New Poll Reveals Shocking Opposition To Trump’s Tariff Plan
Slightly more than half of voters in the U.S. opposeย President-elect Trumpโsย plan to tariff proposal.
Theย poll, released Wednesday, comes as Trump hasย threatened to imposeย 25 percent tariffs on all goods from Canada and Mexico and increase tariffs on China.
While 51 percent of respondents opposed Trumpโs 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 Trumpโs tariff plan than Republicans, 12 percent, and Democrats, 7 percent, the survey showed.
Trumpโs tariff threats have been met with a mix ofย reactionsย from global leaders, especially those from two of Americaโs top trading partners, Canada and Mexico. Canadian Finance Ministerย Chrystia Freelandย resigned earlier this week, citing Trumpโs tariff plans in her resignation letter.
โOur country today faces a grave challenge,โ Chrystia Freeland said in a letter addressed to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. โThe incoming administration in the United States is pursuing a policy of aggressive economic nationalism, including a threat of 25 per cent tariffs.โ
โWe need to take that threat extremely seriously,โ she added. โThat 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.โ
In her letter, Freeland argued for โpushing back against โAmerica Firstโ economic nationalism with a determined effort to fight for capital and investment and the jobs they bring.โ
โThat 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,โ she added.
Trump hit back at Freeland’s “toxic” behavior.
โThe Great State of Canada is stunned as the Finance Minister resigns, or was fired, from her position by Governor Justin Trudeau,โ Trump wrote in a Monday night post on Truth Social while mocking, again, the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as โgovernor.โ
โHer behavior was totally toxic, and not at all conducive to making deals which are good for the very unhappy citizens of Canada,โ he added. โShe will not be missed!!!โ















