rump's approval slumps with low earners, rises with rich

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Oct 10, 2025 at 05:00 AM EDT
By Martha McHardy
US News Reporter

... Trump made significant gains with low-income voters, a historically Democratic-leaning group, in the 2024 election. Exit polling from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research shows that in the 2020 election, Trump struggled with lower-income voters, winning just 44 percent of those earning under $50,000 a year compared with 55 percent for ex-President Joe Biden. By 2024, however, he had managed to close much of that gap, taking around 50 percent of lower-income voters.

Yet new polling suggests that those gains may now be reversing. According to new YouGov/Economist polling conducted from October 4 to October 6, Trump’s approval rating among the lowest-income voters has fallen sharply in recent weeks. In September, 40 percent of voters earning under $50,000 a year approved of his performance while 55 percent disapproved—a net rating of -15. By October, approval had dropped to 35 percent and disapproval had risen to 59 percent, widening his deficit to -24 points.

At the same time, Trump’s standing has improved among the highest-income Americans. Among those earning more than $100,000, his approval rating rose from 43 percent in September to 47 percent in October, while disapproval fell from 56 percent to 51 percent — cutting his deficit from -13 points to -4 points.

While wealthier voters have long been a core part of the Republican base, drawn to the party's promises of tax cuts and deregulation, Trump made much smaller gains with the richest Americans in 2024. In 2020, Trump’s backing among voters earning more than $100,000 was below 50 percent, but by 2024, he had expanded that share to around 51-52 percent ...

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trumps-approval-ratings-slump-with-low-earners-rise-with-the-rich-10846479

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1. Class War (Noam Chomsky speech at MIT, 1996)

Feb 6, 2011

... This speech was recorded live at MIT back in 1996. These aren't sound bites, they are documented truths expressed in honest language. By the way, Chomsky isn't in any way calling for 'class war' here, he is just describing the reality what has been going on for several decades now.

... human rights have always been subordinate to business rights in the USA. But things have gotten outrageously worse in modern times. The U.S. is advocating a corporate tyranny far surpassing any level of totalitarianism found in the rest of the developed world. And it really started with outright criminal behavior under the "great" Ronald Reagan ...

Perhaps the most frightening thing about this speech is ... the organized campaign to blame everything on the government- even when big business is really in control. They want the people to hate and fear the government, because democratic government has a dangerous flaw- it actually has the slight chance of becoming truly democratic ...

... The government is the only thing the average citizen has the potential to control. Therefore the average citizen must be taught to hate, fear, or simply dismiss organized political action. What you get is "anti-politics" where people are totally atomized, fearful and hateful of nearly everything- and totally blind to the real problems.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. If his numbers with low income voters are bad now, Just wait until next year

They will have lost their healthcare/premiums doubled, and the economy will be in recession.

[Justice Brandeis]

3. There's a lot more poor and near-poor people in this country than upper-middle class and wealthy.

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[Blues Heron]

4. They are woking up but too slowly.

[fujiyamasan]

5. I don't put much stock in "trends" over one or two months

But in this case my guess is you would see a rough correlation between the stock market’s rise and the approval bump among higher earners and/or those with more assets.

I’d be curious to see this extended back to April, especially Trump’s so called “liberation day” dump and the pump after (all totally manipulated of course).

The reality is the market has ripped over the last few months, but we know that one tweet (like on Friday) can either take it new highs, or drop it by 5-10%.

Those with less money obviously have less invested, so the stock market doesn’t mean as much directly.