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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Trump Support Plummeting in State
Sun, 11 May 2025
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump getting a rude awakening in Michigan as the people of the state turn against him and Meiselas interviews Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson who is running for Governor about her thoughts on what she’s seeing in Michigan. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: Why are Trump's poll numbers plummeting in Michigan?
Donald Trump is getting a rude awakening in Michigan after going to Michigan to celebrate 100 days, the most disastrous days ever in the first 100 days of a presidency. We're getting new polling data out of Michigan and Donald Trump's poll numbers there are are crashing.
A recent poll out of Michigan is showing 56% of Michigan voters disapprove of Trump's performance after his first 100 days of his second term. Only 17% say it's pretty good. Only 24% of people
say that it is excellent but by far more people are viewing this as negative to catastrophic also when you dig into the numbers here uh donald trump is negative on every single issue the only issue though where he i guess is you know basically at a baseline even is i suppose his main issue immigration for which 48 percent of respondents in michigan gave him a positive rating
and 48% gave him a negative rating with still 4% undecided. And the pollster here says that it's clear from the data that he's beginning to suffer from his own base, from the own MAGA supporters, which is interesting because he's usually able to still hold that kind of MAGA crew. Of course, Michigan is a pivotal swing state, and unfortunately it went for Trump in the 2024 election.
Let me just show you the scene outside of that Trump rally or whatever the heck you want to call it, where he was there for his 100 days. It seemed like there were more protesters and more than even people who were actually at this event. Here was the scene outside of the event. Let's play it.
Thank you.
You know, one of the things, too, in Michigan that I've noticed also is that that Trumpism, that just kind of cruelty and meanness, unfortunately, seeps into that Republican Party there.
Their Speaker of the House, a guy named Matt Hall, just the insults that he uses, I mean, the way he refers to another state representative, Mai Zong, and I'll just play it for you, because they just use the Trump immature bullying, and this should Being nowhere, not in Michigan. We should just act like adults and be professional and carry ourselves with dignity and act responsibly.
But just watch. This is Michigan's Republican Speaker of the House. They all do like Trump routines now. Let's play it.
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Chapter 2: What are Michigan voters saying about Trump's performance?
Just watch this.
I need everything I can get. I don't need to be under a shower trying to get water to come out of that damn thing. So we've opened up the shower heads, the faucets, the toilets, the washing machines that don't give you water. All of that stuff has been opened up and we're giving.
Yeah, I mean, when people are feeling pain and we know the people in Michigan are feeling lots of pain, then he goes in and does that. I just go. this goes with your book. I just go, that's not right. Let's not talk about politics. I just go, that's not right. Like, don't we have to go back fundamentally to right, wrong, purpose, non-purpose.
Yeah, and bullies don't get to define who we are, right? No matter all the rhetoric, all the challenges, all the noise, the chaos, the cruelty, that does not have to define who we are. And we have a choice as citizens every day to wake up and say, that's not me. I will show myself, my community, our leaders, what leadership really looks like.
And I think we don't hear enough people, frankly, these days saying that's not right. Republicans, Democrats and everyone in between should be screaming this from the rooftops.
So much of what we're seeing now from the bullying that you just showed from Matt Hall, which was atrocious and unacceptable from any public official and to all of the confusing things that come out of the president's mouth. That's not right. And essentially, that's what I did in 2020 and beyond. Right. I stood up and I said, you can't take the votes of our citizens away.
You can't challenge our fair, accurate election results. That's not right. And some of my book is about how bullies punch back. Like there are consequences to standing up for what's right when when the stakes are high. But at the same time, that does not mean that we sit down.
It means that we build a plan strategically to prepare for that punch when it comes, but that should not deter us from standing up for what's right.
How big of an issue is Donald Trump's insulting of Canada on the economy of Michigan? And how big of an impact are you seeing there? I mean, it's not just the tariffs, right? When Donald Trump uses language of annexation, you know, all of our Canadian supporters who call themselves the maple Midas, they go, Ben, that's war language. He's speaking the way Vladimir Putin speaks.
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