Carville: Trump polling ‘collapse is already underway’ by Ailia Zehra - 02/21/25 11:51 AM ET Democratic strategist James Carville said Thursday that President Trump’s poll numbers are declining, claiming “the collapse is already underway.” Speaking on Fox News’s “Hannity,” Carville said Democrats don’t need to be aggressive, because Trump’s policies are making him unpopular. “Let’s see when they put the Medicaid budget, when they put the tax — the $4.5 billion [or] trillion of tax cuts to wealthy people,” he said. “Just let the ball come to you. We don’t need to be aggressive now.” The longtime Democrat consultant went on to say Trump is the “lowest rated president at this point of any president in American history,” referring to a polling average from RealClearPolitics. Three national polls released Wednesday indicated that the president’s approval ratings have seen a minor decline since he assumed office a month ago. On Friday morning, Trump appeared to react to Carville’s remarks in a Truth Social Truth Social post, saying he has “the best polling numbers I’ve ever had.” “The Democrats, run by broken down losers like James Carville, whose weak of mind and body, are going crazy, and just don’t know what to do,” he added. Carville further claimed during his Thursday remarks that Democrats are likely to win the race to become governor of Virginia, where Republican Glenn Youngkin is term-limited, and that they will take back the House majority next year. “The Democrats are almost certain to win the Virginia governor’s race, I mean, by — no, not almost. They are certain to win it,” he said, adding, “And they’re certain to win the House of Representatives back.” Carville accused Republicans of overlooking the issue of unemployment. “The key issue is, in this century, under Democratic presidents, 50 million jobs have been created, and 1 million jobs under Republicans,” he said.
'Never thought I'd see the day': CNN expert stunned as data show Trump approval plummet Travis Gettys February 20, 2025 11:02AM ET CNN's Harry Enten expressed shock at new polling that shows voters are losing trust in Donald Trump's handling of the economy. The senior analyst for the network examined the aggregate findings of numerous surveys taking the temperature of voters a month into the president's second term, and found him bleeding support — especially on the economy. "These four polls, all of them tell a consistent story, and that is Trump is on the negative side of the ledger," Enten said. "His net approval is negative. He is underwater like 'The Little Mermaid.' "We don't have a CNN poll to compare, but we do have the other three pollsters that we can look at. Trump's net approval rating, the change since January – look at this, Gallup down five points, Quinnipiac down seven points, Ipsos down 13 points. They polled right at the beginning of his presidency, so not a big surprise that that shows the worst, the worst change for Donald Trump. But the bottom line is this: Across the four new polls that we have, all of them have Trump in net negative approval rating, and the three in which we have a trend line, we see Donald Trump heading in the wrong direction, swimming upstream." The president should be especially concerned by the factor that's driving those losses, Enten said, because the same thing ended up dragging down Joe Biden's presidency. "One of Donald Trump's great strengths during his first term, one of Donald Trump's great strengths during the 2024 campaign, was the economy, the idea that Donald Trump could fix the economy," Enten said. "This was one of Donald Trump's great strengths, now it's one of his great weaknesses. What am I talking about? Trump's net approval rating. You go back to his first term, February 2017 – Ipsos, he was at plus-16 points on his net approval, Quinnipiac plus-six. Look at where he is now in Ipsos, he's eight points underwater on the economy. Quinnipiac four points under on the economy." "I honestly never thought I'd see the day in which Donald Trump would be polling so poor on the economy – but that day is here," Enten added. "As I said last week, inflation ate the Joe Biden presidency alive, and right now it is very much the case that Donald Trump is in danger of inflation eating his presidency alive, because his net approval ratings on the economy are underwater."
Trump may be a lame duck,but most Republicans in Congress are not.The lower his approval ratings,the harder it will be for him to get Republicans in Congress to keep supporting him.Same with 2028 GOP hopefuls who knows that if his approval ratings are in the toilet it will seriously hurt their chances in 2028.