A Moment Of Clarity: Trust Issues: How Epstein Affects Political Approval Ratings
The Michael Steele Podcast
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🗓️ 26 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | And now for a moment of clarity. |
| 0:05.0 | Themselves elevated and mainstream. |
| 0:08.0 | So when you combine that with the Democrats who've consistently been pushing this issue |
| 0:14.0 | and talking about other things related to people in positions of power |
| 0:18.0 | that are trying to lie to you and pull the well over your eyes. I think it's it's it's that consistent language. |
| 0:23.6 | That distrust. |
| 0:24.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:25.6 | Yeah, you know, I want to stick with you on that, Basil, for a moment, to pull on that threat. |
| 0:31.6 | Because I think one of the things that, in looking at numbers and, you know, it's what we do in politics a lot, is we kind of look at the snapshot in the moment of and, you know, it's what we do in politics a lot is we kind of look |
| 0:39.1 | at the snapshot in the moment of where our bases, where our opposition's bases. And then we look |
| 0:45.3 | more broadly at the American people because there are a lot of folks out there who don't belong |
| 0:49.2 | to either base, right? And so they're captured in the numbers that we just put on the screen and we can put them back up, |
| 0:56.6 | showing the overall approval of the handling of the Epstein case at 26% among all Americans, |
| 1:03.3 | disapproving 55%, no opinion, 19%. |
| 1:09.0 | And then you break it down among democrats uh three percent approving |
| 1:12.8 | 58 percent of republicans approving and that's the piece i want to ask you about um because i'd |
| 1:18.5 | love to get your insights here because my my interest in that number is where it is. |
| 1:28.6 | Given everything that we've seen when Donald Trump is out in his space doing this thing, |
| 1:33.0 | his numbers tend to be among Republicans very, very high. |
| 1:37.7 | You know, when you hit 70, this is a bad day. |
| 1:40.4 | He's at 58% approval here and that really dovetails onto what Brendan put on the table. |
| 1:47.6 | But I think the other piece here is what the Democrats have been effective at doing. |
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