CNN rolled out a fresh poll Wednesday that slams President Donald Trump’s stewardship of the economy, insisting public backing has sunk to depths never seen before during his time in office.
Conducted by SSRS, the survey claims just 31 percent of Americans now give Trump the thumbs-up for how he is steering economic affairs.
Voters heading into the high-stakes 2026 midterms rank the economy as their top worry, and this numbers dump from CNN aims straight at that nerve.
Nearly two-thirds of the country now insists Trump’s decisions have left the economy in worse shape, a full ten-point climb in that grim view since January.
Backing for the president’s push to wrestle down inflation has cratered to only twenty-seven percent, a steep slide from the forty-four percent who backed those same efforts just one year ago.
The disappointment has even seeped into Republican ranks, where approval of Trump’s overall performance slid from fifty-two percent down to forty-two percent.
Sixty-five percent of those questioned now declare that Trump’s policies have damaged the economy, the highest share recorded at any point in his presidency and a harsher judgment than any leveled against Joe Biden across his entire White House run.
Sixty percent of respondents forecast that conditions will stay rotten a year from now, the most pessimistic outlook tracked so far in Trump’s presidency.
Plenty of folks in the poll admitted they are already scaling back their driving to cope with climbing gas prices that followed Trump’s decision to open hostilities against Iran.
One ordinary Republican voter put the daily grind into plain language when quizzed on the biggest problem staring down the country.
“Prices! Everything is so expensive. Makes it very difficult to do anything other than work and go home,” the said.
“Trips to the grocery store are ridiculous! Between gas and grocery prices, we are poor!”
That raw frustration captures what countless working families are living through right now as they stretch every paycheck thinner.
As the midterms draw closer, this poll should fire up every populist who wants leaders who listen to the kitchen-table struggles instead of chasing headlines from coastal newsrooms.
Stay tuned to the Silent Majority Report.
Let’s see, 178000 new jobs last month with wage growth of 3.5 percent. JUST A HORRIBLE ECONOMY RIGHT? WHAT WAS THE ECONOMY U DER DEMOCRATS A JOE BIDEN AGAIN?
I can remember having to cap off my gas tank every other day after work because the Middle East was jumping up gas prices and when the gas stations ran out of gas, they were closing and we were not in a war. It went on for months until the middle east backed off the higher costs a barrel. Now, when we have been in war, there were plenty of jobs for women when men were called up. War opened plants to make war products. Wages were good to get the necessary workers. We are in war right now and yet our economy is bad and people can’t find jobs and Trump is blamed for it all. My question, who are the counters, the people giving out the numbers and Trump’s good approval way down because that is not what war has done to the economy in past wars. Wars are boom economies and when finished the having to rebuild keeps the economy going. And minor wars in between help keep the economy at an even level of jobs and wages. We are still recovering from the democrat years economies so that can be added but that type of poor economy should be benefiting from the war.
I don’t believe a word the Commie News Network says, or those being polled. Democrats, and their propaganda arms lie through their teeth. They’ve all sold their souls to the devil.