So we have the polls which are false. We have, You can't look at the polls because Trump's agenda is not built for 100 days. And then you have Maria Bartiromo, who is a fox business host – at some point a very credible sales journalist, but now just a raging Trumpist – who explained that it is simply impossible not to see that the administration is a huge success. “There is no other way to watch these first 100 days apart from a huge success” is she said. And I suppose that the majority of Americans who do not agree – in the own Fox survey on this subject – are simply delusional.
Sargent: Well, yes, there was another interesting argument on Fox News of the contributor Ari Fleischer. He said: “The base will not crack” and added: “The base is solid for Donald Trump.” Fleischer said that the base would give him a lot of latitude because, once again, he houses these big consecutive problems. Now I don't know how solid the base is for Trump. Note that the Marist survey notes that among rural voters, Trump approval has flowed almost parity, 46–45, which is simply surprising given the historic rural support for Trump. And the CNN survey find That more than a quarter of the voters who approve of Trump say that his policies have increased costs on them, and 41% of those who approve of it say that it is likely that we are going to a recession next year. SO I don't know, Matt, when the prices start to bite more, does he start to lose more support from the base, or not?
Gertz: I think we will see a slow drop because people from the base realize what their policies do them. If you are a fox news host, each of your incentives will minimize the potential impacts of these prices, both On their viewers and the support of Donald Trump, because their audience is made up of the greatest supporters of Donald Trump; It will be the people who will be the last to abandon it if they do. But when we at Media Matters, listen, for example, call programs Right radio hosts, people like Sean Hannity, what we have started to hear is more and more often people who call and say, These prices are bad for my personal belongings. What's going on? When will he conclude the agreement so that we do not have to start dismissing people? I think we are going to end up seeing a moment “emperor has no clothes” here, where more and more audiences sees the impact that its policies have on their portfolios and are not willing to accept it.
