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Trump Gets Catastrophic News With War Poll

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump getting horrible polling on the war from Fox, Politico, and Washington Post all on the same day. Select Quote: Save more than 50% on term life i...

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It gets even worse for Donald Trump, as I previously reported, Donald Trump's...

is the worst in presidential history, so how does it get worse? Well, he beats his own record. He gets more bad polls, the least popular ever, and there were three new polls that just dropped one, from Washington Post, one from Politico, and one from state regime media, which calls itself Fox, and on Fox, they said, "Don't know how else to really say this, but this is

really, really bad for Republicans." And the data from Fox shows in a generic matchup for the midterms, Democrats are also surging ahead right now, as Donald Trump gets us deeper and deeper into this catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran. Let's go through this polling data right now. Washington Post, the percentage

of Americans who say it's worth fighting, only 28 percent, not worth fighting, 68 percent.

How about the share of Maga voters who think the war is worth the economic cost?

These are Maga voters, hard core Maga voters, that fell from 50 percent in May to 37 percent in July in the latest polling, so the share of Maga voters who think the war is worth the economic cost fell from 50 percent in May to 37 percent in July, while more now say the U.S. should only stay involved if cost don't rise further or end the war all together. We're talking about some of Donald Trump's most hardcore supporters. Let's take a look at what they just said on

state regime media, which calls itself Fox, break you, break bear, they are panicking right now. Let's play this clip. You look at our polls and you look at the condition of the economy.

This is the one for midterms we look at closely and that is excellent or good, 24 percent,

only fair or poor, 76 percent, and that has got to have Republicans, Senate and House,

concerned. Absolutely, Bradden and the truth is there's not much goodness for Republicans

in this whole poll we did. Underwater on the economy as you showed, underwater on affordability, those two issues are the front and center for sure. Republicans have a little bit of a lead on national security and I guess law enforcement, but everywhere you look, Republicans are down now. There is one, there is a bit of good news. You mentioned the redistricting who helped them with seats in the house and they will probably need every one of them that they could get from that.

Now while they're doing that, Donald Trump was posting photos of himself looking like the deranged lunatic piece of trash, human walking piece of trash that he is, Donald Trump post, Trump orders sent come to open the gates of hell after U.S. troop killed launches strikes on Iran to which the Houthis immediately responded by striking Saudi Arabia tankers and then the straight of Hormuz, the Iranians responded by striking a tanker there and having others turn around.

And as decoding Fox News, Hattip to decoding Fox News, want to give Hattip to her, support her work. She's got a great sub stack also at decoding Fox News. The folks at Fox News are openly criticizing Trump's war and Iran, they explained it to code in Fox News. They know he watches it all day long,

so here's what they're saying. Let's take a look. Let's play it.

Nine straight days, they're really hitting Kuwait hard and they're hitting Bahrain and but Jordan is the biggest surprise. Yes, yes, we got a missile defense there. Simple as that. But I can't, I do expect that we're going to be there a long time. You know, operation,

northern southern watch went on for almost 20 years, I think. So one of the things that's

really alarming right now is that those strikes on Jordan were pretty advanced weapons and we certainly felt like a lot of the strikes previously had taken out there a lot of their missile capabilities, so that is definitely alarming. We have to do Mark Warner's right, bombing along may not work. We do not know if we ever control the streets of Ramos. Because, you know, there aren't too many approaches. There are too many choices left available.

Unfortunately, once you've started something like this, the way you finish it is with American ground troops and, you know, we're saddened and disgusted to hear about those newly minted gold star families. That is not what we want. But if we see a ground invasion, you're going to see a lot more than that. And you're going to, you know, you're going to have young people whose lives are destroyed. And, you know, we're not going to be saying their names

every day on TV. And it's not just politically costly. It's, at some point, it gets to be

Immoral.

