A new AP-NORC poll finds nearly a year into President Donald Trump’s second term, his work on the economy hasn’t lived up to the expectations of many people in his own party.
In RealClearPolitics’ straightforward polling averages, Trump’s net job approval dropped from minus-8.6 percent on January 9 to minus-13.2 percent a week later. Silver Bulletin’s more nuanced averages place his net approval at pretty much the same place: minus-13.1 percent. At the relatively new FiftyPlusOne site, Trump’s net approval is all the way down to minus-16 percent. The freshest polling is unusually negative, with CNN showing minus-19 percent net approval (40 percent approval, 59 percent disapproval). Marist is showing minus-18 percent net approval (39 percent approval, 57 percent disapproval), and Reuters-Ipsos is showing minus-17 percent net approval (41 percent approval, 58 percent disapproval). For a while now, even Trump’s favorite polling outlet, Rasmussen Reports, has placed his job approval well underwater (net approval is minus-8 percent now).
I think his approval rating is close to reaching its floor. It could maybe fall down to somewhere between 37 and 33% and then that’s the lowest it goes. That many people are just hardcore believers and will never stop supporting him. They will be talking about Trump for the next few decades no matter what happens to him.
When he dies they are going to think it was faked and will be talking about Trump sightings 50 years from now the way loonies talk about Elvis sightings.
Nevermind that it would mean Trump would be 130 years old, reality isn’t the world they live in.
In the link I sent, his approval average hasn’t moved more than .2% in the last week. RCP is actually showing a higher approval rating than my linked one from Nate Silver. If there’s any meaningful difference it just looks like it’s because RCP has a shorter time window they average over.
His net approval rating in our average dropped from -12.0 on Monday to -12.9 today.
RCP is actually showing a higher approval rating than my linked one from Nate Silver.
I think the important part is that the RCP one is also headed down
In RealClearPolitics’ straightforward polling averages, Trump’s net job approval dropped from minus-8.6 percent on January 9 to minus-13.2 percent a week later.
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The freshest polling is unusually negative, with CNN showing minus-19 percent net approval (40 percent approval, 59 percent disapproval).
Public opinion might change in a week when we get distracted with the next thing, and I think either way it’s going to have to get a lot more intensely negative to have any kind of impact, but I think at least there is good reason to believe that most Americans are upset by the murder of Renee Good specifically and ICE brutalizing the country generally
That page is still showing his average dropping a whole point in less than a week, and it seems like almost everyone else is showing an even more pronounced slide (arc)
I think his approval rating is close to reaching its floor. It could maybe fall down to somewhere between 37 and 33% and then that’s the lowest it goes. That many people are just hardcore believers and will never stop supporting him. They will be talking about Trump for the next few decades no matter what happens to him.
When he dies they are going to think it was faked and will be talking about Trump sightings 50 years from now the way loonies talk about Elvis sightings.
Nevermind that it would mean Trump would be 130 years old, reality isn’t the world they live in.
In the link I sent, his approval average hasn’t moved more than .2% in the last week. RCP is actually showing a higher approval rating than my linked one from Nate Silver. If there’s any meaningful difference it just looks like it’s because RCP has a shorter time window they average over.
In the link you sent
I think the important part is that the RCP one is also headed down
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Public opinion might change in a week when we get distracted with the next thing, and I think either way it’s going to have to get a lot more intensely negative to have any kind of impact, but I think at least there is good reason to believe that most Americans are upset by the murder of Renee Good specifically and ICE brutalizing the country generally
We really need him to break through the 40% approval threshold. That’s where impeachments tend to happen.