{"id":7828,"date":"2025-04-27T00:41:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T00:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=7828"},"modified":"2025-04-27T00:41:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T00:41:32","slug":"nearly-two-thirds-of-americans-disapprove-of-trump-tariffs-with-inflation-a-broad-concern-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=7828","title":{"rendered":"Nearly two-thirds of Americans disapprove of Trump tariffs, with inflation a broad concern: POLL"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Seven in 10 Americans think President Donald Trump’s tariffs on international trade will drive up U.S. inflation, outweighing hopes that they’ll boost manufacturing employment and fueling a 64% disapproval rate of how he’s handling the issue.<\/p>\n

Even nearly half of Republicans — 47% in the ABC News\/Washington Post\/Ipsos poll released Friday — said they think tariffs will negatively impact inflation. That jumps to 75% among independents, a swing group in national politics.<\/p>\n

The tariffs admittedly are a moving target. The administration has paused some (albeit not those on China) pending negotiations.<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump delivers remarks on tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, April 2, 2025.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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And there is a perceived positive: 59% said they think the tariffs will have a positive impact on creating manufacturing jobs in the United States, including 90% of Republicans and 60% of independents. That, along with bringing prices down, were some of Trump’s key campaign promises.<\/p>\n

But — given the current state of play — the scale tips negative again on a third factor: 56% in this poll, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates<\/a> with fieldwork by Ipsos<\/a>, think Trump’s handling of tariffs will negatively impact America’s economic leadership in the world vs. 42% who see a positive impact.<\/p>\n

See PDF for full results.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Views on Tariffs<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Democrats, for their part, are roundly opposed to the tariffs. Nine in 10 think they will negatively impact inflation (90%) and U.S. economic leadership in the world (89%) alike, and a near-unanimous 96% disapprove of Trump’s handling of them. Democrats aren’t sold on tariffs creating manufacturing jobs, either: 68% think they’ll hurt, not help.<\/p>\n

Given inflation fears, Trump’s overall rating for handling tariffs is a broad 30 percentage points underwater, 34%-64%. That’s far worse than his 7-point deficit in approval on handling immigration (as reported here<\/a>), demonstrating that public sentiment is especially prickly when economic well-being is on the line.<\/p>\n

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Indeed, in his own party, 25% of Republicans disapprove of Trump’s handling of tariffs, as do 30% of conservatives. And disapproval reaches 48% among non-college-educated white men and 47% of rural Americans, two of Trump’s core support groups.<\/p>\n

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Approval of Trump\u2019s Handling of Tariffs Among Groups<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Methodology:<\/strong> This ABC News\/Washington Post\/Ipsos poll was conducted online via the probability-based Ipsos KnowledgePanel\u00ae April 18-22, 2025, in English and Spanish, among a random national sample of 2,464 adults. Partisan divisions are 30%-30%-29%, Democrats-Republicans-independents.<\/p>\n

Results have a margin of error<\/a> of 2 percentage points, including the design effect. Error margins are larger for subgroups. Sampling error is not the only source of differences in polls.<\/p>\n

The survey was produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associates<\/a>, with sampling and data collection by Ipsos. See details on ABC News survey methodology here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seven in 10 Americans think President Donald Trump’s tariffs on international trade will drive up U.S. inflation, outweighing hopes that they’ll boost manufacturing employment and fueling a 64% disapproval rate of how he’s handling the issue. Even nearly half of Republicans — 47% in the ABC News\/Washington Post\/Ipsos poll released Friday — said they think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7830,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828\/revisions\/7830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}