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The Don Lemon Show

The Economy, the Polls & Voting Rights Fallout!

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

News, Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Another chaotic week is in the books, and the stakes just keep getting higher. From growing economic anxiety and rising costs to new polling showing increasing concerns about Donald Trump’s mental fitness for the presidency, Americans are asking serious questions about where the country is headed. Meanwhile, the fallout from the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act is already playing out in Tennessee, where Republicans pushed forward a redistricting plan to dismantle the state’s only majority-Black district. And Tennessee is just the beginning. Similar fights are emerging across the country, raising alarms about representation, voting rights, and what the midterms could look like moving forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This week hits close to home. New polling shows that most Americans have real doubts about Donald

0:04.6

Trump's mental fitness and where the economy is headed. Tennessee Republicans use the Supreme

0:08.9

Court's gutting of the Voting Rights Act to wipe out the state's only majority black congressional

0:13.9

district. The ink on that was barely dry. And others are following in their footsteps rapidly.

0:22.3

Republicans taking advantage of the Supreme Court's decision. A Hantavaris outbreak linked to a cruise ship has now reached

0:28.1

five states and health experts are raising questions about whether America can respond properly

0:33.6

after leaving the WHO. This is what we're covering today.

0:38.3

Check it out.

0:40.3

Here's the report from ABC News on Donald Trump,

0:42.3

how he's killing the economy, his credibility,

0:45.3

your ability to believe in anything our government is dealing with,

0:49.3

et cetera. Roll it.

0:51.3

Tonight, as the war with Iran drives gas prices to a four-year high, new polling shows

0:56.4

two-thirds of Americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction. President Trump's

1:02.0

disapproval rating hitting a record 62 percent and the president underwater on every issue tested.

1:09.0

Cost of living, inflation, the war with Iran and the economy.

1:13.6

On the campaign trail, Trump had promised to lower the cost of living. We're going down

1:19.5

and getting gasoline below $2 a gallon, bring down the price of everything from electricity rates to

1:26.3

groceries, airfares and

1:28.0

housing costs but now gas prices surging to an average of four dollars and

1:33.2

43 cents a gallon nationwide Americans forced to make trade-offs 44% say

1:39.4

they've cut back on driving 42% say they've cut other household expenses.

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