Political Lessons From President George W. Bush (Part IV)

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Briefly, I believe that it is important for a Republican president to avoid the second-term political collapse that happened to President Bush and that, to do so, a Republican president, e.g., Donald Trump, needs to follow a bifurcated strategy to keep his polling support up among both the GOP party base and with independents.
45% : Based on this, I believe Donald Trump should push to maximize his support among true independents by prioritizing a good economy and a reduction in the chaos.
44% : Once again, I - and others - find it suspicious that some polls on the average - Reuters, NBC, Quinnipiac, CNN, Atlas, and Marist - have Trump down by a considerable amount, while others - Rasmussen, RMG, Emerson, Trafalgar, CBS, TIPP, and Harris - have him up, sometimes substantially.
35% : Lots of political observers will also focus on the specific issue numbers for the Trump administration.
23% : In the 2024 election, independents - both true independents and independents who were party leaners - voted 48 to 42 percent for Kamala Harris over Donald Trump, a big drop from the 15-point margin Joe Biden had won them by in 2020.
15% : Based on this number, Donald Trump is far from being in the polling zone of danger.
14% : The more prominent issue areas include: Of course, President Trump has one major advantage that President Bush did not have in the aughts.
7% : As I explained during the 2024 election, these true independents didn't much care for Donald Trump as a person - they didn't like his "mean tweets" - but they also had a major problem with Joe Biden's presidential record, which they felt (correctly) was far worse than Trump's first term record.

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