Trump Has (the) Issues

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : She's down 9 points to Trump on handling the economy, about the same as Biden.
54% : Harris leads Trump 56 percent to 26 percent on being "in good enough physical health to serve as president," 46 percent to 37 percent on having "the mental sharpness it takes to serve as president," 41 percent to 26 percent on being "honest and trustworthy," and the killer, she leads 40 percent to 33 percent on "understands the problems of people like you.
50% : On his best issues -- the economy and immigration -- Trump is at 46 percent in a poll in which he is getting 45 percent of the popular vote.
46% : The former president is winning on the issues because those are the issues that matter most to Republicans and Republicans are overwhelmingly supporting Trump.
44% : They have certainly seen glimpses of him, most famously when his numbers crashed after the Access Hollywood tape came out in October of 2016 and Trump became willing to stay on message, at least a bit.
40% : Trump frequently does talk about policy, just not in ways that are helpful.
33% : But when Republicans say Trump should stick to policy points, they mean that he should stick to the policies they like and are broadly popular: low taxes, deregulation, robust national security, tough policies on crime and illegal immigration, etc.
32% : So while it would be good for Trump to stick to the issues for these voters, it's not even mostly about the positions themselves.
31% : What those Republicans hoping for a Trump transformation really want is for Trump to show a different character to a voting public that has mostly concluded that he is a lout and a selfish one at that.
26% : "That's the message from old-school Republicans like former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, and former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy -- the same kind of people who have spent nearly a decade pleading with Trump to buckle down and focus.
25% : But would Republicans really win an election about the issues this year if Trump listened to Graham & Co.?
23% : It's tantalizing to Republicans because they so often see polls like the latest survey from the Washington Post and ABC News, which show Trump down by 6 points nationally to Democratic nominee Kamala Harris but still leading Harris on some of the most important issues to voters.

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