President Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ crowd is becoming a bit sceptical of the nation’s trajectory, new polling has shown.
At the beginning of September, 17% of Trump voters believed the country was on the wrong track. That number jumped to 22% by the end of the month.
The AP-NORC found the amount of Conservatives believing the US was heading in the wrong direction jumped from 29% in June to 51% in September.
In July, less than six months into his second term as President, polls revealed his overall job approval had slid to just 37% approval, according to Gallup.
YouGov polling in the same month showed Gen Z almost completely turned on the president. His approval rating among 18 to 29-year-olds sat at a rather lowly 28%.
It comes at a tumultuous time for America.
In September alone, Charlie Kirk was killed, Trump introduced a peace plan for Gaza, and the US government shut down while under Republican control – though conservatives are blaming Democrats for it.
Excerpts of Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday album were also made public, revealing damning messages from close friends, including one appearing to be from Trump himself.
All of this appears to have sown seeds of doubt in Trump’s followers – and the polling points prove it.
Trump’s press conference with Health Secretary Robert Kennedy, in which the pair claimed paracetamol and vaccinations are linked to a ‘horrible crisis’ of autism and its ‘meteoric rise’ in the US, sparked outrage in both political parties.
Trump claimed that autism rates have surged more than 400% since 2000 – but in that time, diagnoses have become easier to get and the term has expanded to include Asperger’s Syndrome and other offshoots of Autism.
UK experts have said Trump’s announcement that paracetamol use is ‘linked to autism’ is fearmongering.
Scientists and academics have since slammed the claim, with one saying the claim risks stigmatising families who have autistic children as ‘having brought it on themselves’.
An alleged note in Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday book, released in early October, also caused furore amongst both political parties, as it appears to be signed by Trump.
The note, allegedly from Trump, had a rudimentary drawing of what appeared to be a young girl’s body.
Trump and the White House fervently denied his involvement in the book and prompted legal teams to sue papers reporting on the alleged link.
After a bombshell conference with Epstein survivors, one of Trump’s major allies turned against her own party and urged for all files relating to the paedophile to be made public.
‘If they want to give me a list, I will walk into that Capitol on the House floor and I’ll say every damn name that abused these women,’ Marjorie Taylor Greene said.
‘This isn’t one political party or the other. It’s a culmination of everyone working together to silence these women and protect Jeffrey Epstein and his cabal.’
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