REDSTATE | Published February 15, 2025
I have to say — while I thought that President Donald Trump was going to come in and get to work immediately in regard to some issues like the border and that he was going to bring in folks to clean house, I didn’t fully anticipate the “shock and awe” campaign he has been dropping every day since Jan. 20. He’s been doing so many things the Democrats don’t know which way to turn to deal with it all.
It’s like Christmas and your birthday, all in one each day with the good things he’s been doing. What a huge contrast it’s been from the empty, absent Joe Biden. It makes everyone see what we could have had for the last four years and what a difference a real leader makes. In all this action, one of his top priorities has been getting back hostages that Joe Biden didn’t even tell us were out there in places like Venezuela and Belarus.
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That’s how I’m thinking, and many I’m seeing on X are feeling. But now Axios is confirming this sentiment in a focus group of swing voters that they surveyed. The focus group included 11 people who had voted for Biden in 2020 but switched to Trump in the 2024 election. Eight were independents, two were Republicans, and one was a Democrat.
Every Arizona swing voter in our latest Engagious/Sago focus groups said they approve of President Trump’s actions since taking office — and most also support Elon Musk’s efforts to slash government.
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- Some would like to see him do more, sooner, to rein in consumer costs. But several said they don’t mind that Trump’s early actions haven’t primarily focused on inflation — even when that was their top issue in the election — and said they can be patient if prices don’t come down for a while.
- Several doubt the warnings that tariffs may translate to long-term price increases for American consumers.
- Several expressed views that “waste, fraud and abuse” are so prevalent that government agencies can be slashed or eliminated without hurting services on which they depend.
The comments? Things like “It’s needed to get America back on track,” “he’s cleaning house,” and “he’s transparent and we haven’t had that for the last four years.”
That’s pretty amazing, but they all see what’s happening, and just like the folks I talk with and/or see on X, everyone is encouraged by the actions of finally dealing with all these things that have been broken for so long. They weren’t falling for the attacks being pushed by Democrats — they weren’t concerned about any conflicts or the Democratic narrative that Musk was somehow doing it to benefit himself, when he’s already the richest man in the world. They also rejected the idea that there was a “constitutional crisis” — the tagline the Democrats currently are trying to sell.
Rich Thau, president of Engagious, who moderated the focus groups, said they were “delighted” by what Trump and Musk were doing. He said Trump, Vance, and Musk “should be ecstatic” and “Democrats should be scared to death.”
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RELATED: Dean Phillips: Democrats ‘pathetically’ fighting DOGE ‘steamroller’
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) addresses a crowd on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
THE HILL | Published February 15, 2025
Former Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) — a moderate Democrat who ran unsuccessfully for the party’s presidential nomination in 2024 — sharply criticized his former party colleagues for the way they have responded to tech billionaire Elon Musk’s broad efforts to reshape the federal government.
In an interview with CNN’s Laura Coates on Wednesday, Phillips said Democrats are wrong to be attacking Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), arguing the American people are broadly supportive of the billionaire’s goals to cut waste, fraud and abuse in government — even if some of his tactics have raised legal concerns.
“Democrats are only focused on one thing right now, Mr. Musk. The fact of the matter, he’s quite popular. He has the largest platform in human history, which is, of course, Twitter/X. And I think we’re missing the boat as Democrats,” Phillips said in the interview.
“And all I’m saying is that sometimes it’s better to join them and actually play a role in how the strategy works, rather than — so pathetically, frankly — try to combat something that clearly is a steamroller,” Phillips continued. “And Democrats are being steamrolled, and I’m deeply concerned about that.”
Several Democrats joined the DOGE Caucus in Congress when it was first unveiled late last year but have since said they have been shut out of discussions about spending and that Musk has been operating without congressional input.
Phillips acknowledged the legal concerns with some of Musk’s actions.
“Yes, Musk is not elected,” Phillips said. “He has no accountability other than Donald Trump, and that’s a frightening combination, and I don’t want to cross my fingers. I think Democrats should join the club and then have more credibility to actually raise the alarm about constitutional issues. Right now, it’s ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf.’”
Asked what Democrats should do to course-correct, Phillips nodded back to his 2024 campaign, when he first raised questions about former President Biden’s age and fitness for the job and was dismissed by others in the part.
“The course-correction, frankly, Laura, I wish had occurred a year-and-a-half ago when I tried to raise the alarm about Joe Biden,” Phillips said. “These are the same Democrats — and many of them I love, and I consider my friends — but they’re the same people who tried to tell Americans that Joe Biden was just fine, and he was going to win, and we knew better.”
“So now to try to establish credibility on issues that Americans actually voted for, which is to make government work more efficiently, is a big mistake,” he said.
