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THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

Trump Suddenly Slips in 3 Brutal New Polls—and Musk Looks Even Worse

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4800 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Three new national polls—from CNN, Gallup, and The Washington Post—show that President Donald Trump’s job approval is decidedly underwater. Importantly, the polls also show majorities rejecting Trump’s authoritarian governance. And Elon Musk, who’s carrying out Trump’s most autocratic designs, fares even worse. Are we finally seeing a real public backlash to Trump’s authoritarianism, the one that was supposed to materialize during the election, but didn’t? If so, what does that mean for how Democrats should proceed? We talked to political scientist Julia Azari, who writes on these matters for her “Good Politics, Bad Politics” Substack, about why Democrats have an opening to run harder against Trump-Musk autocratic overreach—and what that might look like.  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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0:46.7

Three days. Three new national polls show that President Donald Trump's job approval is decidedly underwater.

0:54.6

Even more tellingly, however, the new polls show that majorities are rejecting Trump's authoritarian governing tactics.

1:00.7

And on top of that, Elon Musk, who's been tapped to carry out some of Trump's most autocratic designs, fares even worse than Trump does in this polling.

1:05.4

Is it possible that we're finally seeing a real public backlash to Trump's authoritarianism,

1:10.3

the one that was

1:11.4

supposed to materialize during the campaign, but didn't? And if so, what does that mean for how

1:17.1

the Democratic opposition should proceed? We're talking about all this with one of our

1:21.5

favorite political scientists, Julia Azari, who has a good piece for her substack,

1:26.6

good politics, bad politics, about some of these

1:29.5

questions. Julia, thanks for coming on. Thank you so much for having me. So let's quickly go through

1:36.0

this polling. CNN finds that 47% of Americans approve of Trump's performance while 52% disapprove.

1:43.5

Gallup finds him at 45 to 51, and the Washington Post

1:47.9

finds that 43% support what Trump has done in his first month, while 48% oppose it.

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