"If I had one piece of advice to my fellow fast-food lover, it would be, in the words of Michael Jordan, stop it. Stop going after the polls. You have a real problem, Enten said on Wednesday. Enten then pointed to aggregate polling that showed Trump was trusted to handle inflation more than former Vice President Kamala Harris by nine points in October 2024. His net approval rating now on inflation and the economy is negative 26 points."
"So it's not that the polls are fake. It's that the American people have turned against you, Mr. President. You've gone from leading by nine points in inflation to being 26 points underwater. You're doing something very wrong in the minds of the American public, Enten said."
"He added that even if polls are underestimating Trump like in 2024, he still has a Titanic-level issue. Enten said: Let's say the polls are off. Let's take up Donald Trump on his hypothetical. Oh, the polls always underestimate me. Well, here's Trump's net approval rating on inflation. Currently, he's 26 points below water. If the polls were off like they were in 2024, he still has got a Titanic-size problem. He's then 24 points underwater on inflation. So, yes, the poll's underestimated him, but just by about a point and a half in 2024, he would still have a massive, massive, massive problem on inflation, even if the polls were off like they"
Public confidence in the president's ability to manage inflation has shifted sharply negative. Aggregate polling showed a nine-point advantage in October 2024, but current net approval on inflation and the economy stands at negative 26 points. The president has characterized affordability concerns as a political con, and a Treasury official echoed the con claim while acknowledging an affordability crisis. Analysts warn that focusing on polls is misplaced because the public sees a substantive problem. Even assuming polls underestimate support as in 2024, the president would still face a very large deficit in inflation approval.
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