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A new Siena College poll has some pretty amazing findings and good news for Donald Trump. It shows that more voters believe Trump's policies helped them personally than did Biden's policies. Here is what it looks like:
A shocking 40% of voters think that Trump's policies helped them personally. Only 18% of voters said that Biden's policies help them personally. This cuts across all demographic groups.
This shows that voters have little to no understanding of economics. What many voters mean is that the economy treated them better under Trump (until COVID-19 hit) than under Biden. Trump didn't cause the good economy due to his policies though. He simply inherited a good economy from Barack Obama. Biden was hit with the aftermath of the pandemic, namely high inflation. It was not his policies that caused inflation. It was disturbances to supply chains and logistics that happened on Trump's watch and about which he couldn't do anything that caused the inflation. But voters don't understand that presidents don't really have much effect on the economy.
Also, some respondents confused "policies that helped me personally" with "policies I like." For example, some of them cited Trump's plan to build a wall on the Mexican border as a plus for Trump. Of course, very few people benefited personally from the plan, which was never executed anyway. Still, Biden has to deal with perception, not reality. That's the way it goes in politics. (V)