https://www.reuters.com/world/us/americans-blame-trump-gas-price-surge-midterm-election-year-reutersipsos-poll-2026-04-24/A clear majority of Americans blame President Donald Trump for surging gasoline prices, which is weighing on his Republican Party ahead of November's congressional midterm elections, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.Some 77% of registered voters in the poll, which concluded early this week, said Trump bears at least a fair amount of responsibility for the recent rise in gas prices, which was sparked by his decision to launch a war on Iran along with U.S. ally Israel.The view was widely shared across the political spectrum, with 55% of Republican voters, 82% of independents and 95% of Democrats pinning blame on the president for the higher costs.Some 58% of voters, including one in five Republicans and two-thirds of independents, said they would be less likely to support candidates in the November 3 midterms who support Trump's approach to the conflict with Iran.The U.S. and Israel launched surprise attacks on Iran in February that killed the country's leader and thousands of Iranians. Tehran responded with attacks on U.S. allies in the region, damaging oil export facilities and shutting down roughly a fifth of the global oil trade. U.S. gasoline prices have risen to about $4 a gallon, a dollar more than before the war started.The war is grinding on household finances and weighing on Republicans ahead of the midterm elections, when Trump's party faces what many see as an uphill battle to keep their U.S. House of Representatives majority. Risks are also rising that they lose control of the Senate.
"Right now, it’s bad. People are upset," said Sarah Chamberlain, strategist and president of the Republican Main Street Partnership.”Republicans are obviously very concerned about maintaining the House, but if we can get through the Iran situation by summertime and gas prices drop back down, or at least go down maybe not to quite the level they were prior to the war, then I think we have a really good shot."Some 77% of Americans see fuel prices as a very big concern, the Reuters/Ipsos poll showed, and respondents were more than twice as likely to expect an increase in fuel prices over the next year than they were to expect a decrease.Trump won the 2024 election after pledging to fix the high rates of inflation that bedeviled his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden. He has repeatedly claimed the U.S. economy is "booming," including in remarks in Las Vegas on April 16. The White House website proclaims to visitors: "WELCOME TO THE GOLDEN AGE!"But 70% of respondents in the Reuters/Ipsos poll disagreed with a statement that the economy was booming. Some 82% said inflation was a big concern."Trump has made affordability and bringing down prices a cornerstone of the Make America Great Again movement, and with costs going up in the country, that is a hard circle to square, messaging wise," said Erin Maguire, a Republican strategist.Maguire said Republican candidates have to be careful how they talk about the war with Iran while highlighting the effort the administration has put into cutting taxes.The Reuters/Ipsos poll also showed significant erosion in the Republican Party's longstanding advantage on the economy. The latest survey, conducted April 15-20, showed 38% of U.S. voters prefer the Republican approach to the economy compared to 37% who said Democrats are better on the issue. That one-point advantage for Republicans compares to a 14-point advantage the party had immediately after Trump started his second term in January 2025.
It's typical for American voters to blame the president for any raises in fuel prices. Usually they're wrong. This time, though, they are so very right. NONE OF THIS would be happening if Trump hadn't gone and fucked up a war of choice.
>>1508885But I thought OPEC controls gas prices, not the president?
>>1508894Usually yes. However, when the president does something so collossally stupid with immediate effects, like say, not only causing a war that leads to the blockade of one of the world's most important trade routes, but then deciding to double down by ACTIVELY BLOCKADING IT HIMSELF, it'll have a pretty direct effect.
>>1508894OPEC production has fallen due to the disruption caused by the conflict with Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. It's Trump's fault.
>>1508895>>1508896>Biden does something so collosally stupid with immediate effects like:>killing the Keystone XL project>halting development in Alaska>tries to halt in the Gulf of Mex - I mean America, until a judge slaps him>halts new leases on public lands>increased taxes, royalties and fees on production>increased EPA restrictions>bans oil trade with Russia (don't care why, he still did this)>rejoins Paris agreement>funneled money into green energy deals that went nowhere>threatened to end all fossil fuel companies in America>all this while we're trying to recover from a pandemic>... It's not his fault. The president doesn't control gas prices. OPEC does!Oh okay. I understand now. It's (D)ifferent.
