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EarlG

(23,271 posts)
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 07:24 PM Jun 2025

New Trump Poll: Nobody Wants This!

Quinnipiac released a new poll today showing Trump under water on every single issue, and his approval rating has slipped into the danger zone of the 30s where presidents really start to lose power within their own party (because mathematically, the only way to get into the 30s in our two-party duopoly is to lose people within your own party). Trump’s job approval rating currently sits at just 38 percent. Immigration, the subject the braindead popularists in the Democratic Party think we should surrender to Trump, is a double-digit net disapproval issue for the president now, with just 43 percent approving versus 54 percent disapproving in this generic topline figure that Matt Yglesias seemed certain was immovable in a now-deleted tweet he’d love you to forget about.

Trump’s approval on trade is near-catastrophic, garnering just 38 percent support against 57 percent who disapprove just as its price hikes begin to take root in places like Walmart. And the big, beautiful bill whose mere passage through the House got America’s credit downgraded, is wildly unpopular with Independents, 57 percent of whom oppose it versus just 20 percent on board with taking healthcare away from people to partially pay for the wealthy’s tax cuts.

Nobody wants this!

Just 18 percent of Republicans endorse the signature aspect of this bill, decreasing funding for Medicaid. A majority (56 percent) think it should remain the same while more Republicans (21 percent) want to increase funding for Medicaid than to decrease it. No wonder Josh Hawley wet his pants over Medicaid cuts in that NYT op-ed. Nobody wants this!

https://www.splinter.com/new-trump-poll-nobody-wants-this


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New Trump Poll: Nobody Wants This! (Original Post) EarlG Jun 2025 OP
I am all in on celebrating this poll senseandsensibility Jun 2025 #1
The only thing DC pols worry about more than Trump's wrath newdeal2 Jun 2025 #2
Absolutely senseandsensibility Jun 2025 #4
Unless he can reassure them that its not an issue quakerboy Jun 2025 #21
Yeah, it will be interesting to see if Republican weasels try to distance themselves from him tulipsandroses Jun 2025 #3
Yeah, ICE is not going after dangerous criminals or gang members. love_katz Jun 2025 #19
Remember when they were railing about " catch & release "? tulipsandroses Jun 2025 #20
Worse they are releasing actual criminals IbogaProject Jun 2025 #34
Josh Hawley is no fool. speak easy Jun 2025 #5
He knows Rebl2 Jun 2025 #12
Doubt you would have first egged them on with a raised fist, though. GenThePerservering Jun 2025 #13
: you know it : speak easy Jun 2025 #14
Josh Hawley tonkatoy8888 Jun 2025 #30
I thought think you said he was stupid. speak easy Jun 2025 #33
Hey, EarlG, congratulations on 23,000 posts (and a bit more) usonian Jun 2025 #6
Not just "A bill." It's "a SPENDING bill." This is a "GOP SPENDING bill," written by the GOP without ffr Jun 2025 #7
I needed this news! ananda Jun 2025 #8
TY Kick for some Cha Jun 2025 #9
'Trump under water on every single issue, and his approval rating has slipped into the danger zone of the 30s where elleng Jun 2025 #10
NORMALLY they would start to lose power within their own party, but this is no "party" anymore--- Jack Valentino Jun 2025 #40
And the lunatics still are not stopped orangecrush Jun 2025 #11
It's WONDERFUL to see him losing support in the GOP! ShazzieB Jun 2025 #15
Great writing, thanks. Pinback Jun 2025 #16
He's running on momentum now. When the runs out, he's dead in the water. If he declares a national emergency or Martin68 Jun 2025 #17
He's an asshole who is also a lame duck mdbl Jun 2025 #18
He doesn't care because he figures B.See Jun 2025 #22
I agree, but his enablers DO have to be concerned about polls spooky3 Jun 2025 #29
The gqp is going to lose a wad of the big health industry donors. Clouds Passing Jun 2025 #23
This is all good & everything but William769 Jun 2025 #24
1) Murdoch propaganda; 2) MSM sanewashing; 3) a lot of our spooky3 Jun 2025 #27
Thanks William769 Jun 2025 #31
YW spooky3 Jun 2025 #38
You have made my day!!!! Peacetrain Jun 2025 #25
KNR - I'm looking forward to polls after this weekend's protests. Nt spooky3 Jun 2025 #26
What he's doing to my city is fucking criminal! Initech Jun 2025 #28
I have little doubt that these numbers are true and accurate, but, as always... BobTheSubgenius Jun 2025 #32
Our military will need to act - there is no other way TBF Jun 2025 #35
Except for the fact that unlike VonShitzInPantz's first term as POTUS, "our military" is now in the hands of hand-picked red dog 1 Jun 2025 #37
well hopefully I am wrong and WE the people will find a way - TBF Jun 2025 #39
K&R red dog 1 Jun 2025 #36
and im sure that nobody wants America's parks to be sold or America's science infrastructure shutdown Demovictory9 Jun 2025 #41

