The White House faces an uphill battle as Trump prepares to deliver the first State of the Union of his second administration.
There has been a bitter struggle between Trump and the American people since the 2024 election.
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The American people want Trump to focus on affordability and costs, while Donald Trump wants to discuss everything and nothing else. Trump continues to call affordability a hoax and claimed last week that he had defeated affordability.
The electoral landscape, as summarized by CNBC, shows a dire political situation for Trump and the Republican Party:
In a CNN/SSRS poll released Monday, 57 percent of respondents said what they most wanted Trump to talk about in his State of the Union was the economy. Immigration comes in a distant second, with only 13% of respondents saying they would prefer the president to speak out on the issue.
Democrats took a 4.8-point lead in the congressional wild card leading to the 2026 midterm elections, according to RealClearPolitics polling averages. Trump is underwater by 13 points in this same average. Meanwhile, 57% of voters disapprove of his handling of the economy in a recent Washington Post/Reuters/Ipsos poll.
The Trump administration doesn’t want to tackle the real economy, so it started pretending that Donald Trump wasn’t in office last year, so all the harm Trump did to the economy is actually Joe Biden’s fault.
You really have to see how Karoline Leavitt did it to believe it.