Election time is here, and voters have caught on to con-man Trump

President Trump is one of history’s most successful con men, winning two elections by convincing millions of voters to believe his false boasts and promises. But with early voting now underway for the midterms, Americans are finally wising up to his dishonesty, selfishness, incompetence, corruption and disregard for legal restraints on his power.

Most Americans now realize Trump’s tariffs on imported products and his disastrous war of choice against Iran — which has lasted more than seven months, despite him saying it would last less than eight weeks — are to blame for the rising prices of gasoline, diesel fuel, groceries and many other products.

An Associated Press-NORC Center Public Affairs Research poll published Oct. 1 found that 71 percent of adult Americans disapprove of how Trump is handling the war. Sixty-five percent believe his policies have caused high prices that have created an affordability crisis.

The New York Times latest average of polls shows less than 40 percent of voters approve of Trump’s overall performance in office.

And yet, Trump refuses to acknowledge this reality. “Everyone thinks the prices are high because of me, but they’re not,” he said Oct. 1. “We have the greatest [economic] numbers of any president in the history of our country,” he falsely stated. “The only thing we’re doing badly at is public relations.”

When told recently by a Time Magazine journalist that “your polls have never been lower,” Trump responded: “They’re fake numbers. … The pollsters are corrupt.”

While polls are sometimes inaccurate, reputable pollsters all strive for accuracy and don’t deliberately undermine........

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