senseandsensibility

(24,205 posts)
1. I am all in on celebrating this poll
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 07:26 PM
Jun 2025

We'll never reach most maga FAUX watchers. But we're reaching almost everyone else.

newdeal2

(4,701 posts)
2. The only thing DC pols worry about more than Trump's wrath
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 07:34 PM
Jun 2025

Are polls. If they sense they’re in danger, it’s possible they will start reigning him in a bit.

senseandsensibility

(24,205 posts)
4. Absolutely
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 07:37 PM
Jun 2025

plus the average voter who doesn't follow politics much wants to be on the "winning" side.

quakerboy

(14,699 posts)
21. Unless he can reassure them that its not an issue
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 09:48 PM
Jun 2025

Either via control of future election results or just moving straight to the no more elections part of the republican plan

tulipsandroses

(8,116 posts)
3. Yeah, it will be interesting to see if Republican weasels try to distance themselves from him
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 07:35 PM
Jun 2025

I actually think the protests and trump over reaching is not going to work out in republican favor. Forget Newsmax and Faux news viewers.
Forget the people that held up mass deportations signs. For others, this is not a good look. Furthermore, as more stories are shared online, it exposes their lies about " dangerous criminals". Raiding workplaces, staking out schools, graduations, maternity wards - chasing someone in a field working on a farm?? Was he a danger to the vegetables and farm animals?
Maybe, I am being too optimistic, but perhaps their over reach will wake people up and push for real immigration reform. People here working, paying taxes, contributing to their communities belong here.

love_katz

(3,193 posts)
19. Yeah, ICE is not going after dangerous criminals or gang members.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 09:29 PM
Jun 2025

Over here, at DU, we have known all along that the chasing down immigrants is about rascism and xenophobia for his gullible base.
How do we know this? Gang members and violent criminals tend to have guns, which makes them harder to arrest, and criminals don't go to immigration hearings nor the check-in appointments that green card holders are expected to go to.
To anyone with a functioning brain, it's obvious what is really going on: spectacle for the rubes and haters who are his base. Little children, nursing mothers, waitresses and farm workers are not the dangerous gang members and criminals that Krasnov and company want to depict them as.

tulipsandroses

(8,116 posts)
20. Remember when they were railing about " catch & release "?
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 09:45 PM
Jun 2025

Saying how Obama and Biden would do catch & release and most of those people don’t show up for their hearings? Another lie.

IbogaProject

(5,565 posts)
34. Worse they are releasing actual criminals
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 12:46 PM
Jun 2025

They are really deporting regular migrants, labor organizers and some criminals who aren't associated with police informants. But they are also releasing actual criminals from what I've heard.

speak easy

(12,594 posts)
5. Josh Hawley is no fool.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 07:43 PM
Jun 2025

Malevolent? Yes. Stupid? No. His $15 minimum wage Bill shows he is already thinking beyond Krasnov. Disclaimer: I would have run away from a violent mob, too,

Rebl2

(17,335 posts)
12. He knows
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 08:23 PM
Jun 2025

it will go no where in congress, but he can say he tried. He’s one of my ahole senators.

