JD Vance snipes over survey forecasting grim GOP midterm election outcomes: ‘Fox News has the worst polling’ | EUROtoday

Vice President JD Vance took difficulty with a late January Fox News ballot exhibiting voters most well-liked Democrats over Republicans heading into 2026 midterm election season, as he made the case to voters in regards to the administration’s achievements to this point.

During an interview on Tuesday with anchor Martha MacCallum, Vance claimed Fox News all the time had the “worst” polls.

“I will say, as much as we love Fox News, we always think Fox News has the worst polling,” Vance mentioned as he chuckled. “Me and the president agree on that. I’m sorry. It’s true.”

Vance pivoted to touting the administration’s financial document, claiming American voters ought to rejoice that they have been about $1,200 richer for the reason that Trump administration took workplace, although he didn’t cite the supply of that statistic.

“If you’re looking at it from the perspective of the last year, Americans have done better,” Vance added. “If you look at it from the perspective of the Biden administration, we’re still digging out of the hole Democrats put us in.”

Elsewhere within the interview, Vance mocked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s latest, at-times obscure remarks on the Munich Security Conference, and downplayed hypothesis that he and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are quietly changing into rivals for the 2028 presidential nomination.

Recent polling suggests Democrats have the higher hand going into the midterms, the place affordability and different financial points are anticipated to be key subjects.

The Trump economic system has been a blended bag, with low inflation and a high-performing inventory market, whereas job progress has been meager and the Trump tariffs have triggered world financial uncertainty and did not generate a promised growth in manufacturing employment to this point.

“The worst calamity that everyone had in mind didn’t happen,” Jeffrey Cleveland, chief economist at Payden & Rygel, lately instructed The Wall Street Journal. “People would say to me, ‘The only way you’ll get to 2 percent inflation is the unemployment rate has to spike.’”

That hasn’t occurred, however the U.S. economic system solely added a mean of 15,000 jobs a month all through the final yr, a traditionally poor exhibiting for a non-recession yr.

“The labor market has been objectively weak,” he added.

Elsewhere, the Trump administration’s signature tax invoice has concentrated the overwhelming majority of its possible advantages among the many wealthiest fifth of Americans, in accordance with an evaluation from the Institution on Taxation and Economic Policy, whereas the White House nonetheless has not but handed the GOP’s long-promised plan to switch the Affordable Care Act, whilst well being subsidies expired final yr.

Meanwhile, the administration’s military-style immigration operations in cities like Minneapolis have continued to generate controversy.

Six in ten Americans consider Trump has “gone too far” in his immigration agenda, a latest AP-NORC ballot discovered.

Vance, in his Fox News interview, mentioned neither he nor the president favored the “videos” out of Minneapolis, the place federal brokers fatally shot two Americans protesting immigration operations in January.

The vp blamed immigration “chaos” on sanctuary jurisdictions that don’t proactively cooperate with immigration authorities.

“Where you have that chaos in Los Angeles, in Minneapolis, it’s because the local authorities are so committed to an open border that they want to put law enforcement at risk,” Vance mentioned. “We’re not going to surrender to that.”

In Minnesota, native leaders say, state jails and county sheriffs already cooperate with immigration enforcement to launch migrants into federal custody, although cities like Minneapolis don’t companion with federal officers to make immigration arrests.