TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has been unpopular his entire tenure and it doesn’t look like that’s changing any time soon.
The most recent polls published late last week showed Trump’s approval rating is hovering around 40 percent and remains safely underwater.
The latest Gallup tracking poll pegged the president’s support at 40 percent on the dot Saturday. Fifty-four percent of Americans, meanwhile, disapproved of the job Trump was doing. The Gallup survey takes a three-day rolling average of daily figures interviewing some 1,500 adults. The margin of errors is plus or minus three percentage points.
Rasmussen Reports, which often finds more positive results for Republicans than other surveying firms, found that Trump’s approval rating among likely voters stood at 44 percent Friday. Fifty-six percent disapproved.
The survey noted that many of the folks who dislike Trump, do so ardently. Just 29 percent of likely voters ‘strongly approved’ of Trump while 46 percent “strongly disapproved,” Rasmussen found.
The poll was taken just ahead of the planned vote on the Republicans’ Obamacare replacement: the American Health Care Act, sometimes called ‘Trumpcare.’ The bill failed in spectacular fashion, the Speaker of the House Paul Ryan pulling the bill Friday after it became apparent the GOP didn’t have enough votes in the party for its own bill.”
-Tim Marcin, “DONALD TRUMP’S LATEST APPROVAL RATING DIPPED AS PRESIDENT’S ‘TRUMPCARE’ BILL STRUGGLED,” Newsweek online, March 27, 2017 9:35am