GenThePerservering

(3,146 posts)
13. Doubt you would have first egged them on with a raised fist, though.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 08:40 PM
Jun 2025

That's what made his running away so funny.

tonkatoy8888

(169 posts)
30. Josh Hawley
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 11:23 AM
Jun 2025

is an absolute shit (he's my senator). Josh Hawley is just as big a fascist as everyone else in the GOP.

I would not walk across the street to piss on Josh Hawley if he were on fire.

Josh Hawley just wants to take a different route to destroying democracy in the US. He is following the Orban plan rather than the ham-handed Putin approach. Hawley's plan is to "give" people things in order to keep them onside and to reduce the chance that people will resist the tearing down of democratic norms, judicial independence, and legislative balances.

This is why he supports a higher minimum wage and Medicaid. He'd rather get busy destroying democracy without people rioting in the streets. This is why he yammers on about the GOP being the "party of working Americans."

Josh Hawley is an asshole, a fascist, or any other invective you'd like to hurl at him. He just isn't as stupid as Dear Leader and the gang of ignorant sycophants who surround him.

Josh is just looking for a more ordered, technocratic means of erasing democracy.

usonian

(23,304 posts)
6. Hey, EarlG, congratulations on 23,000 posts (and a bit more)
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 07:46 PM
Jun 2025

You bring up a great point.

Dump got a free ride from bankers and tech bro's, but the latter are bigly expressing regret
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220378706
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/topstories/musk-vs-trump-is-a-cautionary-tale-for-silicon-valley/ar-AA1GiZfR

One word of advice for those in Silicon Valley who followed Musk’s lead and sided with Trump. Leave. Don’t delude yourself that you are working to make crypto a part of global finance, minimising artificial intelligence regulation, helping start-up companies or protecting the interests of Silicon Valley. You have no sway. You are just cannon fodder.


Completely predictable. He rolled in the hay with the tech bros, got his hacked election, got his entree into the slimy world of crypto and "Thanks for the ride, my true love is the maga troglodytes. And money., money, money. I can do without you very well"

Bankers? Leonard Leo? People say that Gemini's and Leo's (using the term loosely) make wild passionate partners. Not much about the breakups.

ffr

(23,322 posts)
7. Not just "A bill." It's "a SPENDING bill." This is a "GOP SPENDING bill," written by the GOP without
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 07:49 PM
Jun 2025

consultation or input from democrats on projects that the GOP wants. The SPENDING bill as proposed, requires taxpayer dollars and an increase of our public debt in order to pay for everything the GOP wants to SPEND money on.

ananda

(34,308 posts)
8. I needed this news!
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 07:51 PM
Jun 2025

The troops and the violence and the mass
kidnapping of immigrants was REALLY
getting me down.

I'm still a bit down, but this helps.

Cha

(316,442 posts)
9. TY Kick for some
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 07:53 PM
Jun 2025

Reality showing Up in the polls.

Whether Traitor cares or not. Putin’s his boss Not the American people.

🕯️🕊️💙🌈🌊🇨🇦💛💙

elleng

(141,926 posts)
10. 'Trump under water on every single issue, and his approval rating has slipped into the danger zone of the 30s where
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 08:03 PM
Jun 2025

presidents really start to lose power within their own party!!!!

Jack Valentino

(4,251 posts)
40. NORMALLY they would start to lose power within their own party, but this is no "party" anymore---
Sat Jun 14, 2025, 09:46 PM
Jun 2025

its a combination CULT and CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION---
and they are still quite willing to drink every ounce of the Trump "Flavor Aid"


Yes, he may be losing some support among the GQP rank-and-file,
but Republican politicians have become very accustomed
to ignoring the opinions of 'the rabble'...



