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.

  • octopus_ink@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 day ago

    20% said both of their policies are equally to blame

    What the fuck is wrong with 20% of respondents? I can understand blaming it on Biden better than I can understand this response.

    • celeste@kbin.earth
      591·
      1 day ago

      They know it’s trump’s fault but they voted for him so they have to say biden was just as bad for the economy to justify their decision to themselves. That’s my theory.

      • Jaysyn@lemmy.world
        301·
        1 day ago

        Yep. Trump cultists absolutely can’t admit when they are objectively wrong, even as their small business crashes, their investments and retirement shrink or their spouse is deported.

        It is a serious personality flaw.

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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          12 hours ago

          always blame it on trans and wokeness as thier scapegoats. once follows Ytubers who did this, cant admit why thier decline of thier channel was their own doing, instead attacking fans and being mysogynistic towards thier former female employees. once they drank trumps Kool-aid they are basically trumpers now, i find it funny they are tyring to get into Right wing grifting with the incels, but they arnt very successful since they are also POC and asian.

    • Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee
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      1 day ago

      In any other presidential term, that can be a fair assessment only a few months in. The economy can be compared to a Panamax oil tanker - it moves with huge momentum and can’t be steered quickly.

      But this tariffs nonsense detonated a bomb below the waterline. You may not be able to steer the ship quickly, but deliberate sabotage can absolutely cripple it and spread damage everywhere. Quarterly 401(k) statements are being sent out, plus it’s tax season, so people are very in touch with how this is impacting them and their money

    • grue@lemmy.world
      201·
      1 day ago

      They’re absolutely checked out and ignorant. They have no idea what either’s policies actually were and they aren’t even paying enough attention to get brainwashed into MAGA, so they just hedge by blaming both.

      Those are the vast majority of non-voters who sleepwalked us into fascism, BTW. The Gaza protest types the neolibs keep trying to scapegoat, although indeed idiots who cut off their noses to spite their face, were way too few to be the real cause of Harris’s loss.

      • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 day ago

        the neolibs scapgoat for a reason. they know that bidens fundamental betrayal of humanity sucked the soul out of left support for the dems. they literally beat the palestinians to death and then, with bloody hands, blamed those who turned away in disgust from the atrocity.

        my family got off our asses and voted against fascism (that means voting for a deeply flawed harris) because we knew it would get much worse for everyone, not just already brutalized peoples - but I cannot stand here and judge anyone who could not stomach sanctioning more dem brutality under a deeply broken political system.

        the effect of dem war barbarism may have been small but, combined with every other dem betrayal, it very well could have been the difference for a fascist win. the neolibs scapegoat to deflect their failures as human beings and their decades long capitulation to the intolerable.

        having said that, I have seen more life in the traditional conservative republican of late ( @underwater@sh.itjust.works is an example) - even a momentary recognition of ideological failure on their part and a willingness to align with more progressive ideas. I have massive differences with so many conservative viewpoints, but they are not maga, have been thoughtful in their approach and, right now, I will take any productive and functional alliance I can get. if the unlikely aftermath of trump is a coalition of people willing to truly reform the barbaric, pseudo democratic american institution, then so be it. I am deeply sceptical that we will have the chance to get there.

        sorry for the wall-o-text.

        • grue@lemmy.world
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          1 day ago

          having said that, I have seen more life in the traditional conservative republican of late ( @underwater@sh.itjust.works is an example) - even a momentary recognition of ideological failure on their part and a willingness to align with more progressive ideas. I have massive differences with so many conservative viewpoints, but they are not maga, have been thoughtful in their approach and, right now, I will take any productive and functional alliance I can get.

          Just for the record, all those sorts of folks are actually classical liberals who are confused about labels/have fallen for the conservatives’ whitewashing of their ideology. Conservatism has always been about hierarchy and autocracy, which makes Trump the truest conservative the US has ever seen.

    • mister_flibble@lemm.ee
      15·
      1 day ago

      In my limited interaction with people who have moved away from Trump, there seems to be a “well they all actually fucking suck” stage in the middle. Would guess it’s that.