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ABC/Washington Post, NBC/Wall Street Journal and Gallup released
polls over the weekend that showed President Trump has failed to improve his
poor approval rating during the first 100 days. In fact, his ratings declined
after a weak start and remain in the cellar.
Although Trump cherry picked a couple of positive numbers, he
declared, in general, they were “fake news.”
Unfortunately for the poll sensitive President heading into his
100-day report card, more than half the public disapproves of his performance,
and his approval at slightly more than 40 percent is below even the weak
general election vote he received (46%). Of the biggest concern among national
Republican leaders is the flat trend line, even with a White House receiving saturation
coverage and a few popular items being accomplished, including the Neil Gorsuch
confirmation and the missile strike against President Assad in Syria.
Although Trump holds his core base of voters, they are less
than a third of the total electorate. His other advantage at this point is the
Democrats are even less popular than Trump and Republicans.
Nonetheless, he is still described by the public as
seriously lacking the judgement (41% yes has judgement, 56% no), and personality
and temperament to be president (38% yes has temperament, 59% no) (
ABC/WP). In
terms of the first 100 days, most people say Trump was “off to a poor start
(45%) or a “fair start” (19%). Only one-third of the public (35%) said he was
“off to a “good or great start” (
NBC/WSJ).
See:
Politico:
Trump blasts recent approval rating polls as “fake news”
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