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AXIOS (Courtenay Brown) - Americans hate the 2026 economy

The economy has been steadily growing for the last five years, and inflation is way down from its peak nearly four years ago. Public opinion about the economy, by contrast, keeps plumbing new depths. The big picture: Americans are decisively negative about the economic picture, despite conventional measures of economic performance remaining reasonably solid. - It suggests both a new political state of nature and an undercurrent of gloom that traditional economic data and analysis don't quite capture. Catch up quick: A preliminary April reading from the University of Michigan consumer sentiment surveys was lower than that index has ever been, in data that has been consistently collected since 1978. - That data was mostly collected before…

The economy has been steadily growing for the last five years, and inflation is way down from its peak nearly four years ago. Public opinion about the economy, by contrast, keeps plumbing new depths. The big picture: Americans are decisively negative about the economic picture, despite conventional measures of economic performance remaining reasonably solid. - It suggests both a new political state of nature and an undercurrent of gloom that traditional economic data and analysis don't quite capture. Catch up quick: A preliminary April reading from the University of Michigan consumer sentiment surveys was lower than that index has ever been, in data that has been consistently collected since 1978. - That data was mostly collected before…Open

AXIOS (Andrew Pantazi) - Trump's pope spat risks feud with crucial Catholic swing voters

President Trump followed a Holy Week of profanity-laced threats with attacks on Pope Leo XIV and posting an AI self-portrait as a Jesus-like figure — risking alienating Catholic swing voters who backed him in 2024. Why it matters: Catholics are America's largest swing religious vote, and Trump's support among them was already sliding before his latest attacks on their pontiff. - Trump won Catholics by 10–20 points in 2024, depending on the exit poll, a dramatic swing from 2020. - Now, he has used campaign-style rhetoric to attack their pope as a political enemy. - "I cannot think of any parallels, at least coming from Western Christian majority countries, of such pointed and public attacks on the Pope," Andrew Chesnut ,…

President Trump followed a Holy Week of profanity-laced threats with attacks on Pope Leo XIV and posting an AI self-portrait as a Jesus-like figure — risking alienating Catholic swing voters who backed him in 2024. Why it matters: Catholics are America's largest swing religious vote, and Trump's support among them was already sliding before his latest attacks on their pontiff. - Trump won Catholics by 10–20 points in 2024, depending on the exit poll, a dramatic swing from 2020. - Now, he has used campaign-style rhetoric to attack their pope as a political enemy. - "I cannot think of any parallels, at least coming from Western Christian majority countries, of such pointed and public attacks on the Pope," Andrew Chesnut ,…Open