Donald Trump is paying a "very steep price" after "completely misreading" voters on a key issue, according to a GOP strategist.Mike Madrid, who served as the Golden State's GOP political director before co-founding the group of current and former anti-Trump Republicans known as the Lincoln Project, ...
    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
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      19 hours ago

      That’s not what the poll asked. Wording matters a lot in polls. The question was worded as approval of deporting undocumented people in general - not necessarily of how Trump is conducting it. Quite a number of people have bought into the false the right wing narratives that most undocumented people are [insert negative thing here]. Then when they see brutal operations that don’t reflect that narrative they start to oppose the operations - but not always realize the premise was false. When you poll on how Trump is conducting things, the approval falls a lot more

      EDIT: which also isn’t to say that those myths can’t be busted, just that such a thing takes longer. Acknowledgement that the current operations are horrifying is the first step towards that