'He's totally blown it': Trump warned his polling numbers are about to get much worse
Reacting to new polling that shows Donald Trump's approval ratings are cratering, a longtime GOP insider claimed the embattled president's slide with voters will continue unless he makes major changes.
Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend," GOP strategist Brendan Buck took issue with co-host Michael Steele who told the panel to slow down their enthusiasm over the president's growing unpopularity.
"Obviously it's just a snapshot, but I certainly don't think it's going to get better for him anytime soon," Buck countered.
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"I mean, this is a president who absolutely believes in what he's doing and they throw around this word mandate a lot; they think they had a mandate to come and I'm, no actually –– I don't know that they actually did have a mandate to do that and every president says that they have a mandate," he added with a grin. "If he had a mandate to do anything, it was to address the cost of living and he's certainly not doing that."
"I think what's amazing in all of this polling is how much he has undermined the advantages he had going in," he elaborated. "He had a real advantage on the issue of immigration–– now he's underwater on immigration. That's remarkable and, of course, on the economy, this economy was ready to get going, it was going to be roaring if he had just gotten out of the way a little bit."
"Just keep things humming, especially in contrast to what we had been through under Joe Biden," he added. "Just stay out of the way, you would have been fine, and he's totally blown it."
'To your point, tariffs are just getting started. this is only going to get worse," he predicted. "You know, if anything is going to sort of check him, the guardrails are public opinion. So maybe he'll see some of this and realize that it shouldn't, he shouldn't go forward. But he's not shown himself to be somebody who, you know, recalibrates."
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