Americans are more optimistic about the economy than they were before Donald Trump’s reelection, a newly released survey from pollster Scott Rasmussen’s Napolitan News Service shows.
A survey of 1,000 Americans conducted in early January reports 24% of Americans say their financial situation is improving and 33% say it’s getting worse.
The Napolitan Institute press release explains that this result is “one point less pessimistic than a month ago and a six-point improvement since Donald Trump was elected.”
Of course, this cannot be the result of Donald Trump’s policies in action, as he has not been inaugurated yet.
But Rasmussen’s survey does suggest a major improvement in Americans’ optimism about their finances since the November elections, as the institute reports that these numbers are “the least pessimistic result we’ve measured in two years,…