Trump voter regret is clearly registering now | CNN Politics

As President Donald Trump’s poll numbers have hit new lows amid the Iran war, there’s now the firmest evidence yet of a long-anticipated dynamic: the regretful Trump voter. While a fair number of Trump voters have had reservations for a while, a series of polls in recent weeks shows those reservations are starting to tip over into something more serious. A YouGov poll from the University of Massachusetts Amherst — a survey we’ve spotlighted before on this issue — is the hardest evidence. Rather than ask a straight question about whether people regret their votes, the poll offers a sliding scale of more-nuanced options, including “some concerns,” “mixed feelings” and “some regrets,” rather than just full-on regret. In April 2025, 74% of Trump voters scorned any of those options and said they were “very confident” in their vote. But today, that number has declined to 62%. The 38% of Trump voters who chose a less-resolute option was double the 19% of Kamala Harris voters who did the same. Of that 38%, 21% of Trump voters said they were still “confident” in their votes but had “some concerns.” And the percentage who declined to express confidence in th