>>1508897Same logic as the programmed MIGA in the poll. >Fuel Prices are a very big concern for me>The conflict in Iran is a cause of rising fuel prices>...but Trump has nothing to do with the conflict in Iran, so has nothing to do with rising fuel pricessimps like you are pathetic
>>1508897All of those things combined had about 1/10th of an impact compared to the closure of the strait. Most of the price increase in Biden's term was due to covid aftereffects.
>>1508898The shill you're replying to isn't american anyways
>>1508897Seethe harder migger
Butthurt reuters opinion piece
>>1508897>>bans oil trade with Russia (don't care whylol okay
>>1508894Trump's stupid war caused an OPEC country to shut down a major waterway used for transporting oil from other OPEC countries
i hope strait never opens and gas goes to $20 so all u fat consumer human fucks will have to walk and earth air will be fresh alrhough ur constant farting making more green so maybe +4C is a good thing. either way i hope u all suffer :3
>>1508986Why are you like this?
>>1508992They'll never forgive humanity for making pedophilia illegal They may forgive humanity if we use American supermedicine to make them white and erase all records of them being a nonwhite nonamerican though
>>1508897Why did trump threaten the Saudis to make them cut oil production when it was super cheap then?All of this remains his fault.
>>1508885To be fair, higher gas prices are his fault and the Iran war is retarded.I'm not going to vote democrat over it though.Last time was extremely bad and I refuse to let them gain power again.
>>1509000Well, looking into itDespite the agreement to cut a tenth of global production, oil prices continued to fall to historic lows. U.S. oil futures dropped below $0 last week as sellers paid buyers to avoid taking delivery of oil they had no place to store. Brent futures, the global oil benchmark, fell towards $15 per barrel - a level not seen since the 1999 oil price crash – from as high as $70 at the start of the year.It seems we had too much supply. Probably due to COVID.
>>1509109...Or you could actually do something about the broken system you guys have? Like maybe overthrow it?Too bad you won't. Yanks are too docile to do anything serious.
>>1509109>Alienates allies across the globe. Threatens the petrodollar, the foundation of our economy. Bombs schools. Enriches himself by over a billion dollars by announcing tarrifs to short the stock market and buying the dip. Cuts taxes for the wealthy, destroys aca to pay for it. Threatens Medicare to pay for war of choice he explicitly ran on not starting. Threatens draft for said war. Ends USAID, killing hundreds of thousands of people and letting food aid that could have saved them rot. Passes hundreds of unconstitutional executive orders in an overreach of executive power the courts have to waste time striking down. Writes a EO that effectively renders everyone genderless because he doesn't understand biology. .....>"BuT I'D nEvEr VoTe DeM," Cool. You're either ignorant or evil, establishment dems are objectively better than this, you're an honorless traitor.
>>1509145In sharp contrast to the BritishOh.The Germans?Oh… The French? At least they still demonstrate but…. Nope.
>>1509157Reminds me of that one viral tweet recently of someone from Venezuela who voted in their current far-right leader going "Oh I'm literally homeless now because of his policies and there's such little chance of recovery I'm trying to immigrate. But I'd still never vote for a leftist."
>>1509157>>1509145>Sure the Democrats want an open border so they can continue turning us into the third world by importing the third world so we will all be doomed to live in a pod and own nothing, and also normalize discrimination against Whites and men>But gas would be slightly cheaper!!!nah I'm good
>>1509111>Not seen since the 1999 oil price crashAnon, we had Oil go negative five times just during COVID alone, the market has been continually unstable even if the absence of any wars or Trump because the entire planet has been limitlessly spending and making bad fiscal decisions with absolutely no brakes and no plan for what to do after the next 20 years or so when the current crop of politicians dies of old age.They do not care what happens after they die in any capacity and this has been reflected in every market from oil to real estate for the past 75 years.
