Most voters believe Trump will make them richer, but they trust Harris more on the economy: poll

Nypost ^ | 08/11/2024 | Ryan King

[ChicagoConservative27]

Talk about mixed signals.

In a new poll, voters said they believe they’d be in better financial shape under former President Donald Trump than Vice President Kamala Harris — by a nine-point margin.

But, at the same time, a slight majority said they more faith in the veep to shepherd the US economy.

About 42% of registered voters felt they’d be “much” or “somewhat” better off if Trump wins in November — while 33% said the same about Harris, according to a survey by the Financial Times and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.

Simultaneously, Harris narrowly eked out an advantage over Trump when it comes to trust on economic issues, 42% to 41%. It marks the first time the 45th president has been topped on the issue in the poll since tracking began about a year ago.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: economy; harris; lol; poll; polls; shehasjoy; trump; universitymichigan; voters

[ChicagoConservative27]

Talk about mixed signals? How about first class Stupid? This is what we're up against. 🙄🙄🙄🙄

[FlipWilson]

Isn’t it amazing how the second they need a poll to say something a poll appears?

[ClearCase_guy]

Why would anyone trust Harris on anything?
Why would anyone think Harris understands anything about the economy?
Why would anyone look at the last 4 years and say “Gimme more of that!”?

[Dr. Sivana]

About 42% of registered voters

Not "likely" voters. Worthless poll.

[EinNYC]

First class stupid, for sure, and on welfare, so they don’t worry about money so much.

[Libloather]

Double gas prices under Horizontal. That’ll show ‘em.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I think I might walk better if I had my legs amputated.

[Sarah Barracuda]

So basically they are morons..they know that Trump will put more money in their pocket but they dont care..thats what happens when you have a media 100 percent in the Dems pocket..they know most people are morons, which makes them sheep, they will baa baa baa all the way to the polls cause the media told them to

[God luvs America]

That’s ironic- just days ago CNBC had a poll which showed DJT had a HUGE advantage over horizontal harris on the economy:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4257136/posts

[enumerated]

Duh

[j.havenfarm]

I’ll pull out the old saw: Half of our fellow citizens are of below-average intelligence. Problem is, they’re convinced they’re the smartest and most virtuous guys in the room. And they vote

[cowboyusa]

Ny Times.🤣

[rrrod]

Unbelievable.

[stockpirate]

We call it gaslighting

[frank ballenger]

With all those gullible and ingenuous Dem supporters around I guess I picked the wrong week to give up being a con artist.

[faithhopecharity]

if any significant number of voters “trust Harris on the economy” then America is doomed by utter stupidity

[RasterMaster]

Fake polls for imaginary Kum-Allah supporters.

[Gaffer]

the number one question is to ask “who funds the poll?” period.

[Pox]

This is a perfect example of a poll that was manufactured to sway opinion.

I know there are many clueless here, but there is no way that this laughable result is valid.

I live in liberal land, and even they aren’t making any such absurd claim that Harris could handle the economy best.

[kenmcg]

We gave this country away thanks to Ted Kennedy for bringing millions of third worlders here. At least 50 % of Americans are illiterate voters. See what happened in South and zRhodesia. We are not far behind.