Seasoned Republican pollster and author Sarah Longwell suggested Wednesday that Americans who voted for President Donald Trump are beginning to have “buyers’ remorse,” citing a pool of focus groups she’s conducted full of MAGA voters who expressed less-than-positive reviews of the president’s first month.
“I think what we’re starting to see is the very beginning of buyer’s remorse setting in,” Longwell told MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace on Deadline: White House. “And the voters that I was talking to both before the election and after … They voted for Donald Trump for one very specific reason—they thought things were too expensive, and they still think things are too expensive.”
The segment also played a few recordings sent over by frustrated Trump voters who detailed why they’ve been disappointed with the president’s moves so far.
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One voter said: “There’s a lot of babies being tossed out with the bath water, to use an old-fashioned phrase, in this first few weeks … I’m disappointed about this with President Trump because he served before, we’re just forfeiting respect internationally daily.”
“If we had a drinking game where everyone took a drink when the word ‘reverse course’ or ‘walking this back,’ we’d be drunk in 20 minutes,” he continued. “It’s chaos up there.”
Longwell continued to note that while there have been some positive reactions toward the Department of Government Efficiency, others have begun feeling the adverse effects of Elon Musk’s frantic changes.
“People are experiencing negative personal consequences as a result,” Longwell claimed, pointing to how “vast” Musk’s work and reach has been.
“You can see it in the poll numbers. I can hear it in the focus groups, like it’s already starting to turn,” Longwell continued on the president’s seeming status within members of the Republican Party and even with non-MAGA folk who voted for him because they were “just mad about the economy.”
“That is a bad sign for Trump because honeymoons, even for him he was getting a pretty muted honeymoon, but honeymoons still usually last a little bit longer than this,” she continued.
