Roughly half of Americans are struggling to remain where they are financially, according to a new nationwide survey published by Monmouth University’s Polling Institute.
The poll found 46% of respondents complaining they were having difficulty maintaining financial stability, while 45% of respondents said they were “basically stable” in their financial situation and a mere 9% boasted their financial situation is improving. The 46% of respondents expressing problems maintaining their financial stability represented a continued increase of monetary stress during the Biden era – in Monmouth’s polls conducted between 2022 and 2023, that share ranged between 37% and 44%, compared to a 20% to 29% range during the Trump era of 2017 to 2021.
“The overwhelming narrative is that a large segment of the American public feels it is financially behind the eight ball,” said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. “It is true that voters who feel more comfortable with their economic situation are likely to support Biden. But despite continued Democratic efforts to tout rosy economic indicators, the tactic of telling financially pessimistic voters they should feel differently does not appear to be working.”
Among the biggest concerns facing the survey’s respondents, the greatest issues cited were inflation (24%), the economy (14%), everyday household bills (11%) and housing costs (5%). The lowest level of concern involved college costs, climate change and abortion – those issues generated 2% shares each.
“Even with a declining inflation rate, prices continue to be much higher than they were four years ago,” added Murray. “That’s the metric that has really mattered to many Americans over the past two years. Economic concerns may not be the top motivating factor for all voters, but it defines the contours of this year’s election.”
As for the election, the survey’s respondents ranked Trump (33%) as being more cognizant of the economic well-being of average Americans compared to Biden (28%), nearly half of respondents believed neither man was really concerned about this situation. The survey’s respondents were also skeptical about Congress’ response to economic concerns.
“There isn’t a lot of variation in these results, but it is interesting to note that the small differences seem to favor Trump at the presidential level and Democrats at the congressional level,” said Murray.
The survey was conducted from June 6-10, with a probability-based national random sample of 1,106 adults.
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If you are among the 50 million who actually voted for Biden, screw you. Socialism sucks.
I never in a million years would have voted for Biden.
4 years later, I have to admit that it has been much worse than what I anticipated.
Trump needs to get back in office and clean up the socialism mess that we are in.
Trump was THE socialist, with all his $600 checks. He had to print money to do all that. Plus all the “free” COVID testing, and the “free” COVID tests. In his one term, Trump printed MORE money than Obama did in two !!!!! We haven’t had a fiscally conservative president since Clinton. So this is not a pick on Trump reply. It all started with 9/11, and the government has been on a drunk spending spree since. Economically, Ben Laden won.
Bidenomics. Stolen elections have consequences.
Biden has attacked every business in sight. He particularly hates business owners who are the drivers of our economy and his staff and the DOJ have done more damage to the American business owners and our economy than any president in history. Get out of the way and allow business owners to operate without interference! He pumped so much money into our economy and devalued our dollar to the point it is not even feasible to take a family out to a sit down dinner at an affordable price anymore. He should be ashamed at what he has done to the American people. The only answer to this chaos is to get to the polls in November and vote him out! It cannot happen soon enough.
Biden might be terrible at being leader, but he is probably the best thief in history. Give the man credit where credit is due. His family has gotten filthy rich from stealing and kickbacks and bribes, that no matter how bad he screws up the economy or the world, his family will be well insulated from the mess. Good job Mr. Teleprompter! And besides that, the stealing schemes are so good, his colleagues and friends have gotten rich too. This is why he must steal another election; if he goes, so does the puppet masters Clinton and Obama. There is just too much more stealing to be done, we can’t stop now. Fifty billion to Ukraine means ten billion for Biden and his cronies, ten billion for Zelinski and his cronies, ten billion for Putin, and twenty billion for the arms dealers. Too bad we all have to pay for it, but come on man.
The fact that someone posted, “Trump was THE socialist, with all his $600 checks. He had to print money to do all that. Plus all the “free” COVID testing, and the “free” COVID tests. In his one term, Trump printed MORE money than Obama did in two !!!!! We haven’t had a fiscally conservative president since Clinton. So this is not a pick on Trump reply. It all started with 9/11, and the government has been on a drunk spending spree since. Economically, Ben Laden won.” shows how effective the grooming has been. This person is either a Democrat staffer or named Karen. Maybe both.
How can anyone believe an established a liar as trump is. He made huge tax breaks for the top income earners in this country and promises more in the future. Thanks to these tax breaks the economy has been and continues to face current economic repercussions. He has a family history of practicing segregation, has evaded paying responsible contractors all his life, has made it clear the he is misogynistic, uses foul language repetitively, makes fun of disabled people, has no regard for veterans and gold star families and calls them “Losers”, is totally secular as is evidenced by his actions and words, is an extremely poor influence on our children, instigated an attack on the US Capitol, responsible for several deaths due to those actions, violated our constitution and his office as President on Jan 06, 2021 under the guise of a stolen election and did nothing to stop the insurrection, is now found guilty of 34 felony counts, faces more felony trials, the list goes on and on and on!!!
Joe Biden has his faults as we all do, but he is on the side of the Constitution and the people of this country and is a human that cares for his fellow Americans and others in this crazy world we currently live in. He is the President for everyone not just the folks that are caught up in Tribalism and me, me, me.
Absolutely correct