Study released a day before State of the Union address shows president has lost support among Republicans

Most US adults think Donald Trump is moving the country in the wrong direction during his second presidency, according to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll released the day before his State of the Union speech.

Fifty-five percent of adults feel that Trump is changing the country for the worse, a 13-point increase from around the same time of his first presidency, the survey conducted from 27 to 30 January found.

The number of people who held that view also increased four points from April.

Unsurprisingly, support for the president splits down party lines.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Electing a felon rapist pedophile who spends every day trying to divide our nation was a bad idea?

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    7 hours ago

    And they’re voting Republican again anyway!

    Here in California, the top two candidates for governor going into the primary, are varying degrees of MAGA. Fucking insane.

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    9 hours ago

    What? Americans voted for him to move USA backwards, and he is moving USA backwards!
    They got what they asked for.

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    6 hours ago

    America is moving in a direction that will make them worse than nazi’s in WW2, and it seems a good portion of Americans are completely cool with that 😒

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    18 hours ago

    For the dumb dumbs that voted for him but now think he’s moving in the wrong direction, just what they fuck did they think he was going to do?

    He ran on carrying out vendettas against his personal enemies and doing incredibly stupid shit like culture wars, tariffs, and mass deportation.

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        6 hours ago

        I remember talking to a relative of mine (he’s a redcap) and we were talking about the economy a few months into 2025.

        He said something about how Pedonald was “fixing” the supposedly terrible Biden economy. I asked him what was so bad during the Biden economy…both he and I had steady jobs. He said something phrased in a kind of passive-aggressive way about how maybe the “wrong” people were doing well - implication being ME and other people present that were not redcaps were not doing poorly and that was a problem. I pointed out that I worked a steady job through his first term, too.

        And I could tell that reminding him of this annoyed him. I think he expressed some kind of wish that maybe this term Pedonald would do better at harming people like me, at least economically if not something more directly nefarious. We were interrupted by other people (lots of people at this gathering) before I could ask more questions.

        These people are truly warped. Sure, in my weaker moments, I express vitriol towards the redcaps and don’t always say the nicest things about them. But I really don’t want them and their spouses and their children to go without healthcare, shelter, food, a job with dignity, clean air and clean water, etc…I’ve seen lots of the redcaps really champion death and so on online, and definitely I’ve seen them talk about it abstractly IRL, too.

        But to have a relative stand there and tell you that they want harm done to you and your family is another matter altogether.

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      13 hours ago

      Yes, if only there was some way to have seen this coming!
      If the fat orange child rapist had 4 years of blatant corruption, easily prosecuted criminality, and glaring ineptitude just a few years prior then all this surely would never have happened…

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    15 hours ago

    The only thing that gives me hope we can at least semi fix the direction things are going is that at least for Hitler, most of the population fervently approved of Hitler.

    That’s not the case here.

    But that could just slow things down.

    All bets are off at this point.

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    13 hours ago

    I believe Trump is moving the US in the right direction, whereas a good president would be moving the US in the left direction

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    18 hours ago

    They’ll still vote for Republicans though, because it’s a part of their identity, and it’s in their nature to be hateful and ignorant