More Trump voters say he is more responsible than Biden for economy: Survey
Voters who supported President Trump in the 2024 presidential election are more likely to hold him accountable for the current state of the economy than the previous administration, according to a new survey.
The latest poll from the Wall Street Journal/YouGov, shows 46 percent of Trump voters crediting the current president with the state of the economy, while 34 percent placed responsibility on former President Biden. Another 13 percent say they’re not sure, and 8 percent did not pick a side.
Meanwhile, 75 percent of former Vice President Harris’s 2024 supporters say Trump is responsible for the current economy and 14 percent say Biden is responsible. Just 6 percent are not sure, and another 6 percent say neither are accountable, according to the survey.
Overall, 55 percent of Americans give Trump credit, while 23 percent give Biden credit, the results show.
The poll comes as the economy has seen a strong uptick in the financial markets, even as businesses face lingering uncertainty over the fate of Trump’s tariffs. At the same time, private-sector employment saw the first monthly decline in more than two years in June, according to an ADP National Employment Report released Wednesday.
In an earlier survey from The Economist/YouGov, conducted in early May, Trump voters were more likely to credit Biden with the economy — 55 percent — than they were to credit the president — at 32 percent.
Harris voters, meanwhile, were even more likely to say Trump was responsible for the state of the economy than they are now — at 81 percent — compared to the 9 percent who said at the time that the former president was responsible.
Overall, slightly fewer Americans — at 51 percent — held Trump responsible for the economy, while 28 percent said Biden was responsible in the previous poll.
The May poll came a month after Trump announced sweeping tariffs that sent the stock market tumbling. In a post on Truth Social in late April, Trump wrote, “This is Biden’s stock market, not Trump’s.”
Survey respondents were asked in both polls whether they agree with that statement — but were not told that Trump said it.
In the previous poll, 41 percent of Trump voters said they agreed with the statement, while 36 percent disagreed.
In the latest survey, as the stock market hits record highs, 46 percent of the president’s supporters say they disagree with the statement and 29 percent said the opposite. Another 26 percent are not sure.
The Wall Street Journal/YouGov survey was conducted on June 17-20 and included 1,034 U.S. adults. It has a margin of error of 4.2 percentage points.