ShazzieB

(22,148 posts)
15. It's WONDERFUL to see him losing support in the GOP!
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 08:57 PM
Jun 2025

Surely some of the Republican pols are starting to see how this could affect their reelection chances. If anything can motivate them to stand up to him, surely it would be that. That gives me a little bit of hope!
💙 🐦 💙 🦋 💙 🐦 💙 🦋 💙 🐦 💙 🦋 💙 🐦 💙

Pinback

(13,485 posts)
16. Great writing, thanks.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 09:02 PM
Jun 2025

I’m following Jacob Weindling’s Substack now. Appreciate the introduction.

Martin68

(26,942 posts)
17. He's running on momentum now. When the runs out, he's dead in the water. If he declares a national emergency or
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 09:08 PM
Jun 2025

tries to impose martial law, that will make or break his thrust towards a dictatorship.

mdbl

(8,020 posts)
18. He's an asshole who is also a lame duck
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 09:09 PM
Jun 2025

I don't think he gives a crap about any poll - or American for that matter. He's going to destroy as much as he can on his revenge tour while enriching himself at the same time as much as he can. I wouldn't expect anything less of him.

B.See

(7,634 posts)
22. He doesn't care because he figures
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 10:02 PM
Jun 2025

he and his fascists and loyalists are in control now.

Government hobbled, sycophants in control of Congress, supreme court in complicity, figureheads and yesmen in military command, far-right extremists in law enforcement...

It's why he told his own voters they'd never have to vote again.

And IF there was another vote, I highly doubt they'd acknowledge it or leave peacefully.

spooky3

(38,223 posts)
29. I agree, but his enablers DO have to be concerned about polls
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 11:10 AM
Jun 2025

at some point. They face reelection challenges.

spooky3

(38,223 posts)
27. 1) Murdoch propaganda; 2) MSM sanewashing; 3) a lot of our
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 11:08 AM
Jun 2025

Fellow citizens pay no attention to the news; 4) a lot are hateful and ignorant and LIKE what they think is happening.

BobTheSubgenius

(12,168 posts)
32. I have little doubt that these numbers are true and accurate, but, as always...
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 11:41 AM
Jun 2025

....I'm left wondering how his numbers can possibly be this high.

TBF

(35,456 posts)
35. Our military will need to act - there is no other way
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 03:23 PM
Jun 2025

If they are not afraid to attack US Senators, they will not stop until they are stopped by the people who have the power to do it.

red dog 1

(32,346 posts)
37. Except for the fact that unlike VonShitzInPantz's first term as POTUS, "our military" is now in the hands of hand-picked
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 06:14 PM
Jun 2025

MAGA generals, admirals, and an alcoholic MAGA defense secretary.

There are no high-level military leaders left to "keep the bastard in check".

TBF

(35,456 posts)
39. well hopefully I am wrong and WE the people will find a way -
Sat Jun 14, 2025, 08:42 PM
Jun 2025

because I think you're right about that. that's probably one reason for all the layoffs - trying to clear out the entire gov't and replace positions with folks who support him.

red dog 1

(32,346 posts)
36. K&R
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 06:10 PM
Jun 2025

Speaking of Sen. Josh Hawley,
(From MSNBC)
"Suddenly, he sounds like a pro-union Democrat. Where was he during the years we fought to expand health care access for working families?
Where was his voice when we championed higher wages and economic dignity for the very people he now claims to defend?
Even more striking is the record he hopes we forget.
When that very senator was a state attorney general and a U.S. Senate candidate, he opposed a ballot initiative that would have gradually raised the state's minimum wage from $7.85 to $12 an hour."

Demovictory9

(37,113 posts)
41. and im sure that nobody wants America's parks to be sold or America's science infrastructure shutdown
Sat Jun 14, 2025, 09:50 PM
Jun 2025

but here we are

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