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Voters Aren’t Buying Trump’s Bid to Blame Biden for His Mess: Poll

Trump voters had been more likely to point the finger at the former president until last month, a YouGov poll shows.

When in doubt, blame Joe Biden. That’s a move straight out of Donald Trump’s playbook, but even his voters aren’t buying it, according to a new poll. The Wall Street Journal commissioned YouGov to gather data between June 17 and 20. The results indicated that 46 percent of Trump voters are likely to admit that he is more responsible for the current state of the economy than Joe Biden, with only 34 percent still pointing the finger at the former president. Tellingly, Trump voters had been more likely to blame Biden before last month. In April, just after the 100-day mark of his second term, Trump tried to abate criticism for the state of the stock market by blaming “Biden overhang.” Writing on Truth Social, he said: “This is Biden’s Stock Market, not Trump’s.” The message came as the stock market gyrated wildly in response to the president’s controversial “Liberation Day” tariffs, enacted in early April. “I didn’t take over until January 20th. Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers,” he added. Days later, on NBC’s Meet the Press, Trump said the good parts of the U.S. economy were the “Trump economy,” and the bad parts were the “Biden economy.”