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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, 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, with what he did after January 6th. 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 prompt. 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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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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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. keep in mind that 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.