Poll: Trump Seems To Be Losing The Confidence Of America’s Monied Class

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump listens to introductory remarks before speaking in New York's Trump Tower building, Monday, April 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Start your day with TPM.
Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter

Some of the nation’s investors are dumping Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, according to a new Bloomberg/Morning Consult poll.

When asked which presidential candidate would be better for their investment portfolios, investors back in June favored Trump over Hillary Clinton by 17 points, 50-33. But in the new poll his lead is down to two percent, 42-40.

Should the nation go into another economic recession in the coming four years, Trump enjoyed only a two-point lead, 41-39, among investors asked who they would feel more confident with in the Oval Office, despite the real estate magnate’s frequent claims that he survived and thrived in the recent recession.

This poll was conducted online by Morning Consult for Bloomberg from Aug. 11-14. The survey includes a sample of 880 individuals nationally with money in the stock market and mutual funds, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percent for that population.

Latest Polltracker

Notable Replies

  1. Avatar for ajm ajm says:

    The results of due diligence.

  2. Trump Seems To Be Losing The Confidence Of America’s Monied Class.

    But not these folks. People, this is seriously hilarious, but at once frightening. Mrs. von Holst and I couldn’t stop laughing. Do not drink coffee while watching the video!

    If you’ve ever been morbidly curious about who Trump voters are and what they really believe, Triumph the insult comic dog is here to help.

    Triumph has a new video in which he conducts a fake focus group with a very real group of Trump supporters. The point is to show outrageous fake Trump plans to deal with immigration, transgender bathroom rights and other issues to Trump supporters to see if they think those plans are over the top or just what we need to “make America great again.”

    For instance, should we include handguns in all women’s bathrooms to protect cisgender women from transgender bathroom predators?

    And trap illegal Mexican immigrants in porta-potties placed near Home Depot and then ship them back to Mexico? Or demand that Hillary Clinton prove that she is in fact a woman? These Trump voters agree: yes, we should.

    Watch the almost too-outrageous-to-believe video, below.

  3. Donald Trump: Loser Extraordinaire + Yuuuuuuge Loser!!

  4. The fact that Hillary has narrowed the gap among ‘the monied class’ is a good thing. The fact that Trump still has more support than she does simply proves that intelligence and wealth are completely independent of one another.

  5. People with money don’t make decisions based on emotion. They crunch numbers. If they conclude Trump is bad for their bottom lines Trump’s got to go.

Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com

22 more replies

Participants

Avatar for system1 Avatar for chigger Avatar for runfastandwin Avatar for charliee Avatar for mmurdoch Avatar for leftflank Avatar for thunderhawk Avatar for rudesan Avatar for jimtoday Avatar for populuxecowboy Avatar for ralph_vonholst Avatar for pippenpippen Avatar for justthefacts Avatar for dickweed Avatar for ronbyers Avatar for anon216902 Avatar for benthere Avatar for thunderclapnewman Avatar for jinnj Avatar for albesure Avatar for yossarian Avatar for professorpoopypants Avatar for pejesq Avatar for edwardpig

Continue Discussion
Masthead Masthead
Founder & Editor-in-Chief:
Executive Editor:
Managing Editor:
Deputy Editor:
Editor at Large:
General Counsel:
Publisher:
Head of Product:
Director of Technology:
Associate Publisher:
Front End Developer:
Senior Designer: