Frustrations are mounting in the White House, a former insider said Wednesday.

A new CNN poll found that a record 73 percent of Americans believe President Trump has not focused enough on the country’s most pressing problems, while 27 percent said he has had the right priorities.

The survey, conducted by SSRS, came amid worsening views of the Iran war, ongoing economic frustration and broad dissatisfaction with the president’s handling of those issues. Former White House staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin discussed the findings on "CNN News Central."

"These are glaring signals – alarms are going off," Griffin said. Griffin, who served as director of strategic communications during Trump’s first term, said advisers around the White House want the president to concentrate on the economy. "You and I were covering that speech last week at the White House Correspondents Dinner. He was weaving, he was bobbing, he was swimming. He was all over, and his White House advisers, I talk to many of them, they simply want him to focus on the economy – yet he will not do that."

Trump’s overall approval rating stands at 34 percent, matching the career low he reached at the end of his first term after January 6, 2021. Half of Americans now strongly disapprove of him, while just 15 percent strongly approve, both record extremes.

Support has also weakened within his own party. Approval among Republicans has slipped to a new low of 78 percent, and only 19 percent of Republicans say they are enthusiastic about the rest of his term, down sharply from 38 percent last spring. That matters because party enthusiasm often shapes how much political room a president has to push an agenda, especially as lawmakers begin looking ahead to the next election cycle.

Griffin said the midterm outlook is not encouraging for Republicans. "The midterms don't look great for Republicans," she said. "I think it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that the House is going to flip, but I think it's in the back of his mind that the Senate very much looks like it may stay in Republican hands. It could flip, but there's not some overwhelming wave, I think, that he's expecting, and I think that gives him some hope that there is going to be this balance of power where he still may have Republican control in the Senate, yet lose the House to Democrats."

The poll also found that 28 percent approve of Trump’s handling of Iran, 25 percent approve of his handling of inflation and 21 percent approve of his handling of gas prices. Only about a quarter of Americans say he has a clear plan for the Iran conflict, and 62 percent say he is not an effective world leader. Those numbers underscore why the White House faces pressure to narrow its message around the economy, even as foreign policy and cost-of-living concerns continue to shape public opinion.

Primary source: CNN poll on Donald Trump, midterms and Iran war