This is yet another poll that shows Trump should really just focus on the economy. Stop with all the Being Trump, and talk about people’s wallets
North Carolina voters view the economy and health care as the top issues heading into the 2024 general election season, according to a new WRAL News poll.
The latest WRAL poll asked voters to name the issue that’s most important to them. The results showed concerns about crime education, guns and half a dozen other topics.
Voters agree on the importance of many top issues, but not all. Abortion and immigration are the two most polarizing topics among supporters of Democratic President Joe Biden and his presumptive Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump.
The poll asked voters to rate a variety of issues on a scale of 1 to 10, with higher numbers signifying the issues were more important to them. When asked about immigration 54% of Trump supporters gave it the highest possible priority, triple the 18% of Biden supporters who said the same.
Similarly, on abortion, 35% of Biden supporters gave it the highest possible priority, about twice the 18% of Trump supporters who said the same. In fact, so many registered Republican voters rated abortion as a low priority that it ranked last overall among all voters in the state, even despite nearly all Democrats and unaffiliated voters indicating it’s a medium-to-high priority issue for them.
Those are numbers that will drive out the bases. The problem here is that WRAL gives no link to the poll, and doesn’t really touch on the numbers from the headline.
The economy emerged as the top issue in the poll, with 42% of all likely voters giving it their highest possible ranking, 10 out of 10. Health care came second — its average score was tied with the economy, although fewer people gave it the highest possible priority — followed by crime and public safety.
Next was national security and international affairs — possibly driven by high-profile debates over issues such as whether to continue supplying Ukraine and Israel in their ongoing wars against Russia and Hamas, or how to address China’s growing wealth and influence.
Education, immigration and guns came next, followed by mental health and addiction issues. Tied for last were abortion and the environment.
Citizens know the economy is not doing well. They see it every day they go to buy food. They know crime is a problem. Trump has a chance to talk about healthcare, considering that Obamacare did not help much. Citizens see that international national security is a mess under Biden. Trump should not focus on base issues like immigration, and focus on the things that could drive Never Trump Republicans to hold their nose and vote Trump. He could tell them “sure, you don’t like me, that’s fine. But, we agree on the issues. Do you agree with Biden? Do you want four more years of this?” And he should stop getting in spats with Republicans and private citizens. Yeah, I know I’m asking a lot.
What the article on the poll doesn’t say is anything on the opinions of Independents. Are they included? 24% of people polled on candidate support in NC stated they were Independents. Trump needs to focus on what they care about, like the economy. He needs their votes. He might even attract some squishy Democrats, who know things are not good. But, Trump is Trump, and he’ll continue with his old playbook, so, time will tell.
Immigration ranked 6th out of 10
The economy continues to improve with wages out pacing inflation for the last 3 months. The single largest voting block are women. I think their votes will be most critical.
Americans spend only about 12% of their household income on food. It has gone up 2% from 10% under Trump. Wage growth has gone up the last 3 months and now is at 4.5% with inflation at 3.5%
Of course capitalists are happy with their records high profits especially in those food prices
As usual, you’re just talking in juju words and making shit up.
Well, we should all just get ready for another 4 years of the Biden corpse planted in the Oval Office. According to the Democratic party activists, Biden has done so well on the economy that this is an open and shut case. No need to even have an election.
Mchael Mann, Teach’s nemesis was awarded 1 million dollars in a court settlement against 2 conservative bloggers.
That hockey stick? It was published in 2000. Since then the shaft has continued to lengthen as temps keep going up
Don’t you ever get tired of mouthing off and being full of shit?
Poor Johnny-National Review is asking for over 1 million in legal fees owed by Mann when 2 of his suits against them were thrown out in 2019.
Good luck to the National Review in their quixotic quest. The jury ordered the initial author of the CEI piece, Rand Simberg, to pay up as well.
Investigations into Dr Mann’s data yielded no fraud or misused data.
Publicly calling a scientist “fraudulent” and similar to a child molester is defaming, at least according to the courts. Neither Simberg nor Steyn took the time or went to the trouble to investigate the data.
The economy is important but NOTHING is as big a problem to America as the massive numbers of criminal invaders being imported for the explicit purpose of destroying American culture and society.
In September of 2016, my good friend Heather Long, then with CNN and now the economics editor for The Washington Post, wrote an article telling us how good the economy was, that unemployment was down to 5%, but that people just didn’t seem to believe it. The people she was interviewing, in Ohio, all guessed that unemployment was really around 9%, which happened to be very close to the U-6 unemployment rate.
Now we’re being told that wages are risking a bit faster than prices, but that leaves out two important facts:
The CPI includes things that people do not buy every week or every month, such as appliances, but when you look at the things the CPI excludes, because they are to ‘volatile’, primarily food and energy, food is rising faster than the official inflation rate, and workers’ paychecks. Gasoline prices are lower than the Bidenomics high, but still significantly higher than they were under President Trump.
While inflation has settled down somewhat now, the cumulative inflation from when the dummkopf from Delaware took office has still exceeded the rise in wages.
Good luck to the National Review in their quixotic quest. The jury ordered the initial author of the CEI piece, Rand Simberg, to pay up as well.
Investigations into Dr Mann’s data yielded no fraud or misused data.
Publicly calling a scientist “fraudulent” and similar to a child molester is defaming, at least according to the courts. Neither Simberg nor Steyn took the time or went to the trouble to investigate the data.
Mann is a grifter and charlatan and the “hockey stick” graph is total nonsense. Steyn was taken to the cleaners by a DC jury of frauds and true believers. I’d trade one Steyn for a thousand of you any day of the week.
Strong argument there, BroJo. I especially appreciated your nuanced take on the data that went into the temperature record over the past 2000 years.
I’d trade a thousand of you for one Cedar Waxwing any day of the week!
BTW, the Earth continues to warm just as Dr Mann described. The “hockey stick”, which was not named that by Dr Mann, has been verified by other researchers. Do you acknowledge that the Earth has been warming the past century plus?