ELECTION/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As speculation for 2020 begins to heat up, a little more than 3 in 10 Americans want to see President Donald Trump win a second term in the White House, according to a new poll. A Monmouth University poll out Wednesday found that though the president’s approval rating stands fairly steady at 43 percent, only 37 percent of registered voters want to see him reelected, compared to 58 percent of voters who want someone new in the Oval Office come January 2021. Those who don’t want to see Trump reelected predictably varies by party, but 16 percent — not an insignificant number — of Republicans say Trump should be a one-term leader, according to the poll, while 92 percent of Democrats and 58 percent of independents said the same. The Monmouth poll, which was conducted from Nov. 9-12, shortly after last week’s midterm elections, also asked respondents how they would like a new, divided Congress to function in relation to the president. The vast majority (72 percent) of the public said they wanted it to be either a major or minor priority of Congress to act as a check on the president. While Democrats and independents were mostly unified in their belief that Congress should keep Trump in line, even 54 percent of Republicans said that it should at least be a minor priority.”
–Caitlin Oprysko, “Poll: Trump has little support for reelection bid,” Politico, November 14, 2018 12:03 pm