“ But the marginal voter who made Donald Trump , that swing voter who made Donald Trump prexy , has now turned against Donald Trump , ” he said .
MSNBC’sLawrence O’Donnellsaid the latest poll numbers are terrible news for PresidentDonald Trumpas he struggles with core economic issues.
“He has failed every day on the economy, and he has surrounded himself with the most incompetent Cabinet…in history,” he said. “And the public, including Trump voters, have noticed and have turned on Donald Trump.”
O’Donnell said that , just as Nixon had partisan even after he resigned , Trump has a core that will not turn on him .
Multiple polls show Trump ’s overall approving military rank is dip , down 5 percentage point in just one monthin a unexampled Fox News poll , for example .
The poll numbers are even more dire on the economic system .
O’Donnell remark that was once the president ’s firm issue , but “ that ’s all over now ” after weeks of economic instability triggered by Trump ’s tariffs and trade wars .
That same Fox News poll finds that just 38 % approve of how he is handling the economy , while a newReuters / Ipsos pollfinds a 37 % approving on that same issue .
“ That number used to be often 20 points higher than that for Donald Trump , ” O’Donnell said .
He tell voters who liked Trump ’s military campaign hope to leaven tariffs “ have learn the hard path ” that they will at last pay for those tariffs .
“ And they do n’t like it , ” O’Donnell said . “ And so Donald Trump ’s business leader is slipping , and could slip away if the polling disaster Donald Trump is personally facing correctly now tonight spreads to Republicans in the Senate and the House face reelection next year . ”
He predicted that those GOP lawmakers would then “ abandon ” Trump as they face difficult reelection struggle . This article earlier appear onHuffPost .
