Trump wins over swing voters with Joe Rogan interview: Analysis

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : "One is left wondering how much better Trump might be faring had he adopted this more thoughtful, presidential style rather than the more aggressive, reactionary approach with which we are more familiar?"
48% : "Rather than ranting and railing, playing the victim and aggressor, Trump adopted a more conciliatory tone.
47% : The episode with Trump racked up more than 26 million views on YouTube in the first 24 hours.
47% : "And might Trump be tempted to adopt a similar persona for the remainder of the campaign?"Fast forward 24 hours to a rally in New York City and we quickly found our answer as The Donald morphed back into the Trump of old.
46% : Snape said despite that, the positive swing for Trump, who has trailed Harris in some positivity rankings in recent weeks, could not be ignored.
41% : This went down very well with many swing voters who spoke of Trump in way we have never seen before.
39% : Looking at swing voters' reactions online, Impact Social found people viewed Trump as "thoughtful" and "wise" during his chat with Rogan, who challenged him on claims the last election was stolen.
38% : "Trump presented himself in a way seldom seen on the campaign trail," Phil Snape of Impact Social wrote.
37% : "The tracker showed Trump with a 16 percent positive rating, against a 13 percent negative score, with 71 percent having a neutral view of him.
36% : Since the tracker began in June 2020, during the previous presidential election campaign, Trump had not enjoyed a net-positive score, until his appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience.
30% : Those who were more left leaning in Impact Social's analysis did not appear as impressed with Trump, who was still viewed as rambling and incoherent, still trying to defend his record.
19% : During the interview, Trump spoke of his regrets from his first term in the White House, floated policy ideas including scrapping income tax, and repeated debunked claims about the 2020 election results.

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