{"id":457280,"date":"2026-05-19T21:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/457280\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:21:13","slug":"a-rising-share-of-americans-say-the-economy-is-getting-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/457280\/","title":{"rendered":"A rising share of Americans say the economy is getting worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"fa0ab\">Since the beginning of March, the share of Republicans who say the economy is getting worse has roughly doubled from 18% to 34%, a 16-point jump that far exceeds the 3-point jump among Democrats in the same time period. The share of MAGA Republicans saying the economy is getting worse has risen from 11% to 18% over that time. The share of non-MAGA Republicans has risen from 30% to 65%, a 36-point jump. (The sample size for Republicans who say they&#8217;re unsure if they are MAGA supporters is small, but negative views about the economy among this group also have risen sharply since the start of the year.)<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"f32vh\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net\/documents\/econTabReport_ONiR6Nb.pdf#page=55\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Last week<\/a>, 67% of Independents and 42% of non-MAGA Republicans said the economy is getting worse. Today, 67% of Independents and 65% of non-MAGA Republicans say this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the beginning of March, the share of Republicans who say the economy is getting worse has roughly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-457280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}