A new CBS News/YouGov poll showed that Americans are increasingly critical of Trump’s handling of the economy, and that more people are blaming him than a month earlier. It surveyed 2,410 U.S. adults from April 8 to 11.

When asked whose policies are more responsible for the state of the economy, 54% said they believe Trump’s policies are more to blame. Only 21% said they believe Biden’s policies are to blame. 20% said both of their policies are equally to blame, while 5% said neither are to blame for the state of the economy.

This compares to a March CBS News poll, when 38% of respondents said they blamed Biden for inflation, while only 34% blamed Trump.

A poll from YouGov and The Economist also showed that more Americans are blaming Trump for the economy.

  • psycho_driver@lemmy.world
    452·
    1 day ago

    “Blame the economy on Biden”

    You mean the metrics showing that under Biden at the end we had one of our strongest economies in our nation’s history? Of course, all of the excess wealth was going to the 1%, so average dumb red hat wouldn’t have noticed.

    Polling is irrelevant now anyway. There won’t be another free election anytime soon.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
      263·
      1 day ago

      Of course, all of the excess wealth was going to the 1%, so average dumb red hat wouldn’t have noticed.

      Maybe most of it, but certainly not all. Real wages were consistently going up under Biden, especially for the bottom 10% of earners. This isn’t as apparent as it should be partially because he did fuck all to combat price gouging.

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
        82·
        1 day ago

        Real wages were consistently going up under Biden

        https://www.factcheck.org/2024/06/competing-narratives-on-real-wages-incomes-under-biden/

        Real wages were up since the beginning of the pandemic in 2019, but not up since Biden’s term began in 2021. If measuring specifically Biden’s term, wages did not keep up with inflation. This is complicated by the fact that job losses mostly clustered around lower income workers in the pandemic, so their re-entering the workforce dragged the dataset down.

        Basically, it’s complicated.

        A big problem Democrats had in the election was refusing to acknowledge real problems in the economy, though. They tried to paint a mixed situation as wholly good and told suffering people that they’re stupid for believing their lying eyes.