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Political capital moves like a commodity inventory: quiet drawdowns are invisible until a threshold clears and the repricing is sudden. Republican strategists are now staring at that cleared threshold.
A Quinnipiac poll last week placed Trump's approval at a personal all-time low of 32%, and 68% of voters in the same survey said he is not focused enough on the problems most Americans face.
Where the attention is going New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman told her colleague Ezra Klein that roughly 70% of Trump's mindshare goes to monument and renovation projects.
A Trump insider speaking to Axios put it plainly: Trump concentrates on "hobbies that distract from his terrible polling numbers, about which he is in denial." The same source noted that the war, tariffs, and monument fixation are demoralizing the party's base.
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