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No single electoral bloc was as essential to President Donald Trump\u2019s victories in 2016 and 2024 as white, non-college-educated voters. As he famously declared<\/u> during his first primaries, \u201cI love the poorly educated,\u201d who were backing him in big numbers. But now, according to the latest polls, Trump\u2019s approval among such voters has plummeted in recent months, and for the first time he is disliked by the majority of those without whom he would not be in office.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe swing is stark,\u201d reports the Washington Post<\/u>. \u201c54 percent of White voters without a college degree disapproved of Trump\u2019s performance in a CBS News poll this month, up from 32 percent in February 2025 and 45 percent in February of this year.It\u2019s a sobering sign for Republicans heading into the midterms and working to turn out the voters who carried Trump to victory in 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to former Trump supporters who spoke with the Post, they\u2019re bailing on him over the floundering economy and skyrocketing cost of living. For example, the paper met with Ohio factory workers who were discussing strategies for stretching their already thin budgets. While one argued that Trump would bring costs back down, another was not so sure. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou could be paying these prices for a while,\u201d said 64-year-old Trump voter Annette Dombrowksi. According to Dombrowski, the Post explains, \u201cshe believed Trump when he promised during his last campaign to lower prices.She watched excitedly alongside her boyfriend last year as Trump signed one executive order after another. But now her bills for gas, groceries and other necessitieshave gone up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t even want to vote for anybody in the next election,\u201d she said, noting that she normally votes in midterms. \u201cI don\u2019t care, because they\u2019re all crap.\u201d <\/p>\n

White non-college educated voters still approve of Trump\u2019s approach to immigration, though the margin has shrunk. They disapprove of his handling of the economy by 22 points, and they are negative overall. <\/p>\n

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According to Austin Keyser, a leader with an electrical workers’ union, union members have been expressing regret at voting for Trump, frustrated by rising prices and the president\u2019s focus on Iran. And as welder and three-time Trump voter Peggy Liff reminisced, before Trump\u2019s second term, \u201cprices were down\u201d and \u201cgas was low,\u201d but now, \u201che\u2019s concentrating on other things, like overseas, Iran. He says he\u2019s doing it for us, but I don\u2019t see where that\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s tumbling approval with working-class voters comes at a time when consumer sentiment has hit all-time<\/u><\/span> lows<\/u> and gas prices remain high, a situation that experts warn could persist for months to come, even if the war ends. <\/p>\n

In the meantime, voters like Dombrowski have lost faith in politics, saying politicians \u201cwant your money and give you fake promises.\u201d <\/p>\n

The factory where she works represents an example of such broken promises.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe musical instrument company where she works, Conn Selmer, is shifting jobs overseas \u2014 even though the owner, Trump donor John Paulson, has echoed the president\u2019s calls to keep manufacturing in the United States,\u201d reports the Post. \u201cNow their factory in northern Ohio is closing, despite employees\u2019 pleas \u2014 and Dombrowski, at 64, needs a new job.\u201d<\/p>\n

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