American voters are growing increasingly dissatisfied with President Donald Trump’s continuing war with Iran and the stubbornly high cost of living across the United States, a new Daily Mail/JL Partners poll shows.
The latest survey points to mounting frustration with Trump during his second term, a troubling sign for Republicans with the midterm elections now just two months away.
Perhaps most strikingly, the discontent is no longer confined to Trump’s critics. It has begun to reach into his most loyal support base, exposing cracks among MAGA voters once seen as virtually unshakable.
According to the exclusive poll, more than four in ten Trump voters who supported him in the 2024 election say the president is not doing enough to tackle inflation or ease the US cost of living crisis.
Rising household costs have been driven in part by the Iran war, along with Trump’s sweeping tariff push, both of which have added pressure to an already strained economy.
This week, the US military released dramatic new video showing a fierce bombardment of Iran’s coast, while Trump called on the country’s citizens to “rise up and fight.”
For now, there is little indication that a peace deal is close.
“I’m not trying to force Iran to the bargaining table, as ABC Fake News reported,” Trump wrote Tuesday on Truth Social. “I couldn’t care less if they sign a worthless, to them, agreement.”
In the military footage, the US can be seen striking Iranian targets across a 300-mile stretch of coastline in the Strait of Hormuz, as Trump boasted that Tehran’s economy was collapsing.
‘I like our position now much better, with almost total control of the Hormuz Strait, and their economy totally collapsing,’ Trump continued. ‘They are just playing out the inevitable.’
But voters aren’t happy with the length of the conflict, that’s stretched into its seventh month.
Nearly half of US voters, or 49 percent, said they believe Trump was wrong to launch military action in Iran earlier this year.
Donald Trump called on the Iranian people to ‘rise up’ against the Islamic regime
US cruise missiles are launched at Iranian military targets along the Strait of Hormuz
While Iran has continued to harass civilian oil tankers, roughly 50,000 US troops have been deployed across the region to enforce Trump’s naval blockade and squeeze the regime back to the negotiating table
The poll also found that Americans continue to hold dismal views of the war with Iran.
Just 25 percent of voters said they believe the US is ‘winning’ the war, according to Our News Outlet/JL Partners survey.
Support was split among party lines, however – with 52 percent of Republicans saying they believe the US is winning the war, compared to just 11 percent of Democrats and 13 percent of independent voters.
A total of 42 percent of voters – more than four in ten – said they believe Trump is ‘most responsible’ for the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
A much smaller 17 percent of voters blamed the Iranian government, while 9 percent blamed former US administrations.
Most shockingly, Americans said they would rather fork over more money for gas than send extra American troops to Iran
An eye-popping 46 percent of US voters said they would rather pay $5 per gallon gas prices than send more troops to Iran, compared to just 22 percent who said the opposite.
Among just Republicans, the split was nearly even – 38 percent preferred the higher gas costs, while 39 percent preferred sending more troops to Iran.
Average US gas prices remain elevated at more than $4 a gallon amid higher costs of crude oil due to the war and instability in the Strait of Hormuz.
Gas prices in August also shattered records, with averages surpassing $4 a gallon every day for the first time ever, according to AAA.
The high cost of living continues to be another major issue contributing to the drop off in approval rates.
Consumer prices have been creeping up over the last few months, leaving Americans stuck with stubbornly high inflation that has pushed up the cost of everything from groceries to home loans.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that consumer prices rose by 0.1 percent in July month over month, putting the annual CPI inflation rate at 3.4 percent, down a hair from the 3.5 percent figure in June.
The Daily Mail/JL Partners survey polled a nationally representative sample of more than one thousand registered US voters between the dates of August 28 and August 31, with a 3.1 percent margin of error.
