Polls

Newsweek  -  It's tempting to see rage everywhere—from the Oval Office, to online communities, even to families divided over political beliefs. But anger isn’t actually how most Americans feel about politics. Exhaustion is. In a substantial Pew survey in 2023, 65 percent said they "always or often feel exhausted" when thinking about politics, compared with 55 percent who said "angry." In December 2024, an AP-NORC poll found nearly two-thirds have cut down on political and government news because of "information overload" and fatigue. And the research organization More in Common has described an "Exhausted Majority" comprising roughly two-thirds of the country, whom it described as "fed up with the polarization, often forgotten in public discourse, flexible in their views."

So this is more than about just Trump. The country is tired of being tired.

Politico - New polling shows many Americans have begun to blame President Donald Trump for the high costs they’re feeling across virtually every part of their lives — and it’s shifting politics.

Almost half — 46 percent — say the cost of living in the U.S. is the worst they can ever remember it being, a view held by 37 percent of 2024 Trump voters. Americans also say that the affordability crisis is Trump’s responsibility, with 46 percent saying it is his economy now and his administration is responsible for the costs they struggle with.

The Hill -  The Yahoo/YouGov poll found that 38 percent of Americans blame Trump for inflation, compared to 31 percent who blame Biden. 

A Fox News poll, also released last month, made for even grimmer reading for Trump. It found that voters say Trump is more responsible than Biden for the state of the economy by an almost 2-to-1 ratio, 62 percent to 32 percent.  

A separate question found that just 15 percent of voters believe they have been helped by Trump’s economic policies, while 46 percent say they have been hurt and 39 percent say those policies have made no difference.