Numbers Don't Lie

The Lincoln Project

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Politics

4.7 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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This week's Elephant in the Room is all about the numbers. Rick explains how the one thing that Trump cannot fake could be the lynchpin to his unraveling and, ultimately, his downfall. ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ Follow Rick Wilson at @TheRickWilson on X and @therickwilson.bsky.social on Bluesky, and subscribe to his Substack at therickwilson.substack.com. Join the fight with the Lincoln Project at www.lincolnproject.us and follow LP on X at @ProjectLincoln. If you'd like to help us continue our critical work, visit https://action.lincolnproject.us/helplp to make a difference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.7	Hey everybody. This week's elephant in the room is that the numbers don't lie.
0:56.0	Today, folks, the elephant in the room, the big thing that's hovering out there now over this very consequential first 100 days of Trump, is that America is pissed.
1:07.0	They are really unhappy.
1:09.0	I'm going to go through some polling numbers with you today and talk a little bit about why this is such a big deal.
1:15.1	Look, Trump has always had a boundary that he could never go really far below. It was in the low 40s.
1:22.2	He would spring up, up into the high 40s, low 50s at top on his best days. And at the bottom end, it was about 40%.
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