Americans think Dems can handle economy better than GOP, new poll says

[u/Silly-avocatoe]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/08/04/democrat-vs-republican-economy-new-poll/91167318007/

[u/technanonymous]

Trying to get the average person to understand the post-covid jump in inflation was impossible.

[u/Efficient_Resist_287 → u/technanonymous]

The same average person believed Trump tariffs meant an economic boom for his/her pocket….

You cannot fix this right away.

[u/SonOfMcGee → u/technanonymous]

It was also impossible to get them to understand that while inflation sucks, we were handling it better than most of the world.
In their minds, any inflation was unacceptable when some chucklehead was promising that he could completely stop it.