These Trump Voters Are Turning on Him Over Iran and Gas Prices
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Sarah Longwell takes on growing backlash from Trump’s own voters as rising gas prices, grocery costs, and the fallout from the Iran war hammer household budgets. New focus groups reveal frustration, disappointment, and anger from people who believed Trump’s promises on the economy and “no more forever wars.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Sarah Longwell here, publisher of the bulwark. And today I want to give you some interesting |
| 0:04.6 | focus group stuff we've been hearing about Trump voters reacting to the economic fallout from the Iran |
| 0:11.9 | war over the last month or so. First, a quick update on where things stand with the war. This week, |
| 0:17.6 | Secretary of State and everything else, Marco Rubio announced that Operation Epic Fury |
| 0:23.5 | Trump's offensive war against Iran was over. Great news. War is over. At the same time, |
| 0:31.5 | we started a new operation to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz, Operation Freedom, |
| 0:40.5 | so a new operation, not the same one as Epic Fury, that one apparently is over. So Operation Freedom, that was started, but then Trump abandoned |
| 0:47.2 | it after only two days. So essentially, the straight is still closed, which means that gas prices |
| 0:53.4 | are going to remain high. And let me tell |
| 0:55.3 | you right now, voters, this is all I'm hearing about, especially and including Trump's own base. |
| 1:01.6 | They're feeling it in their wallets, whether they're swing voters or part of Trump's, you know, |
| 1:08.1 | core base. The thing we hear most often is about gas prices. |
| 1:12.2 | Like, that's just what people are upset about right now. |
| 1:14.2 | So let's take a listen. |
| 1:15.3 | I'm hating these gas prices. |
| 1:17.6 | The car I'm driving currently is a giant SUV. |
| 1:20.9 | So it's already terrible. |
| 1:22.2 | It's 15 MPG. |
| 1:24.4 | So, yeah, sucks right now. |
| 1:26.7 | Gas prices are up. |
| 1:28.9 | The prices are going up everywhere. |
| 1:31.0 | We threaten France and Germany and England and Italy that they had to come get the gas themselves. |
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