With gas prices continuing to surge, more than 8 in 10 Americans said pain at the pump is putting a strain on their household budgets — and a strong majority blames Trump, according to the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.
The poll also found that Trump is more unpopular than he ever has been, and he faces major declines with key groups since being sworn in for a second term. Most Americans said the economy isn’t working for them, and the war in Iran — which has directly led to those higher gas prices — continues to grow more unpopular.
Those challenges have given Democrats a distinct advantage in the midterm elections. Six months from when votes will be counted this November, Democrats lead by 10 points on the congressional ballot test. The ballot test asks which party’s candidate they would vote for if congressional elections took place today.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Indiana had their republican primaries yesterday, and Trump-backed candidates cleaned house. He’s still the king in the eyes of the GOP.
Sure, maybe there’s some “undecided” or “swing” voters out there, but frankly, I wouldn’t trust them even a little bit. Anybody “undecided” in the current political climate simply isn’t paying attention and can’t be relied on to vote based on actual issues. There’s more than enough time to manipulate them into supporting Trump and the GOP.
GOP primaries are useless that’s the 25% of lunatics that are unreachable.
It’s the remaining 75% we need to get
I say this in every one of these posts about gas prices.
Americans are in a bad way when they can’t absorb, even temporarily, the increase in gas prices.
And this is exactly where politicians want us. They can use this to manipulate us one way or the other.
But they’ll never fix the actual issues at play.
Gotta love how it takes this long, and only when people are individually and materially affected do they finally start go recognize all the failings we’ve been calling out since before the first term.
It really irks me how, like in MTG’s recent speech at the republican think tank about how she is breaking with MAGA, she names other “brave” folks who spoke out…like Carl Tucker and Candace Owens.
What about the entire left wing? The people that are, consistently, “correct too soon?”
I can’t believe that the man is a convicted rapist, but it’s gas prices rising that causes him to lose support.
after 2024 I finally accepted that the majority of voters around me will accept
almostanything as long as their “comfy” little suburban lives are maintained for them by their overlords.depressing as fuck.
Totally agree 100%.
Most of my countrymen are motivated by discomfort. The problem doesn’t exist until it visits them at their doorstep. Until that very moment, they’re happy being armchair experts on the world at large despite never having left home, let alone talking with people that are different from them.
Also, it took me a while to grieve the fact that most Americans don’t read past the headline and deeply desire simple solutions to complex problems.
Very rarely do I blame presidents for gas prices because most of the time the president cannot do much about it without going after corporations. However, this time, starting a war with Iran, is directly The Epstein class’s fault, and Trump is part of that
I find it very easy to blame presidents for high gas prices due to their reluctance to go after corporations.
Huh, look at that, 4 out of 10 Americans are braindead, as that’s the only way you wouldn’t realize the gas prices are Trumps fault. Well, Trump and I guess Israel, but Trump could have tried not being a sock puppet to somebody for a change.
The US is done for, as nearly 50% of the population is apparently living in an entirely different reality from the rest of the world or else so literally out of touch with current events they don’t even understand a single thing that’s happening at a national level.
This is your brain on Fox and Newsmax.
Yep. Their view of the world is even worse than if they didn’t pay attention to any news source whatsoever. Before they could be brought back to reality, they would first have to through a stage of deprogramming and unlearning all the bullshit they have accepted as reality.
4 out of 10 Americans are braindead
I bet this same set were howling about how “Biden did that” when it came to inflation and gas prices in 2022, though.
In my admittedly limited anecdotal experience on this, not one of them could explain how Biden “did that”, though. Not one.
But this same set of idiots play dumb when any child can draw a straight line from the “fuck around” stage of PEDOnald’s war on Iran to the “find out” stage of the price at the gas pump and the effect on the economy.
LOL, duh!
Who else to blame?
Anyone stupid enough to have been giggling about “I did that!” for Biden at the gas pump (how did he do that, exactly?) and now being willfully obtuse about this, when you can draw a straight line from dumbdumb donnie’s actions to the price at the pump, is both an idiot and an asshole.
The rise of gas prices back then was partially Biden’s fault, but let me explain. If he hadn’t gotten shit done to get COVID numbers down, we wouldn’t have been able to go to work and school and bars and theme parks and sports events and whatever else people wanted to take their cars to. Demand was low during COVID, so supply was lowered to keep in line. Then suddenly demand was higher before supply could ramp back up to meet it.
It was Biden’s fault, because of he quickly solved a bigger problem, unlike this dipshit failing to understand basic shit like the direct, predictable consequences of bombing Iran.
It costs me $0.04 a mile to drive me EV. ($0.17kw/hr) And my car lost (msrp 36k - rebates - resell)/4 yrs ownership = $125 a month depreciation. I’ve done zero maintenance and chatted out the wiper blades once.
My total cost is ownership per month is $220 bucks, including insurance, power, maintenance, depreciation.
I have no idea how y’all afford gas cars at this point . I don’t make that kind of money
Man, what a frustrating comment to read. I was so on board until the snootiness of the last two sentences. You don’t make that kind of money? You obviously do if you’re dropping 30k+ on a vehicle.
For comparison’s sake, the 2014 Altima I got 9 years ago gets 30 mpg. At the rate of $4.10/gallon I paid last week that’s $0.14 a mile, which is a hefty 3x your number. But then consider that I rent a couple rooms in a house, so I’m not installing a fast charging station at home to fully take advantage of the cheap $0.17kw/hr you are, and at the apartment I lived in previously level 1 charging wouldn’t be available at all. That leaves commercial charging stations which around me are closer to $0.30kw/hr. That would still make your EV (whatever model it is) about half the cost per mile, which is great, although not as great as my first impression felt when I saw your $0.04 number.
But why would you assume that everyone can drop tens of thousands of dollars upfront to switch to an EV? I want to think you’re just joking, but that didn’t come through from text alone, and your other comment that it is a choice to use an ICE vehicle tells me you’re probably not. That level of smarminess is just obnoxious.
*cries sitting in my 15 year-old car
My ev is only 4 yrs old, and costs less to operate than a 15 yr gas car.
Clearly, but the upfront cost of an EV is out of the question for me atm.
What car do you have? I’ve been shopping for a while for when my wife’s Prius dies. I’m not looking to judge if it’s a Tesla but would appreciate if you would share your experience.
What a strange thing to say “I have no idea how y’all afford cars” most people in the US have figured it out. I mean, my shitty govt health insurance costs more per month than your car, life is expensive bro.
You choose that. I’ll stick with my EV that is affordable.
Oh man, it’s “democrats are going to win by a landslide so big you don’t even need to bother to vote” season already? How time flies.
meh, dems have already said they have no plans to impeach trump, Im betting they are too scared to investigate any of his crimes either… we gave dems the power in 2020, they did Nothing
Hey now, they told us Hillary Clinton had 99.9% chance to win, and sure enough she totally won. Right guys?
Right?
This is so NPR.
Factual? What’s the criteria?
It’s a very subtle but definite and continuous phrasing that supports republicans and fails to support progressives.
