Voters are deeply dissatisfied with the direction of the country under President Joe Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris hasn’t done enough to break with him. The economy, inflation and immigration remain dominant issues, and voters say Trump handled them better during his presidency, Steven Shepard writes for Politico.

Despite ending his single term as one of the least-popular presidents of the past 50 years following his defeat and the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, about half of voters now say they approve of the job Trump did as president in retrospect.

For the entirety of the campaign, the economy has ranked as voters’ top issue. And even though Harris has closed some of the gap on the economy in the final stretch of the campaign, Trump remains the more trusted candidate on the issue, holding a 6-point advantage in the final New York Times/Siena College poll.

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