Whit Ayres’ comments in The Hill regarding the economy and President Trump:
“The two most important reasons why Donald Trump won the presidency in 2024 were to bring down inflation and juice the economy. The progress on those two efforts will go a long way toward determining the president’s job approval and the fortunes of Republicans going forward,” said Whit Ayres, a leading Republican pollster.
“There’s been a tremendous amount of attention paid to the [Jeffrey] Epstein case, but progress on inflation and economic growth will be far more important than the Epstein case to the vast majority of Americans,” he added.
Ayres said polls show voters increasingly view the economy as Trump’s economy, a perception that took hold after Trump announced sweeping reciprocal tariffs on most countries on April 2, “Liberation Day.”
“Polls show increasingly that the status of the economy is due to policies adopted during the Trump administration rather than those adopted in the Biden administration. That has been the case ever since Liberation Day on April 2 with the tariff announcement,” he said.
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