NORTH KOREA/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has pulled out of a summit with North Korea next month, and Americans are likely not going to be pleased. Unlike a lot that has happened during the Trump administration, Americans were actually happy with the direction Trump was taking on North Korea. Earlier this month, a CNN poll found that 77% of Americans approved of Trump’s decision to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. That included 92% of Republicans, 79% of independents and even 62% of Democrats. In that same poll, Trump’s approval rating among Democrats for his overall job performance was just 9%. Perhaps more interesting is that Trump was gaining overall positive marks for the entirety of his North Korean approach. In the CNN poll, 53% of approved of how he was handling relations with North Korea. That was up from 43% in March and 35% last November. It was also significantly higher than his 41% job approval rating overall and his 42% approval rating on foreign affairs. Indeed, Trump’s approval rating on North Korea was higher than it was for any other issue tested by CNN.”
-Harry Enten, “The collapse of the North Korea summit may have cost Trump his best issue, ” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 24, 2018 1:48 pm