The Liberty Daily 
(The Daily Signal)—President Donald Trump doubled down on his support for artificial intelligence Friday, even as polling indicates that concerns about the technology weighed heavily on voters in the midterm elections.
“As President, I am 100% in favor of Super Intelligence (SI), and will work with the many States in the U.S. that want to become RICH by having them,” he wrote on Truth Social Friday. “They are GOLD, and only foolish leadership will say ‘NO’ to the riches they bring!” Trump has argued that the term “super intelligence” more accurately captures the technology’s capabilities and potential.
Exit polling in Tuesday’s midterm elections revealed bipartisan concern over the issue.
Sixty-five percent of Democrats and 39% of Republicans said AI and data centers were a crucial or major factor for their congressional ballot, according to NBC’s exit polling.
The share of voters calling on AI to be a top government priority tripled from December 2025 to October 2026, according to a Navigator Research survey. The jump from 7% to 21% was the largest increase of any issue tested in the survey.
Eighteen percent of voters told CNBC that a failure to regulate AI and data centers was a top concern if Republicans kept the majority in Congress.
Alliance for a Better Future, a conservative AI safety organization, issued a memo saying the midterm “election results were a sobering reminder for conservatives of just how fragile our majorities are in Washington and in many GOP-led states across the country.”
“While most of the pundit class is attributing the major GOP losses earlier this week to the war in Iran, gas prices, and the overall state of the economy,” the memo says, “it’s impossible to ignore the strong impact Super Intelligence (SI) policy had on this election and how connected it is to economic concerns in particular.”
Though the majority of voters support some AI regulation, Trump has taken a light touch approach to regulating emerging technology. In August, Trump said critics data centers want to be “backwards and poor,” instead urging towns to “let data reign.”
He signed an executive order in September directing executive branch departments and agencies to use “super intelligence” instead of “artificial intelligence” in official communications.
