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Cybersecurity Bills Update00:15:19
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Is it an apples-to-apples comparison to talk about Trump's second term versus other two-term presidents because he had that four-year break between his first and second term?
They're worried about taking kids to summer sports.
They're worried about their health.
They're worried about being safe, et cetera, et cetera, with those more meat and potato issues.
So it is still distant.
But when we present them the details of the bill, that is the specific benefits, potential benefits of the bill, Americans tend to be more in favor of it than not.
We ask a general ballot question, like in general, are you in favor of this bill?
We don't put a lot of specifics there.
We make sure it's somewhat vague.
And then we go into the details of the bill.
Now, what we pull out or pins out is a judgment call.
We try to get those things we think will create consensus.
Those are the things that will be more controversial.
And we lay it out and we ask the specifics.
So typically what we'll do is we'll ask a general question about the ballot that is abstract, more conceptual in nature, and then we'll ask the specifics.
About a third of the population, especially Republicans, are very much in favor of the administration's actions.
Democrats aren't.
Like I said, it's very partisan.
There's a lot of queuing, right?
If you like Trump, you're probably in favor of the bill.
If you don't like Trump, you're probably not in favor of the bill.
I think more fundamentally, though, what we find is a huge age differentiation.
What we're finding, not just with Iran, but also with Gaza as well as the Ukraine across the board, foreign policy in general, young Americans are less in favor of a more muscular policy.
They're much different than baby boomers.
They're much different than gen Xers like myself.
And that's a general trend we're finding independent of partisanship, and it manifests itself as well on the Iranian airstrikes.
Are those young people today going to be the older people of tomorrow who are a bit more okay with interventionalism than the young people of tomorrow will be against it?
What have you found over time?
Or is that something unique to this time that we are in?
Yeah, basically, as you get older, you get more conservative.
You get more cratchy like me.
I become more cratchy over time.
No, actually, what's interesting is that when we compare younger people, let's say, to the Vietnam generation or to the Iraq 1 generation or the Iraq 2 generation, younger people today are definitively less interventionist in nature.
The question would be why, and there's a variety of factors, one of which I believe are the forever wars, the fact that Americans, young Americans, feel like the government has lied to them over time.
And this is something we believe that is a significant generational difference that will shape America looking forward into the future.
Americans are concerned about bread and butter issues for the most part.
There is a partisan break there.
Basically, Democrats are more in favor of Ukraine, intervention, let's say more specifically, than are Republicans.
But it's one of those things that I believe is just a tertiary issue, really, relative to all the more fundamental issues like the economy, like political extremism, and like immigration.
And we can get to some of those other issues as well.
Let me bring in some calls, though.
We'll head first to the city of Tucson in Arizona.
This is Carolyn, Line for Democrats.
You are on with Cliff Young.
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Yes, those were fascinating points to me because I am a relic.
And so my political beliefs kind of stem from a humanitarian viewpoint.
And my observation of government is similar to the youth in that I definitely feel we're manipulated.
I'm disappointed, in fact, that in journalism, there's not one area, one, we have no venue where someone, for example, will take Project 2025 and read it, however boring, and speak of what that is, because I feel that war has become very transactional,
probably always has been transactional.
But what the media used to do was inspire, I wouldn't say patriotism, but an emotional, a visceral response which indicated the trend, the heart of your nation.
I think I don't trust any per se, and that I would feel better if when the big beautiful bill arrives, someone would attempt to read the whole thing publicly, take 15 minutes of a broadcast.
So, Carolyn, they did read most of that bill publicly on the floor of the Senate.
Chuck Schumer, forcing Republicans.
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I did.
I did watch that, yes.
And that's very important, but that's not generally I'm talking broadcast news, not public information, because that will become more and more limited via Project 2025.
And it's unfortunate because most people don't pursue, don't have the time for that matter.
So, through that lens, how would you view Donald Trump reaching out to his MAGA base via True Social over the weekend saying it's time to move past the Epstein case and how much consternation this case continues to cause?
Yeah, and the context is a broadband belief that the system is broken.
And again, I don't think in the grand scheme of things it will weigh so heavily from a voting or public opinion standpoint.
But there is noise in the system today because the principal champion, President Trump, had been touting for a long time that he would fix the broken system.
And this seems to be contrary to that point.
Again, the context is such that these sorts of things are not easy for someone in a place like Donald Trump.
Will Donald Trump, if he goes through with them on August 1st with a slew of new tariffs, are those tariffs supported by that same base and that same 45% that is approving his job right now?
Yeah, first I would say the tariffs in general are a risk, right?
Americans see them as inflationary in nature.
They're worried about making ends meet.
We just came off a very difficult inflationary moment that we know, obviously, things have gotten better over the last little bit, the last few months, but that definitely is the fear of Americans.
But his base has supported them throughout.
You know, they understand, or at least their perception is, yes, there might be problems in the short term, but there are long-term benefits, like bringing jobs back to America.
And they've held steady and with steady support for him and his tariff regime.
I would say anywhere from 65% plus, depending on how you ask the question.
And that in part, in large part, is why he is where he is with his approval ratings.
When you do surveys on their household purchase behavior, they're very discerning, obviously.
They know where every nickel and dime goes in terms of their expenditures.
But what we wanted to get at overall was, do Americans perceive tariffs as inflationary?
And the simple answer is yes, they do.
And in part, the sort of trepidation, unease we see in the polls in general, not in the approval ratings, but in relative optimism, in consumer confidence as examples.
They're more negative right now.
Americans are more pessimistic.
It's partially a function of this worry about future inflationary pressures.
Let me just come back and I'll let Cliff Young jump in on this, but let me come back to that slide that I showed on Americans and how they feel about the one big beautiful bill.