He maybe doing what HE Wants…
But ?
He’s Losing support day by day….
It IS gonna cost ‘His’ Party dearly going forward…..
The word is Trump will go on the road to try and save his parties lim majority in the House and Senate…
That will could prove even MORE disaterous ….
The Enomony….
The ICE actions ….
The Chaos in the media….
His disregard for most Americans …
ALL have just turned more and MORE people OFF….
And Donald seems to contiune to keep driving MORE more people against him and his people….
When President Trump took office for his second term one year ago, he was — at least compared with his usual polling — relatively popular.
His approval rating was above 50 percent, and he had made enormous breakthroughs among groups that have traditionally voted Democratic, like young, nonwhite and lower-turnout voters. It had some of the markings of a potential political realignment. It even brought a much-noted vibe shift.
One year later, the vibe has shifted back. The results from today’s New York Times/Siena University poll would have looked fairly typical during his first term. Only 40 percent of registered voters say they approve of Mr. Trump’s performance, and the familiar patterns of American politics have returned. The second Trump coalition has unraveled.
The major demographic shifts of the last election have snapped back. In today’s poll, Mr. Trump’s approval rating by demographic group looks almost exactly as it did in Times/Siena polling in the run-up to his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. If anything, young and nonwhite voters are even likelier to disapprove of Mr. Trump than they were then, while he retains most of his support among older and white voters.
Similarly, Democrats have regained their usual advantage among young, nonwhite and low-turnout voters in the race for control of Congress. Overall, Democrats lead by five percentage points among registered voters nationwide — a tally that would easily be enough for the party to take back the House of Representatives. It’s the largest lead for the Democrats in a Times/Siena national poll since 2020, and it’s similar to Joe Biden’s eventual 4.5-point popular vote victory that year.
There is one exception to this reversion to the old first-term norm: party identification. Self-identified Democrats had outnumbered Republicans for decades before the G.O.P. edged ahead in 2024, and Republicans continue to lead by three points in today’s poll. It’s a lingering reminder that something like a political realignment — if still quite a bit less than that — really did happen during the Biden years. But already, Mr. Trump has squandered it….
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About half of today’s defectors from Mr. Trump cited something other than the economy as the most important problem facing the country. Many of those issues — democracy, polarization or even Mr. Trump himself — reflect deep concern about his actions among an electorally decisive sliver of voters who backed him in the last election.
But on balance, the poll suggests that Mr. Trump is held back as much or more by the usual laws of political gravity as by a backlash against his extraordinary conduct. This is not necessarily a huge surprise. He won the presidency despite facing criminal charges and a felony conviction, after all. But back in 2024, political gravity was dragging down the Democrats. Mr. Biden was an unpopular president, and voters were deeply dissatisfied with the state of the economy. This time, the same forces are dragging down Mr. Trump….
More from Nate Cohn @ NY Times….
image…USA Today
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