{"id":309872,"date":"2026-02-25T18:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/309872\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T18:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:04:14","slug":"cnn-poll-finds-trumps-state-of-the-union-left-some-viewers-unconvinced-that-hell-lower-cost-of-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/309872\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN poll finds Trump\u2019s State of the Union left some viewers unconvinced that he\u2019ll lower cost of living"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n President Donald Trump\u2019s State of the Union address<\/a> drew largely positive marks from a heavily Republican audience, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n But it didn\u2019t fully convince significant shares of even that friendly audience that he\u2019s focusing on the nation\u2019s most important problems or that he\u2019ll lower the cost of living.\n <\/p>\n

\n Nearly two-thirds of speech-watchers said they had at least a somewhat positive reaction to Trump\u2019s speech, with a smaller 38% offering a very positive response. That\u2019s a few points cooler than the reception<\/a> to his address to Congress last year and falls below the ratings for his first-term speeches in CNN polling. It\u2019s similar to the ratings that former President Joe Biden saw during his last year in office.\n <\/p>\n

\n Good marks from speech-watchers are typical for presidential addresses to Congress, which tend to attract generally friendly audiences that disproportionately align with presidents\u2019 own parties. In CNN\u2019s speech reaction polls, which have been conducted most years dating back to the Clinton era, audience reactions have always been positive.\n <\/p>\n

\n The pool of people who watched Trump speak on Tuesday was about 13 percentage points more Republican than the general public.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump\u2019s speech seemed to rally some who watched it. In a survey conducted prior to the speech, 54% said they believed his policies would move the country in the right direction; afterward, 64% of the same people said his policies would take the country down the right path. The share who believed Trump has had the right priorities stood at 44% prior to the speech and 54% immediately following its conclusion.\n <\/p>\n

\n In the pre-speech survey, a majority of viewers said they most wanted to hear Trump talk about the economy and the cost of living. But nearly half of the audience, 45%, said that, based on Trump\u2019s speech \u2013 which set a record<\/a> for the longest State of the Union address \u2013 he was focusing too little on the issue, with 53% saying he\u2019d given the issue the right amount of focus.\n <\/p>\n

\n Speech-watchers were about evenly split on whether Trump\u2019s handling of tariffs was an appropriate use of power, or whether it represented an overstep on his part. And just 31% expressed a lot of confidence in the president to make the cost of living more affordable, with 29% saying they had some confidence in him to do so and 40% that they had none at all.\n <\/p>\n

\n Following the address, 62% of speech-watchers said both that Trump\u2019s economic policies and his immigration policies would move the country in the right direction.\n <\/p>\n

\n While the economic numbers are identical to his ratings after last year\u2019s speech, Trump\u2019s numbers on immigration represent an erosion to first-term levels, when the issue stood as one of his most significant political liabilities. The minority of speech-watchers who were dissatisfied with his level of focus on immigration were more likely to say he\u2019d paid the issue too much attention (38%), not too little (6%).\n <\/p>\n

\n Forty-five percent of speech-watchers said they had a lot of confidence in Trump to provide real leadership for the country, and 43% expressed a lot of confidence in him to use US military power responsibly, with 38% saying they were highly confident in him to make the right decisions about Iran.\n <\/p>\n

\n While State of the Union addresses have long been seen as a chance for the president to shift public perception of his efforts, history suggests that the speech is unlikely to have much effect on Trump\u2019s standing with Americans. Annual presidential addresses rarely lead to significant shifts in presidential approval among the broader US public, particularly in recent years.\n <\/p>\n

\n In a CNN poll of the American public<\/a> conducted in the days prior to the address, Trump\u2019s approval rating stood at 36%.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump\u2019s State of the Union address drew largely positive marks from a heavily Republican audience, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-309872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}