{"id":3824,"date":"2026-07-23T21:07:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2026-07-23T21:07:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:07:02","slug":"disillusioned-north-carolina-trump-voters-grumble-over-angst-spawned-by-his-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3824","title":{"rendered":"‘Disillusioned’ North Carolina Trump voters grumble over ‘angst’ spawned by his policies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Thursday, MSNOW aired a segment in which North Carolina voters expressed their \u201cangst\u201d over the war with Iran and its resulting economic consequences. According to one self-proclaimed supporter of President Donald Trump, she hails from an entire family of Trump voters who have been \u201cdisillusioned\u201d by his performance. <\/p>\n

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The segment aired during a panel on the war, in which journalist Molly Jong-Fast noted, \u201cPolitico had a poll<\/u> that came out yesterday, and it showed that 1 in 5 self-identified MAGA voters wants this war over today.\u201d Here host Antonia Hylton suggested that Trump has attempted to \u201crhetorically work his way out of accountability on this,\u201d raising his recent claim that while \u201cvoters are stressed about gas prices,\u201d \u201cthey’re not unsupportive of the war.\u201d But in the North Carolina voters interviewed by MSNOW contradicted the president\u2019s assertion. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy opinion on the war,\u201d said one woman: \u201cIt’s an unnecessary war that should never have taken place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked whether the war\u2019s growing $37.5 billion cost could have been better spent elsewhere, another respondent declared, \u201cRoads, schools, lower prices, anything but this.\u201d<\/p>\n

And one noticeably upset woman delivered a response indicative of MAGA\u2019s rising frustration at the situation. Asked if the war had helped her life at all, she shook her head and said, \u201cNo. For one thing, it causes me angst. Makes me angry. I’m very disillusioned. My entire family is disillusioned. And we are and were Trump supporters.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Republican strategist Susan del Percio wasn\u2019t surprised by this reaction. As she explained, with previous \u201cforever wars,\u201d the American public was at least sold on why it was happening in the first place. But in the case of Iran, \u201cWe entered this war for no reason that Trump can properly explain.\u201d What\u2019s more, \u201cWhen we look at gas prices[,] they went up, they went up, went up, they ticked down. We never see gas prices go up, go up, tick down and then tick back up so quickly, which tells the American public that this war is directly in correlation.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Jong-Fast noted, new polling shows that just a third of self-proclaimed MAGA voters think the war is worth the economic costs, which is a steep 13-point drop since May, when Trump had the support of more than half of MAGA. Hot on its heels was another poll by Fox News, which revealed such disastrous numbers for the president that one leading political reporter called it the \u201cend days for GOP<\/u>.\u201d <\/p>\n

According to Fox, \u201cIf the election were today, 53 percent of voters would back the Democratic candidate in their House district and 46 percent the Republican. That 7-point edge is just outside the poll\u2019s margin of error. Democrats were up by 5 points in April. Notably, 53 percent is the highest percentage either party has received on the generic House ballot in Fox News polling since 1996.” What\u2019s more, the poll found that \u201cTrump<\/u>\u2019s job approval remains near a record low<\/u>, more Democrats are motivated to vote, Republicans join Democrats and independents in rating the economy negatively<\/u>, and 4 in 10 voters want \u2018dramatic\u2019 or \u2018revolutionary\u2019 change.\u201d<\/p>\n

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