New Michigan Polling

0:00All right. So new polling shows a very tight race between Mike Rogers and Abdel Alcy Ed. Meanwhile, a little bit of a of a bigger lead for Jocelyn Benson and over John James, but still a very close race. Uh, and then there's new polling on data centers. Let's talk about it all with Chad Live and Good. The politics editor and columnist at the Detroit News. Chad, good morning. Good to have you back. Good morning, gentlemen. Uh, what do you make of the new polling, the Detroit News, WDIV polling carried out by the Glenn Gare of Group? These races are far from over there. There's a lot of runway left here for all of these campaigns. There are. I mean, our poll shows that Mike Rogers has a one point lead against Abdel Alcy Ed in the US Senate race. And Jocelyn Benson has about a four point lead against John James. Um, what in the governor's race, what, what, you know, there's about nine, 10% on decided, um, at this, at this moment. The, the, the problem right now looking

1:04for, for Republicans is that of those undecided, about 70 to 75% of them are, um, saying they, they disapprove of the job that Donald Trump is doing as president and they're, they're key major issues are cost of groceries and a cost of gas. And we can, you know, we, we all know the cost of gas that went up, shot off the, when the president went to work for Ron in February and has not gone back down ever since. And so they're, they're blaming the president for the price of gas, blaming the president for the price of groceries. And that does not pretend well for Republicans with these narrow, uh, couple, you know, if you're like Rogers, this is, this is not exactly like comforting that you're up one point. And there's, there's this angry group of undecided voters out there that would tend to break for, for your opponent. Um, but yeah, at the time, you know, there's, you know, clearly

2:07some, some, some issues that Democrats have got to work out. Um, and this, there's these, these certain issues like data centers that are just igniting voters of our, this Detroit news, WDIV poll shows that almost two thirds of Michigan voters oppose the construction of data centers. Uh, and just fewer than one in five people actually are supporting, supporting them. And, and this is even more pronounced among Democrats than Republicans. Um, and it's so, and we, we saw that in the primary between, uh, El Sayyad and, and the Haley Stevens, just how impassioned this, this, this, the subject had become. Um, and it's, it's, it's, it's, it's an issue that is given more of a, and that's what you see, Mike Rogers now going to come out for a one year moratorium. Um, and I think you're going to see some more Republicans actually push for one year moratorium. Is that they're, they're, they're trying to,

3:11uh, tell voters something that they want to hear. Um, which is, hey, I'm going to go and, I'm going to go and get this, this, uh, this train slowed down essentially. Even though we got this gigantic data center being built in the farm fields of Suleen Township, one is, you know, primary ready to go, uh, for construction and banburing township at, at 275 and, and, and 1994. Uh, and there's other ones in the pipeline and, and lying township and, and elsewhere, and then there's obviously been some, some communities that have issued more torsions, like, like a hell township and up in the Romeo area to try to, you know, slow the roll. Right. Uh, of the AI machine here. Chad, um, the poll also shows that President Trump has a 61 percent disapproval rating. And, you know, many undecided voters also disapprove of him. How difficult is it going to be for John James, microt just to separate themselves from the president when necessary without alienating that Trump base? Yeah. I mean, I think they, they

4:15stick out the Trump base. Where is, you know, if you, they're in a separate now or, or, or, more maybe lose the election. I mean, that's good. That's good. That's what's coming down to here. President Trump's approval rating is down to 35 percent. This is a low in, in Glengare approved polls, you know, uh, quarterly or even more, more often than that has pulled Trump, since 2018, uh, looking at, or, uh, for the 17, when it came to office, there has never been an approval rating for Donald Trump this low. I mean, and this, this is Joe Biden early 2024 territory now, uh, effectively when Biden was deeply unpopular because of, because of the price of groceries, um, and, and gas and, and, and, and, um, and so he's, he's really, really become, you know, looking more and more like an anchor on, on the, on the Republican ticket right now. And, and one of the big issues that is just very unique to Michigan is his trade war with Canada

5:20and the effect it is having on the Michigan economy. And as part of the poll here, we asked the voters, uh, what do they think of, of, uh, the, the, the, the new 50 percent tariffs. Um, you know, that the president just slapped on Canadian cement, whining, dairy product, hockey sticks. And, uh, and, and the, and the, uh, just just less than 30 percent of the voters, uh, approve of these tariffs, nearly two thirds of them disapprove. And when you start asking, you know, um, uh, how, the pennants feel about this 73 percent of those independent, of independence are opposed to it. I don't know, Democrats are almost completely united, 93 percent, but the, the, the fact that, that you got, say, three percent of the independent independence decide elections in this take and when, and these close races. And so, well, and then you, and then you look at some of these races, obviously, the, the Rogers L. Syed race, that could very well determine, uh, who wins the

6:23Senate and who controls the high chamber in Washington's fascinating stuff. Chad, live and good, uh, fortunately, right at time, we appreciate you as always. Thank you. We'll talk again very soon. Thanks guys. Yeah, you got it. Uh, fascinating stuff. Yes. And again, these, just the snapshot time, is they out? I got to kill us. We'll talk about it next.