Trump claims prices are ‘coming down fast.’ Americans in 49 states aren’t buying it
There are still months to go before the 2026 midterm elections, but President Donald Trump will need to address some significant polling challenges before Americans cast their votes.
In every state except Oklahoma, more U.S. adults disapprove of how the Republican president is handling prices and the economy, according to an analysis by data journalist G. Elliott Morris.
And Trump shouldn't break out the party hats in the Sooner State either. He's only +1 on those issues in a state he won by 34 points over Democrat Kamala Harris in 2024, Morris observed.
All told, Trump's overall approval rating is underwater in 39 states and, as the Oklahoma problem shows, his inflation numbers are negative in 49 states, based on Morris' analysis of 2025 polling data.
"Outside of Oklahoma, there is no place in the country where voters, on net, approve of his handling of prices. Even Wyoming," Morris wrote.
And Trump's "-16 national net approval is a landslide electoral defeat," on the order of Democrat Walter Mondale's blowout at the hands of President Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential election, Morris wrote.
With 11 months to go before the midterms, where Democrats are looking to retake control of the majority-Republican U.S. House and erode GOP margins in the Senate, some major issues already are clear.
Trump's overall approval rating isn't only weak in Democratic-leaning states, it's also "underwater across many Republican-leaning states," Morris observed. "That includes much of the Midwest and Sun Belt battlegrounds, and also some of the Plains and Southern states we typically think of as 'red.'"
And the president isn't only struggling because of "Democratic #Resistance; lots of independents and Republicans disapprove of how he's running the country, too. In fact, the decline from Trump's vote margin in 2024 is steeper in redder parts of the country," Morris wrote.
A Harris poll released Monday reinforced those challenges, with 45% of respondents saying their financial situation had eroded. Compounding the problem, 57% of Americans said the U.S. economy is undergoing a recession, even though it technically is not in recession right now.
Trump has tried to allay those concerns, protesting that "under our leadership, [prices] are all coming down – and they're coming down fast," The Guardian reported.
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