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Trump Drowning in the Polls As All Hell Breaks Loose, Expert on Voters Weighs In

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Jennifer Welch & Angie Sullivan

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4.84.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Author and scholar Jonathan Metzl joins us to explain why trump is losing popularity at record speed.


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All right, I think it's finally might be happening.

0:37.8

A poll is showing that Trump is underwater with white working class voters.

0:45.3

Pop this up.

0:46.3

Trump reaches negative net approval with working class white voters for the first time ever.

0:53.3

And when you dive into the poll, it says 66% of white

0:56.4

working class voters went for Trump over Harris in 2024 and now only 49% approved. That is a drop of

1:04.8

17% for one of Trump's core basis. And here to discuss this with me, why do working class voters vote for a man who services

1:15.5

exclusively millionaires and billionaires is Dr. Jonathan Metzell?

1:20.1

He is the director of the Department of Medicine, Health and Society and Professor of Sociology

1:26.1

and Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University, just an all-time

1:30.4

underachiever we have here, an author of seven books including the protest psychosis, dying of

1:36.8

whiteness, and most recently what we've become living and dying in a country of arms. Jonathan,

1:43.6

welcome. Thanks so much. It's great to be here.

1:46.7

I'm so happy to have you. So this whole phenomenon, like when I first started voting, the Democratic Party

1:52.9

was the party of working class. And in my time of voting, I'm 51 years old now, there has been a

1:59.0

really big shift. And now the working class

2:02.5

voters vote for the Republican Party. And exclusively for Donald Trump, I mean, he's like their

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