{"id":1052603,"date":"2025-04-25T19:12:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T23:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1052603"},"modified":"2025-04-25T19:12:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T23:12:43","slug":"new-polling-voters-sour-on-trumps-overreaching-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/new-polling-voters-sour-on-trumps-overreaching-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW POLLING: Voters Sour on Trump\u2019s \u201cOverreaching\u201d Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong> \u201cVoters believe President Trump is overreaching with his aggressive efforts to expand executive power \u2026 The turbulent early months of Mr. Trump\u2019s administration are seen as \u2018chaotic\u2019 and \u2018scary\u2019 by majorities of voters \u2026 Voters do not view him as understanding the problems in their daily lives and have soured on his leadership as he approaches his 100th day in office.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/25\/us\/politics\/trump-poll-approval.html\"><strong>New York Times<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Voters See Trump\u2019s Use of Power as Overreaching, Times\/Siena Poll Finds<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Shane Goldmacher, Ruth Igielnik, and Camille Baker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Voters believe President Trump is overreaching with his aggressive efforts to expand executive power<\/strong><strong>, and they have deep doubts about some of the signature pieces of his agenda, a New York Times\/Siena College poll found.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The turbulent early months of Mr. Trump\u2019s administration are seen as \u201cchaotic\u201d and \u201cscary\u201d by majorities of voters \u2026 Voters do not view him as understanding the problems in their daily lives and have soured on his leadership as he approaches his 100th day in office.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mr. Trump\u2019s approval rating sits at 42 percent. His standing is historically low for a president this early in a term\u2026\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Only 43 percent said they approved of how he has managed the economy this term, a serious erosion on an issue long seen as a strength.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The president\u2019s pursuit of widespread tariffs \u2014 which has caused stock-market drops and gyrations \u2014 was opposed by 55 percent of voters, including 63 percent of independents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Voters said he had \u201cgone too far\u201d on issue after issue \u2014 his tariffs, his immigration enforcement, his cuts to the federal work force. <\/strong>Broad numbers of independent voters sided with Democrats in believing that he had overreached.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Only 44 percent of voters \u2014 including a meager 31 percent of independents \u2014 said that he \u201cunderstands the problems facing people like you.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Voters are more than twice as likely to say his policies have hurt them as they are to say his policies have helped them.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cVoters believe President Trump is overreaching with his aggressive efforts to expand executive power \u2026 The turbulent early months of Mr. Trump\u2019s administration are seen as \u2018chaotic\u2019 and \u2018scary\u2019 by majorities of voters \u2026 Voters do not view him as understanding the problems in their daily lives and have soured on his leadership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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