NEW POLL: Trump Approval COLLAPSES to 33%
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The Bulwark
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🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
JVL and Sarah Longwell give their takes on the shocking new UMass poll showing Donald Trump at just 33% approval, only one point away from the “Bush line.” As the Iran war drags on, gas prices rise, and inflation worsens, they dig into what’s really driving Trump’s downfall and whether it signals real movement with voters. Plus, they react to Brendan Carr openly celebrating media firings as a political “win” for Trump and what it says about power, influence, and the future of the press.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. This is JVL here with my best friend, Sarah Longwell, publisher of the bulwark. |
| 0:06.1 | And Lordy, we got a poll, shock poll, as they say, from UMass. |
| 0:15.2 | Donald Trump approval rating, March 26, 33, approve, 62 disapprove, negative net, |
| 0:27.7 | carry the one, 29. |
| 0:31.8 | Holy shit. |
| 0:33.1 | Megan Kelly, five alarm fire, blah, blah. |
| 0:37.4 | Sarah, this is, I mean, I'll let you say the catchphrase. |
| 0:42.6 | We are one point away. One point away from the bushline. From what? From what? |
| 0:46.4 | From the bushline. It's coming. There it is. You know, I was on spring break last week when all of the polling came out. Okay. |
| 0:55.9 | Everybody had a poll last week. |
| 0:56.8 | CBS had a poll. |
| 0:58.3 | Like Fox News had a poll. |
| 1:00.6 | Trump tanking in all of them. |
| 1:04.9 | This is one of the most negative ones from UMass, Samhurst. |
| 1:08.7 | But I think also it's coming out just a little later than some of those other ones, right? So I do think we are going to see a tail as |
| 1:12.1 | Iran continues, as gas prices stay high, get higher. As inflation, we get like increasing |
| 1:19.9 | news about the economy, inflation, you know, like all of that stuff. I couldn't believe I |
| 1:26.5 | wasn't here last week to talk |
| 1:27.8 | about it. It made me so upset that I was missing it. But I was watching it saying, well, we're not at the bushline yet, so I don't have to be on the pods. But this new, this new poll, look, one poll is one poll. These are good pollsters, though. They, they are tracking against themselves. I think they were, A, was at 44% |
| 1:45.3 | do the numbers right in front of you |
| 1:46.4 | Yeah, I do. |
| 1:47.3 | So in April, |
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