LIZ PEEK: Ignore biased polls, Trump voters love his first 100 days

Today, April 29, 2025, is President Donald Trump’s 100th time successful office. The wide media, which has underestimated and misrepresented this president for the past decade, would person america judge that his 2nd word truthful acold has been a disaster. Many of america who voted for Trump disagree.        

Pollsters archer america that Trump’s support ratings are successful escaped fall. Critics (and the president) suggest immoderate polls don’t walk the odor test. GOP pollster John McLaughlin reports that successful the caller NY Times/Siena poll, which showed Trump with a meager 42% approving of however the president is handling his job, lone 37% of the survey radical voted for Trump successful 2024.  

The caller ABC/Washington Post canvass showed Trump astatine 39% support – "The Lowest successful 80 Years" blared a header – but included, according to McLaughlin, lone 34% Trump voters. As McLaughlin asked pointedly connected Truth Social, "Didn’t we triumph fashionable ballot with 50%?" 

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A steadfast called Quantus Insights, that claims to person achieved amended accuracy than astir polling outfits successful 2024, shows successful a caller survey that Trump inactive commands 91% backing from Republicans and that his wide support is inactive astir 48%, higher than astir different surveys.  

Coal miner Jeff Crowe winks astatine President Donald Trump aft helium signed Crowe's code during an lawsuit connected vigor accumulation successful the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Still, Trump’s enactment has undeniably softened, and nary wonder. Economists archer america that prices are acceptable to soar, the U.S. is apt to tumble into recession, a "supply daze is coming" and that the dollar is nether attack. 

Never caput that ostentation has eased implicit the past 2 months and really turned antagonistic successful March.  Never caput that the jobs marketplace remains coagulated and that Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan precocious told Bret Baier connected Fox News that "consumers are inactive spending."  

The extremity is near, we are told, each due to the fact that Trump is attempting thing that should person happened a decennary oregon 2 ago: helium is trying to marque America competitory again. He is trying to undo the harm done by allowing China to articulation the World Trade Organization, looking the different mode portion China broke each regularisation meant to beforehand just commercialized (Thank you Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama.) and by a bid of commercialized agreements that allowed U.S. companies to vessel jobs overseas. 

The wide media’s instrumentality connected Trump’s tariff conflict is relentlessly and universally negative. Isn’t determination anyone who worries that the U.S. is babelike connected Chinese manufacture and pharmaceuticals? Isn’t anyone irate that America’s EU allies enactment 10% tariffs connected U.S. autos portion we enforce lone a 2.5% tariff connected BMWs and Volvos? Does anyone spot immoderate upside astatine each to the Trump commercialized agenda? 

Why yes, it turns retired that perchance a large galore radical hold with the president’s actions. Pollster Frank Luntz convened a radical of immoderate 15 Trump voters recently, taking their pulse connected the rocky past fewer weeks and expecting them to blast their elected leader, particularly connected tariffs and the banal marketplace downturn. 

Luntz seemed amazed to find retired that the Trump voters remained solidly successful the president’s camp. On predicted tariff-generated terms hikes, they said they were consenting to wage much for goods made successful the U.S. and supported trying to bring location production. On the banal market, they observed that markets spell up and down, and that determination had been corrections adjacent nether President Joe Biden. 

Overall, the radical appeared consenting to springiness Trump clip to enactment done his agenda, noting that it was lone a fewer months into his term, and that helium had 3 and a fractional years to go.   

That is surely not the presumption of the wide press, which has fought Trump each measurement of his governmental journey. Whether it was pushing our NATO allies to up their defence spending oregon calling retired China for breaking commercialized rules and stealing our intelligence property, oregon advocating for a borderline wall, the constitution fought him until voters took his side.    

The extremity is near, we are told, each due to the fact that Trump is attempting thing that should person happened a decennary oregon 2 ago: helium is trying to marque America competitory again.

Trump does not person overmuch time. Since helium tin service for lone 4 years, and since helium mightiness suffer the GOP bulk successful Congress successful little than 2 years, helium entered the Oval Office moving astatine what is present called Trump Speed connected a big of initiatives. He is giving Democrats heartburn by tackling truthful galore ambitions astatine once.  

Of 31 main run promises, adjacent The Washington Post has had to admit that helium has made advancement connected each but eight, and that summary is dishonest. Of the 8 described arsenic "Hasn’t Happened," the committedness to "cut taxes" and "eliminate taxes connected tips and overtime" is intelligibly "underway" (another category) arsenic Congress works toward a reconciliation bill.  

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The Post points retired that galore initiatives look "roadblocks," with judges stepping successful to contradict advancement connected ending birthright citizenship and cutting funds to sanctuary cities; immoderate of these proposals volition succeed, others volition not. Trump supporters volition chopped him immoderate slack for not being capable to flooded judicial interference. 

But they volition besides applaud those promises that Trump is rapidly moving to fulfill: expanding lipid and state production, rolling backmost destructive biology regulations, eliminating violative contention and sex curriculms successful schools, preventing girls from having to vie successful sports with biologic males and drastically reducing the travel of radical entering our state illegally.  

These policies offend the wide establishment, but that isn’t the radical that elected Trump. Working-class, common-sense Americans voted for Donald Trump and for the astir portion I’m guessing that – similar the Luntz illustration -- they similar what helium is doing.  

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For sure, due to the fact that the president has taken connected specified a boatload of initiatives, mistakes person been made. The roll-out of the tariff program, successful particular, was choppy and has created uncertainty. But if the White House tin ink deals with India, Japan and South Korea successful the adjacent period oregon so, those wins volition calm markets and cheer voters.   

Trump should proceed to present connected his run promises.  The polling volition instrumentality attraction of itself … and go large again. 

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