Many Americans doubt Trump will be able to lower prices in his first year, an AP-NORC poll shows

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

80% : About half of Republicans say they think Trump will be a "great" president in his second term, while about 4 in 10 Republicans described him as a great president at the end of his first term.
76% : About 8 in 10 Republicans say Trump will be a "great" or "good" president in his second term, according to the poll.
57% : READ MORE: U.S. inflation gauge ticks higher with consumer prices on the rise Only about 2 in 10 Americans are "extremely" or "very" confident that Trump will be able to make progress on lowering the cost of groceries, housing or health care this year, according to a survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, while about 2 in 10 are "moderately" confident.
48% : During the presidential campaign, Trump said he would look at alternatives to the Affordable Care Act.
43% : AP VoteCast, an extensive survey of voters and nonvoters that aims to tell the story behind election results, showed that about 4 in 10 voters in the November election identified the economy and jobs as the most important issue facing the country and that about 6 in 10 of those voters cast their ballot for Trump.
40% : Less than half of Republicans are at least "very" confident that Trump will make progress on lowering food costs, housing costs or health care costs, although about 6 in 10 are at least "very" confident in his ability to create jobs.
37% : Only about 3 in 10 are highly confident in Trump's handling of the economy Much of the 2024 presidential campaign revolved around prices -- whether President Joe Biden, a Democrat, was to blame for inflation and whether Trump could fix it.
35% : But there are other policy areas where expectations for Trump aren't high across the board.
29% : As Trump takes office, though, the poll shows that many Americans don't anticipate that he will be able to immediately bring costs down.
20% : Health care is a particularly weak spot for Trump Americans are especially skeptical of Trump's ability to bring down health care costs or handle the issue of health care at all, the poll found.
19% : Democrats still overwhelmingly expect that Trump will be a "terrible" president, but that concern has lessened.
18% : About 6 in 10 Democrats think Trump will be a terrible president in his second term, down from three-quarters who said he was a terrible president at the end of his first term.
6% : Slightly fewer than half of U.S. adults expect Trump will be a "terrible" or "poor" president in his second term, essentially unchanged from when he left the White House in 2021. READ MORE: As term nears its end, Biden presidency viewed less favorably by Americans than Trump or Obama, AP-NORC poll finds But Republicans are expecting even bigger things from Trump this time, while Democrats' fears appear to be a little more muted.

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