Liz Peek: Ignore Biased Polls, Trump Voters Love His First 100 Days

Today, April 29, 2025, is President Donald Trump’s 100th day successful office. The wide media, which has underestimated and misrepresented this president for nan past decade, would person america judge that his 2nd word truthful acold has been a disaster. Many of america who voted for Trump disagree.        

Pollsters show america that Trump’s support ratings are successful free fall. Critics (and nan president) propose immoderate polls don’t walk nan smell test. GOP pollster John McLaughlin reports that successful nan caller NY Times/Siena poll, which showed Trump pinch a meager 42% approving of really nan president is handling his job, only 37% of nan study group voted for Trump successful 2024.  

The caller ABC/Washington Post canvass showed Trump astatine 39% support – "The Lowest successful 80 Years" blared a header – but included, according to McLaughlin, only 34% Trump voters. As McLaughlin asked pointedly connected Truth Social, "Didn’t we triumph celebrated ballot pinch 50%?" 

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A patient called Quantus Insights, that claims to person achieved amended accuracy than astir polling outfits successful 2024, shows successful a caller study that Trump still commands 91% backing from Republicans and that his wide support is still astir 48%, higher than astir different surveys.  

Coal miner Jeff Crowe winks astatine President Donald Trump aft he signed Crowe's reside during an arena connected power accumulation successful nan East Room of nan White House, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Still, Trump’s support has undeniably softened, and nary wonder. Economists show america that prices are group to soar, nan U.S. is apt to tumble into recession, a "supply daze is coming" and that the dollar is nether attack. 

Never mind that ostentation has eased complete nan past 2 months and really turned antagonistic successful March.  Never mind that nan jobs marketplace remains coagulated and that Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan precocious told Bret Baier connected Fox News that "consumers are still spending."  

The extremity is near, we are told, each because Trump is attempting thing that should person happened a decade aliases 2 ago: he is trying to make America competitory again. He is trying to undo nan harm done by allowing China to subordinate nan World Trade Organization, looking nan different measurement while China collapsed each rule meant to beforehand adjacent trade (Thank you Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama.) and by a bid of waste and acquisition agreements that allowed U.S. companies to vessel jobs overseas. 

The wide media’s return connected Trump’s tariff conflict is relentlessly and universally negative. Isn’t location anyone who worries that nan U.S. is limited connected Chinese manufacture and pharmaceuticals? Isn’t anyone irate that America’s EU friends put 10% tariffs connected U.S. autos while we enforce only a 2.5% tariff connected BMWs and Volvos? Does anyone spot immoderate upside astatine each to nan Trump waste and acquisition agenda? 

Why yes, it turns retired that perchance a awesome galore group work together pinch nan president’s actions. Pollster Frank Luntz convened a group of immoderate 15 Trump voters recently, taking their beat connected nan rocky past fewer weeks and expecting them to blast their elected leader, particularly connected tariffs and nan banal marketplace downturn. 

Luntz seemed amazed to find retired that nan Trump voters remained solidly successful nan president’s camp. On predicted tariff-generated value hikes, they said they were consenting to salary much for equipment made successful nan U.S. and supported trying to bring location production. On nan banal market, they observed that markets spell up and down, and that location had been corrections moreover nether President Joe Biden. 

Overall, nan group appeared consenting to springiness Trump clip to activity done his agenda, noting that it was only a fewer months into his term, and that he had 3 and a half years to go.   

That is surely not nan position of nan wide press, which has fought Trump each measurement of his governmental journey. Whether it was pushing our NATO friends to up their defense spending aliases calling retired China for breaking waste and acquisition rules and stealing our intelligence property, aliases advocating for a separator wall, nan constitution fought him until voters took his side.    

The extremity is near, we are told, each because Trump is attempting thing that should person happened a decade aliases 2 ago: he is trying to make America competitory again.

Trump does not person overmuch time. Since he tin service for only 4 years, and since he mightiness suffer nan GOP mostly successful Congress successful little than 2 years, he entered nan Oval Office moving astatine what is now called Trump Speed connected a big of initiatives. He is giving Democrats heartburn by tackling truthful galore ambitions astatine once.  

Of 31 main run promises, moreover The Washington Post has had to admit that he has made advancement connected each but eight, and that summary is dishonest. Of nan 8 described arsenic "Hasn’t Happened," nan committedness to "cut taxes" and "eliminate taxes connected tips and overtime" is intelligibly "underway" (another category) arsenic Congress useful toward a reconciliation bill.  

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The Post points retired that galore initiatives look "roadblocks," pinch judges stepping successful to contradict advancement connected ending birthright citizenship and cutting costs to sanctuary cities; immoderate of these proposals will succeed, others will not. Trump supporters will trim him immoderate slack for not being capable to flooded judicial interference. 

But they will besides applaud those promises that Trump is quickly moving to fulfill: expanding lipid and state production, rolling backmost destructive biology regulations, eliminating violative title and gender curriculms successful schools, preventing girls from having to compete successful sports pinch biologic males and drastically reducing nan travel of group entering our state illegally.  

These policies offend nan wide establishment, but that isn’t nan group that elected Trump. Working-class, common-sense Americans voted for Donald Trump and for nan astir portion I’m guessing that – for illustration nan Luntz sample -- they for illustration what he is doing.  

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For sure, because nan president has taken connected specified a boatload of initiatives, mistakes person been made. The roll-out of nan tariff program, successful particular, was choppy and has created uncertainty. But if nan White House tin ink deals pinch India, Japan and South Korea successful nan adjacent period aliases so, those wins will calm markets and cheer voters.   

Trump should proceed to present connected his run promises.  The polling will return attraction of itself … and go awesome again. 

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