Trump continues to downplay value of residing considerations. But polling reveals affordability stays a prime situation for a lot of Americans | EUROtoday

The value of residing stays Americans’ primary concern, new polling has discovered — regardless of President Donald Trump’s repeated insistence that we have by no means had it so good.

Asked to decide on one factor they’d inform the president to deal with to make life higher if they’d the possibility, 32 % of respondents cited financial or value of residing considerations in a current ballot performed by SSRS for CNN.

That quantity rose to roughly 40 % amongst Republican voters and Republican-leaning independents, CNN stories.

For comparability, solely 5 % of all respondents selected immigration and border enforcement, whereas 1 % selected crime and public security.

It comes after client confidence within the U.S. financial system decreased for the fifth consecutive month in December, in line with one widely-watched measure.

In speeches and Truth Social posts, Trump has vehemently claimed that we’re already in a “golden age” and that America is “doing better than we’ve ever done as a country”.

“While my great work on the Economy has not yet been fully appreciated, it will be!” he declared final month. “The word affordability is a Democrat scam,” he added in December.

But the proof means that appreciation remains to be in scant provide. Respondents within the CNN ballot cited quite a few particular financial points as their prime concern, akin to “help [the] middle class”, “health care costs”, “protect social security”, “housing costs”, and “food prices”.

Altogether, wrote pollsters SSRS in a press launch, that amounted to 32 % of all respondents. A whopping 16 % stated they’d inform Trump to resign, whereas 8 % gave “general positive comments”.

On Tuesday, the Conference Board — a enterprise analysis nonprofit — stated its client confidence index had dropped from 92.9 in October to 89.1 in November, whereas respondents’ evaluation of present enterprise circumstances turned detrimental for the primary time since September 2024.

Another comparable survey by the University of Michigan confirmed completely different outcomes, with customers’ temper mildly enhancing in December in comparison with October.

Former MAGA loyalist turned Trump critic Marjorie Taylor Greene pointed to current knowledge suggesting that healthcare prices accounted for a lot of the rise in client spending in the course of the third quarter of this 12 months.

“I’ve warned for months now of the financial crisis for Americans regarding healthcare and here it is,” she stated on X. “Republican failure to fix this is going to cost them big time in midterms. Republicans can’t blame Democrats when they do nothing to fix it.”

Not that voters appear to imagine it is going to be mounted any time quickly. Asked within the CNN ballot whether or not they believed Trump cared what they needed to say, 51 % answered: “Not at all.” Around 38 % imagine the identical is true for Democratic leaders.