Trump’s favorability has fallen among AAPI adults since last year, AAPI Data/AP-NORC poll finds

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press A small but fast-growing group of people in the United States have soured somewhat on President Donald Trump this year as they worry about high costs and fear new tariff policies will further raise their personal expenses a new poll finds The percentage of Asian Americans Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders with an unfavorable opinion of Trump rose to in July from in December according to a national survey by AAPI Content and The Associated Press-NORC Center for General Affairs Research Notably AAPI adults who describe themselves as independent are especially likely to have cooled on Trump About in AAPI independents have a very or somewhat unfavorable opinion of the Republican president up roughly percentage points since December Related Articles From tech podcasts to approach Trump s new AI plan leans heavily on Silicon Valley industry ideas Flurry of business deals offers relief for several Asian countries while others wait Howie Carr Biden s edge mess remains a nightmare Trump announces business deal with Japan that lowers threatened tariff to Trump likes renaming people places and things He s not the first to deploy that perk of power The poll is part of an ongoing project exploring the views of Asian Americans Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders whose views are usually not highlighted in other surveys because of small sample sizes and lack of linguistic representation AAPI independents unfavorable view of Trump is higher than his unfavorable rating among independent adults overall which was in a June AP-NORC poll having nudged slightly higher from in December Economic concerns could be playing a central role About in AAPI adults expect Trump s tariff policies will increase the cost of consumer goods the poll ascertained while only about in think those policies will boost domestic manufacturing and just in anticipate more U S jobs as a product To me it seems like a lot of not-really-well-thought-out things that are happening declared Michael Ida a -year-old independent in Hawaii who teaches high school advanced-placement calculus In the process there s a lot of collateral damage and fallout that s hurting a lot of people Ida was referring specifically to establishment spending cuts including for schooling AAPI adults represent a small segment of the U S population making up about of the nation s residents in according to a Pew Research Center analysis of administration records Likewise they are hardly a pro-Trump voting bloc generally In last year s balloting English-speaking Asian U S voters shifted slightly toward Trump but with only about a third supporting him up from in according to AP VoteCast a survey of the American electorate conducted in all states The new poll also suggests that they are especially likely to be worried about the financial sector s trajectory and remain anxious about high costs About two-thirds of AAPI adults say they are extremely or very concerned about the possibility of the U S market system going into a recession higher than the of the Americans generally who disclosed the same in an April AP-NORC survey On the economic activity you saw AAPI voters shift not in a big way but shift nonetheless toward Trump in the polling announced Karthick Ramakrishnan executive director of AAPI Details and researcher at the University of California Berkeley They are not seeing big economic benefits pan out Quite the contrary they are seeing big economic risks on the horizon based on Trump s action on tariffs Shopan Hafiz a -year-old independent and engineer at Intel in Oregon described his view of Trump as very unfavorable and bemoaned the Republican president s tariff approach which he expected to hit American consumers harder in the coming months With all the tariffs I don t think it s going to help Hafiz noted All the tariffs will ultimately be paid by U S nationals and inflation is going to get worse The poll comes in the midst of Trump s on-and-off threats to impose tariffs for what he says is his goal of leveling the nation s agreement imbalance Inflation rose in June to its highest level since February as Trump s tariffs pushed up the cost of household goods from groceries to appliances Consumer prices rose in June from a year earlier the Labor Department stated last week up from an annual increase of in May On a monthly basis prices climbed from May to June after rising just the previous month Like Hafiz Ida the facilitator in Hawaii did not vote for Trump last year Instead both voted for Libertarian Party nominee Chase Oliver Hafiz s decision was in opposition to the two major U S parties endorsement for Israel in its war in Gaza Ida explained the two major parties had become too extreme Ida is among the roughly two-thirds of AAPI adults who say they are at least very concerned about the cost of groceries He s noticed fear of higher prices in his Pacific island state and even more within the ethnic businesses in light of Hawaii s reliance on shipped goods Here in Hawaii because we re so isolated everything comes on a ship or a plane he commented We re especially vulnerable to prices rising and disruptions in the supply chain There s definitely specific anxiety there The poll of U S adults who are Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders was conducted June - using a sample drawn from NORC s probability-based Amplify AAPI Panel designed to be representative of the Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander population Online and telephone interviews were offered in English the Chinese dialects of Mandarin and Cantonese Vietnamese and Korean The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus percentage points