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Latest polling suggests Trump's political advantage on immigration is gone
The more Americans learn about the administration’s agenda on immigration policy, the less they like it. The political implications of this matter.
Latest polling suggests Trump’s political advantage on immigration is gone - MSNBC
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According to polling averages compiled by The New York Times, Donald Trump’s public support is now at its lowest point of the president’s second term. Making matters worse for the Republican incumbent, his standing on specific issues makes his political troubles appear worse......
Not anymore. What might’ve been a political winner for the White House months ago has become yet another political problem for the administration. From the latest Gallup report on its latest national poll:
What’s more, while Gallup found a year ago that a 55% majority of Americans supported less immigration to the United States, that number has dropped to just 30% now. What’s more, the same poll found 79% of U.S. adults say immigration is a good thing for the country — the highest support Gallup has ever found.....
The political implications of this are important in a variety of ways. Indeed, Trump and his team are poised to take their mass deportation agenda to new heights — or depths, depending on one’s perspective — with more raids, crackdowns, arrests, camps and legally dubious flights to third-party countries. This apparently isn’t what the American mainstream wants to see, which might lead some in the GOP at least to consider a less radical course.
But then there’s the other party: Democrats have spent much of the post-2024 election period expressing a degree of fear when it comes to immigration, perceiving it as one of Trump’s few political strengths. The latest data suggests those assumptions are due for a reassessment.
Not anymore. What might’ve been a political winner for the White House months ago has become yet another political problem for the administration. From the latest Gallup report on its latest national poll:
Perhaps because of Americans’ opposition to immigration policies that Trump has enacted to remove undocumented immigrants from the U.S., their evaluation of his work on immigration is mostly negative. Thirty-five percent approve of his handling of the issue, including 21% strongly approving, while 62% disapprove, including 45% strongly.
What’s more, while Gallup found a year ago that a 55% majority of Americans supported less immigration to the United States, that number has dropped to just 30% now. What’s more, the same poll found 79% of U.S. adults say immigration is a good thing for the country — the highest support Gallup has ever found.....
The political implications of this are important in a variety of ways. Indeed, Trump and his team are poised to take their mass deportation agenda to new heights — or depths, depending on one’s perspective — with more raids, crackdowns, arrests, camps and legally dubious flights to third-party countries. This apparently isn’t what the American mainstream wants to see, which might lead some in the GOP at least to consider a less radical course.
But then there’s the other party: Democrats have spent much of the post-2024 election period expressing a degree of fear when it comes to immigration, perceiving it as one of Trump’s few political strengths. The latest data suggests those assumptions are due for a reassessment.
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