Column | Some Trump voters worry he is ignoring 'bigger issues' like economy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Bipartisan research finds a key group of voters see the president as distracted from fighting inflation.
56% : "I would just like Trump to focus more on the economy.
54% : The findings offer more personal, granular examples of how voters want Trump to focus again on the economy.
52% : Voters giving Trump poor grades on the economy is one of the key findings from an intense multi-month study of roughly three dozen voters, overseen by Center Forward, a nonpartisan nonprofit that strives to create more bipartisan conversations among Washington leaders.
50% : " The responses from independent voters should be concerning for Republicans, including two who voted for Trump and felt optimistic after his victory but more pessimistic by late February.
44% : "After the election, we saw a wave of economic optimism among Trump supporters, but that optimism is running into the reality that the cost of living remains stubbornly high and change may not be as rapid as expected," said Robert Jones, a GOP pollster for GS Strategy Group.
42% : And these were views from people who voted for Trump last fall.
37% : The view from Harris supporters, however, is quite bleak. More than two-thirds of them, in their journal entries, predicted that not a single thing Trump did as president would have a "positive impact" on the nation.
17% : Before the election, 17 said they would vote for Kamala Harris, 11 said they would vote for Trump, and seven were undecided.

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