Trump Rages at Pollsters as Latest GOP Losses Reveal Surprise Weakness

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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President Trump erupted Thursday in a wild rage on Truth Social in which he appeared to blame pollsters for failing to register his world-historical success. “When will Polls reflect the Greatness of America at this point in time?” he fumed. Notably, this comes just after Democrats scored big wins in the Miami mayoral race and elsewhere, which analysts see as a sign that the Latino vote is shifting hard away from Trump. Not coincidentally, a new poll has Trump’s approval on immigration plunging below 40 percent. We talked to William Saletan, staff writer at The Bulwark, about his great new piece on Trump’s open agenda of ethnic persecution. We discuss the relationship between Trump’s racism and his unpopularity, what the latest GOP losses show about the collapse of the MAGA coalition, what to make of the GOP’s open embrace of full-bore ethnonationalism, and why it’s (somewhat) heartening that the public is rejecting it so decisively. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:26.9	This week, Democrats notched more big wins that show President Trump is really killing his party.
1:34.2	A Democrat won the Miami Malti for the first time in decades, fueled by a big shift in Hispanic
1:39.9	votes away from the GOP. Dems also flipped a Georgia state legislative seat in a district that
1:46.3	Trump won by double digits, among other victories. It's now clear that Trump's immigration
1:51.9	agenda is a big part of this story. A new poll has his approval on the issue in the toilet,
1:58.2	and Christy Noem got badly humiliated at a hearing under tough questioning
2:02.2	from Democrats. And in broader terms, Trump knows he's in political trouble. He unleashed a bizarre
2:08.3	self-pitying tirade in which he all but admitted that his polling is bad, which may be a first.
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