>>1509161Your mental illness doesn't affect reality. Gas prices spiking the price of existing beyond what the vast majority can afford, however, are very real.
>>1509164>implying the vast majority of Americans can't afford paying more for gasYou not being American adult doesn't affect what American adults actually experience.Meanwhile, mass immigration has made single family homes so unaffordable that people are accepting living in pods forever.
I love these threads because there is always one idiot defending Trump. A few years ago there would be hordes of rabid MAGAs supporting their guy, now it's just one or two sorry souls mouthing the same shit over and over.>esl shill>troon>jeet>but what about Biden?Makes me sick how far we done fell.
>>1509164I will say this ... the increase in diesel costs due to sulphur regulations that have been in effect for several years is a greater reason for price increases of transported good. This was what has been really driving inflation since Trump's first term. Yeah, the price at the pump for gas is up for awhile until Trump surrenders or w/e, but diesel increases have been driving it for years.
>>1509166You do realize that gas prices affect ALL prices, right?>Meanwhile, mass immigration has made single family homes so unaffordable that people are accepting living in pods forever.lmao this is so fucking delusional. The housing market is a mess for a lot of reasons but not immigrants.
>>1509169>The housing market is a mess for a lot of reasons but not immigrants.Kinda true. It's because foreign investors are using American real-estate to offshore their own wealth.Fixing this problem would crash the housing market and deprive boomers of their property values. Which is why nobody wants to do it.
>>1509170>It's because foreign investorsStop. We know why. And it’s not because of some single mysterious group
>>1509184>We know why.If you say it's the fault of the bourgeoisie I'm going to call you a slur.
I am in California. Ever since Trump took office, my gas prices have been very high. We cannot keep living like this.
>>1509167If the dems won 2024 we could have avoided this mess.But no, they HAD to run Kamala when Americans were sick of her and Biden.So yeah, it is the left's fault.Checkmate.
>>1508885>Americans blame TrumpActually we blame the browns. If the rest of the political establishment would just get out of his way and help deport all the Mexicans the economy would be in a much better state.The 'people' they're polling for information are in fact the browns in question who are not Americans and in no way reflect the opinions or feelings of Americans.
>>1508885No, it’s always Biden’s fault… GRAH!!!
>>1509191>westill pretending to be an American, eh?
>>1509190The DNC is more obsessed with being progressive than actually helping the country.The people want Bernie, not Kamala or Shillary.The fact that a socialist like Bernie is so popular makes him a threat to the establishment which is why he keeps getting snubbed.America is under control of a uniparty.
>>1509193>Let me tell you about your countryFuck off, Paco.
>>1509145Trump has done an OK job doing that. The problem is no one else will continue the work once he's gone. It's a generational mess.And where are you from where you're government is not corrupt and on the same fucking path out to destroy you?>NO HE HASN'TFuck off. You know nothing.
>>1509157>Cool. You're either ignorant or evil, establishment dems are objectively better than this, you're an honorless traitor.Give me one reason to vote Democrat that isn't an appeal to emotions or outright false.
>>1509200>you're governmentlmaowhy do you keep pretending to be American?
>>1509160Uh, Venezuela? Far right?What?
>>1509187You sold me. If it removes Californians I’ll be on board for anything Trump does.
>>1509200>>NO HE HASN'tI didn't say that.
The fact is Trump is the reason why Californians are paying such high taxes. This was not an issue before he invaded Iran.
>>1509184Well it was confirmed that most home sales in Canada during COVID were purchased by Chinese investors looking to offshore their money. The US saw similar activity. Most of the homes that have come up for sale in my area in Chicago over the last several years have been getting bought up by Indians and Muslims.
>>1509337>The fact is Trump is the reason why Californians are paying such high taxes. This was not an issue before he invaded Iran.>taxes in California weren't high before trumpWEW LAD
