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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 2753 Where Did Trump's Poll Numbers Go?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

News, Government, Politics

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Rich Baris, who chairs the National Association of Independent Pollsters, gives us insight into what's happened to Trump and the GOP in 2026. 
 
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Book Discussed:
by Rich Baris and Joshua Lisec
 
Guest's Twitter: @Peoples_Pundit

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0:00.0

Get ready to take a flamethrower to the official narrative and learn what the elites don't want you to know.

0:08.9

You're listening to The Tom Woods Show.

0:18.4

Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. It's episode 2753 of the Tom Woods show with Rich Barris,

0:24.2

who is chair of the National Association of Independent Polsters and co-author of the forthcoming

0:29.3

book with the absolutely perfect title, Burn It Down, What the Pulse Say Young Americans Really

0:36.0

Want, absolutely perfect for this moment in our history.

0:39.7

So, Rich, welcome to the show. Glad to have you. Thanks for having me. It's great to be here. I'm looking

0:43.8

forward to it. All right. Well, look, let's talk about, first of all, good polls and bad polls,

0:49.7

because sometimes you see there's been a poll, and it's portrayed as that's the end of the discussion.

0:54.1

And I want to give you a specific example. I've just seen a poll that I didn't look into the

0:59.0

details about from CBS News telling me that there's a consensus among Americans that in general,

1:05.7

Americans support Donald Trump's aims in the current war. But yet at the same time, you well know that we also

1:13.1

see all these polls saying that among independence, this thing's a disaster. So how could we reconcile

1:18.7

this? And I thought to myself, well, they could be reconciled, but it could also be a misleading

1:24.3

poll where anybody who is at all concerned about Iran having a nuclear weapon

1:28.8

is generally in Trump's camp.

1:31.7

When, you know, John Kerry was concerned about Iran having nuclear weapon, I don't think he's in

1:36.4

Trump's camp.

1:37.4

Did you see that poll?

1:38.3

You know the one I'm talking about?

1:39.6

I did.

1:40.1

And one of the things I pointed out about it right away is that just last month, they had, I believe it was 98% MAGA support for the war in Iran. And that was one of the big talking points. Yet if you look at this one that they released over the just now, the headline is how Donald Trump has fallen so much with the white working class.

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