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The public's starting to notice, wouldn't you know it? They're not super happy about it. We had a bunch of new polls in over the weekend that have Trump's approval rating hovering right around 40%, which is as low as it's been so far in this term, flirting with where he's been at relatively disastrous points in his first term. Here to talk about it. Sarah Longwell, Lauren Egan. Hey, guys. How you doing? Hey, Andrew. Hey, Andrew. Way to go on morning shots. Sarah, let's start with you here. Where are we at? I mean, like, we've been clanging the alarm bells on all this stuff for a long time. Obviously, polling is a partial indicator. It's a snapshot in time. It's a lagging indicator. But it really does seem as though these things are starting to add up to a pretty frosty picture for the president just about 100 days in.

Yeah, so a few things. Number one, when I was on with your buddy, Bill Crystal, a few

weeks back, we were talking about, like, what does Trump need to get to in order to have Republicans

start to be like, ugh, we cannot give this guy everything that he wants. And I'll tell you,

Donald Trump's strength, like, I think one of the reasons you didn't see as much pushback in

early days is because he won the popular vote. Like that sense of a popular mandate, now they way

overstate their mandate. But even that sense of a popular mandate, it had Democrats way

on their heels doing a lot of soul searching, right? It gave Trump, like, nobody balked. I mean,

they balked maybe a little bit but like he got all of

his insane picks for the cabinet like cash pettel because people were like well i don't know they

voted for this guy they voted for he was doing and then he started fast and furious hammering away at

things and nobody stopped him because they were like i don't know i guess people like it they

seem to have wanted it. They voted for him.

So the meaning of the dive in the polls is that Americans are not happy with the direction that Donald Trump is taking us.

All of his move fast, break things stuff, whether it is doge, whether it's his immigration policies with the exception of securing the border broadly.

But like all the rest of it, the deportations, people still,

they care about the economy. This is where with JBL not on, I would like to give you a Sarah's always right pitch, which is he was like, but the economy's great and everybody's fine. I was like,

no, there were a lot of people, super price sensitive, cared about their grocery bill, thought it was too high. Inflation was still wrecking them. People at the lower income levels, many of the people who like Donald Trump culturally. And so they voted for him thinking he was a businessman. This is the central conceit of Donald Trump. He's going to lower prices for me when they see prices not coming down and him not seeming to be paying a lot of attention

to getting prices down like people like wait what's happening i hear this in the focus groups all

the time people who say things are just getting worse with the economy and they were already bad for

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