David Brooks:
What’s striking about those numbers is his economic rating is underneath his overall rating, when the economy was generally his strong thing. So that’s — and the same with immigration. So that’s kind of telling.
Among the Trump supporters that I have spoken to in the last three or four weeks, I would say there’s some group who think, I’m taking hit on my retirement money, this is disrupting me, but I love my country and I’m willing to pay the price for the long-term benefit of this country. So that’s a chunk.
Then there’s a chunk who are still Trump supporters, but who are now filled with a lot of ambivalence. And so this is really messing up my business as an electrician. This is really messing up my supply chain. This is my small business, I don’t know. I wish he had gone after China, but not after Europe on tariffs.
So they’re still supportive, but they’re super ambivalent. And then there’s another group of people who are more swingy and a little more independent. And some of them are saying, I don’t know about this. But then if you go down the income scale, there are a lot of people who are Trump voters who are, like, panicked. Like, when they see a $9 carton of eggs, that’s like — that’s a reality.
And so those people are flaking off big time. And so when you look at the where the Trump is losing the support, it’s among those independents and especially a little lower down the income stream. But the rest are — there are a lot of waverers, and they’re like, I don’t know, this doesn’t look good, but they haven’t made a decision yet.
