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Chapter 1: What are Trump voters saying about his approval ratings?
As Donald Trump's approval is plummeting, former Trump voters are speaking out right now against his heinous policies. We're seeing his approval on the economy absolutely tank his lowest levels, frankly, ever, including the first Trump administration. And we're getting lots of comments like this. So now Musk and Trump are planning to dissolve Social Security and Medicare. I did not vote for that.
Here are some comments from the Fox News audience post. Trump's chaos is tanking the markets and inflation isn't reversing. Trump's own DJT stock and cryptocurrency are dropping dramatically. When he complains about the current trade relations with Canada and Mexico, keep in mind, it's his deal that he's complaining about. These are post folks from the Fox message board.
Someone posts, we're already in a recession. The stock market's dropped like 2000 points in the first month of the Trump presidency. I voted for Trump. I'm a Trump supporter. But what he's doing right now is the wrong time to do it. Here's someone posted the following. Yo, tell me why my neighbor confessed. Confessed.
and said, quote, my dumb ass voted for Trump, but now he's trying to take my job. Her reason, immigrants. I asked her how immigrants affected her. She had no idea, honestly. Typical red state. The good news is, she said, next time she'll vote who I vote for. Here's another Trump voter. WTF, I voted for Trump. This is not okay. You said you would support the VA and help all veterans.
And this individual is responding to Trump's plans to fire over 70,000 employees. at the VA. And as the markets were tanking, what was Donald Trump doing? He was selling Teslas yesterday with Elon Musk, selling Teslas. And then what does the speaker, Mike Johnson, have to say? Here's what Mike Johnson said about all of this. Play this clip.
Seen this movie before. George Soros funded groups and others, literally pay protesters. And, you know,
He's saying George Soros is sending paid protesters and that's why people are upset. What's going on? We got to bring in Democratic leader, Congress member Hakeem Jeffries. Congress member Jeffries, what's going on? Are you seeing shifts in the country right now? And what are the Democrats doing?
Well, great to be with you, Ben. Our theory of the case from the very beginning is that we've got to make sure Trump's biggest strength as of January 20th, which was the economy, turned into his greatest weakness because we knew from the very beginning that Donald Trump had no intention of trying to lower the high cost of living in the United States of America.
He promised that costs were going to drop on day one. But we know, of course, that costs aren't going down. They're going up. Grocery prices are going up. Inflation is going up. What's going down are the retirement savings of the American people because Trump is plummeting the stock market and crashing the economy in real time. And we're going to stay on this issue.
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Chapter 2: How is Trump's economic policy affecting the markets?
Listen to people's stories to tell us what it's like to live paycheck to paycheck. Explain to us what you're going through with these Medicaid cuts and share those and share those stories. So in addition to the day of kind of focusing on the Medicaid cuts, you know, is that the beginning? And there's kind of a.
What else are we expecting to see with, you know, that's critical, of course, but is there going to be, you know, other kind of, you know, going into red states or what does that plan look like?
Yeah, no, it's a great question, Ben. And we launched our first hearing yesterday. Last week, it was a steering and policy hearing convened by Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Congresswoman Robin Kelly, and Congresswoman Nanette Barragan. That was on the Hill, lifting up the stories of everyday Americans who will be impacted by these Medicaid cuts.
The week after next, when we're back on the Hill, we're going to have another hearing that will feature everyday Americans who can tell their stories related to nutritional assistance and how the cuts will impact their ability to put food on the table for their children. or for their elderly parents.
But the Steering and Policy Committee, to your point and question, is also going to be hitting the road in blue states, purple states, and red states, so we can hear from everyday Americans across the country about how they are struggling to make ends meet, how they are struggling to live paycheck to paycheck, which should not be the case.
This is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We have to build an affordable economy where everyone when you work hard and play by the rules, can provide a comfortable living for yourself and for your family. That is the democratic objective as it relates to the type of country we should be living in. Donald Trump is actually taking things in the other direction.
He's crashing the economy in real time and leading us to a Republican recession in all likelihood, and that will be devastating.
Yeah, people are calling it already the Trump recession or the Trump economic downturn. Just finally, Leader Jeffries, what's your message just in general to the American people, whether they're Democrats, independents, Republicans, people who never paid attention to politics until politics certainly paid attention to them now. They're seeing it in their 401ks.
What's your message right now where we are March 12th as we're recording this?
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