This is not a political comment. But it may be worse than the deal Obama struck. Because you're

going to have to unfreeze all of that money. If we don't want to put troops on the ground,

because guess who else knows we don't want to put troops on the ground? The Iranians. Yeah. So again, this is not what I want to have happened. And Mark Warner loves this country. I am coming up. The U.S. launching more strikes tonight in Iran, a live report from the region plus, what's this going to do to Republicans in the midterms? Remembers of our military were killed over the weekend, tragedy. And with the midterm elections a little more than a hundred days away,

the clock is ticking. For President Trump to get out of this war before voters head to the polls. It's making a lot of Republicans nervous. It's already, as we know, on popular,

according to the new, new Washington Post, Epsos polls, 69 percent of Americans

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No, the analysis here by Daniel Davis deep dive. I think is on point here. He says shortly before

answer ala fire. That's the hoothies in Yemen. Fireed on two Saudi Arabian ships. Yesterday evening in the Red Sea, Trump posted on his true social open the gates of hell. It should be painfully evident to everyone, even Trump that these threats and military actions

will never compel Iran or the Yemen Rebels to submit to his will. It will do the opposite.

Now, Trump is starting to face the reality that the application of firepower is not only failing to achieve positive results. It is making our situation worse, hardening the resolve of our adversaries and deepening the cost of our increasing strategic failure. Now, it ain't just the straight of her moves. That's close. It's Babel Mandob. Things are going to get worse for the United States financially. Trump does not appear to be even close to the point where he realizes that more

lethal power equals a worsening position for him. I think we can expect that he'll probably escalate even more in the coming days, making our position even more intractable and raising the cost on our country before possible reality will compel him to change. Of course, even his boy Steve Bannon, even his buddy Steve Bannon went on his podcast, brought in someone from Politico, and watched what they said. This is Bannon. Let's play it. Megan, this poll, walk us through it.

Um, because it's just not the absolute number of the poll. It's about the trend of the poll. This poll was taken and a part of the highlighted this is President Trump's most ardent supporters that the Maca base and these numbers are pretty shocking. I mean, there would be pretty shocking

to people that didn't listen to the war every day or weren't part of the country. Can you walk us through it?

Yeah, I think this comes as no surprise to anyone who is, you know, part of the Maca base and has been hearing these perpetual concerns about the war and having concerns themselves about the war and its costs and what we really find here is that, you know, as of May and our political poll half of the Maca base thought that the war was worth the economic cost. Obviously, folks very supportive of the President inclined to trust him, you know, receptive to the argument

that this was about, you know, stopping around from having nuclear weapons. Now we see as we are, you know, now entering the fifth month of war here that only a little more than a third of the Maca base still believes that the war is worth the economic cost here. So that's a 13 point dip. And at the same time, 37% self-identified Maca Trump voters say the U.S. should only continue

Being in the war if it doesn't increase costs.

actually just end the war and Iran regardless of the costs, right? There's some pretty shocking numbers here to folks who haven't been watching this but to your point, not spreading to folks

who have been having these concerns themselves. So that's what Bannon said. What about Nancy Mace?

What did Nancy Mace say? I mean, we're talking about ultra Magarite here. Let's play this clip to show you what Nancy Mace had to say. Let's play it. What are you hearing from your constituents about affordability? Oh, if people can't afford it. I mean, they're getting tax on everything. Ghostries rub electricity is up. Their mortgages are the interest rates, rent is up in Mount Pleasant and my district for a three-bedroom apartment is going to cost you $5,000 a month.

I know I know what you can afford that. It's crazy. Trump had said that he was going to bring down electricity. By 50% hasn't happened yet, has it? No, it hasn't. Yeah. Thank you, thank you. Again, you take a look at that state regime media poll one more time. The generic poll by Fox shows Democrats taking a usually 53% to 46%. This is the highest, either party has hit in a Fox generic poll. Since 1996, since 1996. So what is Magarite public in Congress member Tom Emerson? He's one of the

leaders of the Magarite public in Congress. He said, look, the economy's now working for everyone. Things are looking great and he said that when people feel bad, their feelings are wrong. And by September, the Magas say that people will realize their feelings are wrong and that their reality is actually an economic golden age. They're just, they feel incorrectly because everything's

