Trump Hit by Brutal Poll on Economy as Panicked GOPers Nix Town Halls

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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🗓️ 28 February 2025

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President Trump looks increasingly vulnerable on the very thing that helped him win the election: Rising costs. On Thursday, Trump announced that his tariffs on Mexico and Canada will begin on March 4th. Yet only hours later, a new Bloomberg poll found that 59 percent expect the tariffs to drive up prices further. Only 31 percent say they’ll be good for the economy. Meanwhile, Republicans are starting to cancel their town halls, fearing voter blowback over Elon Musk’s rampage. We talked to Andrew Bates, a former White House communications adviser, who argues that the Trump-GOP political mess will only get worse once Republicans start cutting Medicaid—and says Democrats have a big opening to capitalize. Listen to this episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:54.0	President Donald Trump is looking increasingly vulnerable on the very thing that helped him win the election, rising costs.
2:01.4	On Thursday, Trump announced that his long-planned tariffs on Mexico and Canada will go forward on March 4th.
2:08.1	Yet just a few hours later, a new poll hit, finding that 59% of Americans expect Trump's tariffs will drive up prices further.
2:20.2	Only 31% say they'll be good for the economy. Meanwhile, on another front, Republicans are starting to cancel their town halls out of fear of voter
2:27.1	blowback over Elon Musk's rampage through the federal government. Andrew Bates, who was a senior
2:33.5	press secretary in President Biden's
2:35.6	White House, has been arguing relentlessly that Trump and Republicans are heading into extremely
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