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Behind Trump’s bluster there’s a sobering realisation he is losing the public

WAtoday Natalie Allison, Isaac Arnsdorf

21 Sept 2026 14:21 AEST Summary

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The US president has routinely dismissed poor polls, but he is starting to get the message that his brand and his party are on the nose with US voters.

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**Not from this story.** A library photograph of world map globe, used to illustrate it. FDR’s World Map Globe FDR Presidential Library & Museum / flickr, CC BY

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Niral Score 10.4 mundaneloaded

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Sourcing 42 unattributednamed sources Mood 46.9 sorrowjoyful

6 read zero: sentiment, political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Sentiment 0 hostilefavourable Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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WAtodayas they published this story	10.4

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Brisbane Times Behind Trump’s bluster there’s a sobering realisation he is losing the public Niral 10.4 political 0 The Age Behind Trump’s bluster there’s a sobering realisation he is losing the public Niral 10.4 political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald Behind Trump’s bluster there’s a sobering realisation he is losing the public Niral 10.4 political 0