so amazing. That's what Magas is going with. Let's play it. Other border. It's about an economy

that is starting to work for everyone. You look at real wages are growing faster than inflation. You look at the lower rungs of the prosperity ladder in this country. They are actually

catching up for the first time in years. Their spending is up about 6% right now. They are

feeling better about the economy. And if their perception is, they're in a better place than they were under Joe Biden and they see a bright future. Guess what, guys, we're going to hold the house. We're going to hold the Senate and we're going to finish out Trump's term in style. In Congressmen, I do have to point out though that there still are many Americans on both sides of the aisle who are feeling financial pressure, financial strain on various levels, whether it be

because of the war in Iran or maybe inflation not going down as quickly as we had hoped. What is your message to them? Because we keep telling them to be patient and they may feel that they just don't have patients left? Well, Katrina, I guess I'm pushing back on that by telling

you that while there are people and they're always will that are going to be struggling,

what they're staying compared to what is happening is not matching. And what you're going to see,

I believe, is by early September. Those two things, the perception of their economic reality

and they're literally the economic reality are going to be intersecting. The economy, nobody's talking about 99 Senates and you're correct, by the way, when you talk about, for instance, gas prices, gas prices because of the war in Iran. I have been definitely impacted and people see that on a daily basis. But I would argue to you that with the president of peace, what he tried to do with Iran, and he told everybody that once he got to that point,

you were going to see gas prices come tumbling down Katrina. We, in fact, saw that until the Iranians walked down to the deal, I would say the IRGC walked down to the deal. Also, inflation came down shortly after that. That's right. Yes. Yep. Congressman Tom Emerson. We got to leave it there. Then you have Maguri Public and Congress member Carlos Hemenez from Florida saying,

"Sure, this war may be unpopular, but so is World War II before it started." Just like World War II, this may become popular soon. You want us to be involved in World War II? Oh, wait, you know, we're kind of our involved in World War III. You take a look at Russia's invasion of Ukraine every day there. You've got these dark mushroom cloud looking things over the facilities that are being destroyed, both in Russia now and in Kiev. That's going there.

The Middle East has been lit on fire every Africa. There's wars everywhere. You know,

Venezuela, I mean, you know, threatened in war on Cuba. Anyway, here's what Carlos Hemenez says.

Let's play it. President Trump this morning said that Americans quote, "art against the war." End quote. Despite a lot of polling to the contrary, in a recent Washington Post if so surveyed 68% of Americans said the war was not worth fighting while 28% said it was. I didn't explain the disconnect between what the president says and how Americans feel according to almost all of these most recent polls. Well, you know, I'm not going to speak for the

President that I think that I'm not going to dispute the polls either, but I ...

you know, prior to World War II, 85% of Americans were not in favor of entering war and then

it all changed in one day. I think the president and frankly us, we have to explain why it is that we are,

we are hitting Iran that we don't, we want to make sure Iran never gets a new clear weapon.

Iran has been saying for 47 years, death to America, death to Israel. When somebody's been talking like that for 47 years, I tend to, you know, listen and think that they're serious about it. So this war is really not about us. This war war is really about protecting our children and our grandchildren. And I'm willing to make that investment. And so while many Americans may think that

it's we shouldn't be doing this, I believe we should, because I want to protect my children and

my grandchildren and the future from a nuclear on Iran. But Donald Trump says, we don't need the Hormuz Street. We don't need them streets in Hormuz. Let's play this clip. We don't need anything. We don't need the Hormuz Street, but we do it because we have to do it because we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. And then just for the hell of it, I'll just show you what Lauren Bobert had to say about that she believes that the moon landing was done in Amazon warehouses. Let's play.

Here's what I got a real important question from you from the fellows at minus touch. They want to know where you're at on the moon landing,

which the anniversary of it was yesterday. I don't know. I think it's done in the Amazon warehouse.

Oh, they didn't have those in different warehouses. See, do you have a place that we like the other moon? No? I do not convince of half the things government tells us, how great they think. Thank you, there you have it, everybody. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to seven

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