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McDonald's Advertiser
All new drinks are now at McDonald's with refreshers like the Strawberry Watermelon Refresher and the Mango Pineapple Refresher with popping Boba to crafted sodas like the Sprite Berry Blast with berry flavors and cold foam. Who knew ice cold drinks could be so fire six? All new drinks are here now at McDonald's.
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Function Health Advertiser
Refreshers contain caffeine.