New Poll Reveals Shocking Opposition To Trump’s Tariff Plan
Slightly more than half of voters in the U.S. oppose President-elect Trumpâs plan to tariff proposal.
The poll, released Wednesday, comes as Trump has threatened to impose 25 percent tariffs on all goods from Canada and Mexico and increase tariffs on China.
While 51 percent of respondents opposed Trumpâs tariff plan, 38 percent supported it, the survey showed.
The majority of Democrats, 89 percent, Republicans, 76 percent, and independents, 53 percent, also opposed the plan, the poll found.
More independents, 34 percent, supported Trumpâs tariff plan than Republicans, 12 percent, and Democrats, 7 percent, the survey showed.
Trumpâs tariff threats have been met with a mix of reactions from global leaders, especially those from two of Americaâs top trading partners, Canada and Mexico. Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigned earlier this week, citing Trumpâs tariff plans in her resignation letter.
âOur country today faces a grave challenge,â Chrystia Freeland said in a letter addressed to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. âThe incoming administration in the United States is pursuing a policy of aggressive economic nationalism, including a threat of 25 per cent tariffs.â
âWe need to take that threat extremely seriously,â she added. âThat means keeping our fiscal powder dry today, so we have the reserves we may need for a coming tariff war. That means eschewing costly political gimmicks, which we can ill afford and which make Canadians doubt that we recognize the gravity of the moment.â
In her letter, Freeland argued for âpushing back against âAmerica Firstâ economic nationalism with a determined effort to fight for capital and investment and the jobs they bring.â
âThat means working in good faith and humility with the Premiers of the provinces and territories of our great and diverse country, and building a true Team Canada response,â she added.
Trump hit back at Freeland’s “toxic” behavior.
âThe Great State of Canada is stunned as the Finance Minister resigns, or was fired, from her position by Governor Justin Trudeau,â Trump wrote in a Monday night post on Truth Social while mocking, again, the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as âgovernor.â
âHer behavior was totally toxic, and not at all conducive to making deals which are good for the very unhappy citizens of Canada,â he added. âShe will not be missed!!!â














