I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir when I say that you shouldn’t trust polls. How many times were we told in 2024 that Joe Biden was beating Donald Trump, or Kamala Harris was beating Trump? You shouldn't blindly trust polls. There are many reasons to question poll results. It may be due to small sample sizes, weighting errors, or poor models from biased pollsters. Also, sometimes the poll can be conducted perfectly, and the problem lies with the respondents, not with the poll or its conduct.
Take the recent Harvard CAPS-Harris poll claiming that 53% of voters think the economy is worse now than under Biden. Democrats hate Trump so viscerally that they'd swear up is down before admitting he's turned things around.
Party loyalty scrambles economic perception faster than a blender on high. Most Democrats loathe Trump with such intensity that acknowledging economic improvement under his watch feels like a betrayal of their identity as Democrats.
But as the saying goes, reality doesn't care about feelings, and the data keeps pouring in to prove Trump is cleaning up the mess left by Joe Biden. For example, inflation cooled significantly in January, dropping to 2.4% year-over-year from December's 2.7%. That's an eight-month low and came in better than the 2.5% economists expected. Month over month, prices rose just 0.2%, thanks to falling gas prices and slowing housing costs.
Core inflation, which strips out volatile food and energy prices, hit 2.5%, the lowest level since March 2021, right before Biden's inflation nightmare went crazy. CNN's own Matt Egan admitted this was "encouraging news on the cost of living" and a "big step in the right direction." Core inflation hasn't looked this good in nearly five years.
🚨 CNN: "That's the LOWEST annual inflation rate for core since March of 2021 before the inflation crisis."pic.twitter.com/ueVVb0BRse
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) February 13, 2026
There’s actually been a lot of encouraging news about the economy under Trump this year alone. The economy added 172,000 private-sector jobs in January, more than doubling what economists had predicted. Even better, the private sector did the heavy lifting while the federal government shed workers—unemployment dropped to 4.3%. Since Trump's second term began, 615,000 private-sector jobs have been created, while federal employment has fallen to its lowest level since 1966.
Average weekly earnings for private workers jumped 0.7% in January alone. So far in Trump’s second term, weekly earnings have risen 4.3%, and hourly earnings have increased 3.7%.
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Despite these undeniable improvements, Democrats refuse to acknowledge progress. E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, nailed the problem: Democrat respondents let their hatred of Trump poison their view of the economy. "Muddying the waters over the last year or so is the fact that Democrat respondents in polls have been allowing their hatred of President Trump to cloud their view of the economy," he said.
The Harvard CAPS-Harris poll showed that 63% of voters correctly attribute the current economy to Trump's policies rather than Biden's. Yet somehow, 53% claim that things are worse. That math only works when partisan blinders replace honest assessment. Democrats would rather cling to their narrative than admit Trump delivered what Biden promised and failed to achieve.
Trump Derangement Syndrome has Democrats so twisted that they'll deny prosperity staring them in the face. The numbers don't lie, even when poll respondents do.
