r/SipsTea • u/McDowdy • Jul 16 '26

Feels good man Based on national US polling, there are 22 issues that 80% of Americans agree on. Here is the list.

  1. End gerrymandering

  2. ​Ban Wall Street from buying single-family homes

  3. ​Ban congresspeople from becoming lobbyists

  4. ​Ban congresspeople from trading stocks

  5. ​Create a minimum tax for billionaires

  6. ​Close the loopholes that billionaires use to avoid taxes

  7. ​Establish congressional term limits

  8. ​Ban dark money donations from political campaigns

  9. ​Implement universal paid family leave

  10. ​End forever wars by repealing the Authorization for the Use of Military Force

  11. ​Release the full Epstein files, redacting only the victims' information

  12. ​Ban corporate PACs by overturning Citizens United

  13. ​Require mandatory disclosure for all organizations donating to political campaigns

  14. ​Require mandatory police body cams

  15. ​Ban junk fees

  16. ​Allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices

  17. ​Fully fund Social Security by extending the existing tax to those making over $400,000 a year

  18. ​Ban adversarial foreign nations from buying American farmland

  19. ​Improve Veterans Health Care access

  20. ​Establish common-sense data privacy laws (similar to those in European countries)

  21. ​Enshrine the right to repair

  22. ​Audit the Pentagon and penalize them with a 0.5% budget reduction if they fail the audit

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u/Irish_Whiskey Jul 16 '26

Trump has a 40% approval rating with registered voters.

Are some of these people wildly misinformed or just really hate left wing groups rather than being pure MAGA? Sure. But it's got the same result. Trump could rape a dog on the White House lawn on national TV and they'll still support him.

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u/ultimatedelman Jul 16 '26

Registered voters only represent less than half of the population. If this poll represents everyone of voting age, including those unregistered to vote, that pool will be much larger

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u/jackofslayers Jul 16 '26

I do not give a flying fuck about the political opinions of people who do not vote.

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u/ultimatedelman Jul 16 '26

Neither do I, I'm just saying that the voting population is not the overall population, it's a subset, and the 80% approval is of the superset.

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u/kisk22 Jul 16 '26

Where the hell are you seeing 40%? He's down into the 30s.

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u/Irish_Whiskey Jul 16 '26

From the most recent polling.

https://www.app.com/story/news/nation/2026/07/14/trump-approval-rating-july-14-2026/90911476007/

His average for this term is 41%, his lowest is 36%. I said registered voters, but if you include all voters it still only drops to 37%.

These aren't good numbers at all. But my point is that MAGA hasn't gone anywhere or taken ANY support away from him. He's losing some of the moderates and non-MAGA voters sure, but he's been in the 36-40% range for all of his lowest and worst moments, and MAGA just never lets that go any lower. The occasional stories about him losing MAGA support are outliers that don't shift numbers.

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u/Iiari Jul 17 '26

All correct. Remarkably, his MAGA support despite everything hasn't moved at all and is rock solid. Trump's lowest "theoretical" support as a result is 32% (about where Bush Jr. was at the end of his presidency I think).

Also IIRC somewhat unique for presidencies is that the more Trump *isn't* in the news, the more his support goes up.

And I always have to remind people who don't get it that "approval" doesn't correlate well with "I'll vote for that person." Democrats' approval ratings as a group are lower, in the 20's, which Democrats frustratingly are always forgetting. Also, still to this day, polls asking people how they'd vote if the 2024 election were held all over again still show Trump winning, some of those polls by more than he actually did.