ELECTION/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump delivers his second State of the Union address on Tuesday [2-5-19] night at a moment of major political peril. A POLITICO/Morning Consult poll conducted in the run-up to the speech shows a majority of voters, 52 percent, say they would definitely vote for someone other than Trump if the 2020 election was held today — up from 47 percent last week — with another 6 percent saying they would probably vote against him. Just more than one-in-four voters, 26 percent, say they would definitely vote to reelect Trump, and another 10 percent say they would probably vote for him. The POLITICO/Morning Consult poll finds the president’s approval rating at 41 percent. Since the start of this year — when the news was dominated by the government shutdown over Trump’s planned border wall — his approval rating has hovered around 40 percent.”
–Steven Shepard, “Poll: More than half will definitely vote against Trump,” Politico, February 5, 2019 4:37 pm