Former official Miles Taylor warns new Fox News polling proves government corruption has become the primary voter concern, spelling doom for the MAGA movement.
On Friday, a whistleblower from President Donald Trump’s first administration laid out why the latest poll numbers amount to a “death sentence” for MAGA. According to Miles Taylor – who served as Deputy Chief of Staff in Homeland Security and famously leaked White House secrets – a new survey by Fox News proves that Americans are fed up with Trump and MAGA corruption once and for all.
As Taylor writes, “A Fox News poll released this week asked registered voters what worries them most heading into the midterms. The winner was not affordability or the economy, which have dominated every election cycle in living memory. It was corruption in government. A whopping 88 percent of voters said they were extremely or very concerned about it. It beat high gas and grocery prices. It beat healthcare. It beat everything! In the same survey, Trump’s approval sank to 36 percent, the lowest Fox has ever recorded for him. In other polls, it’s dipped into the 20s.” What’s more, Taylor notes that on the previous day, an AP-NORC survey found that most Americans believe Trump is profiting from the presidency either illegally or unethically, and that he’s more focused on building his own wealth than on helping everyday people. On top of that, Taylor points to a Gallup poll that reported that 89 percent of Americans now believe corruption is widespread in their government. That's the highest Gallup has ever measured, and it puts the U.S. at the very bottom of the developed world – out of 38 countries – when it comes to perceived corruption.
According to Taylor, “These are history-making developments.” Pollsters have been asking Americans what worries them most for nearly 100 years, and though there have been plenty of corruption scandals, they have never outranked economic concerns – not even after Watergate, when voters still ranked the economy and inflation ahead of Nixon’s crimes. This has changed, writes Taylor, because “Trump has made corruption literally impossible to ignore. He turned it from a background story that’s always playing out in Washington into basically the lead story of every news cycle for the past 18 months. What’s worse, the high prices people are experiencing at the grocery and at the pump are in no small part because of Trump’s corruption.”