Trump approval rating falls to lowest point with most favourable pollster Rasmussen Reports

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Trump approval rating falls to lowest point with most favourable pollster Rasmussen Reports


President Donald Trump's approval rating has taken a hit and fallen below 50% in the one poll that has held his numbers above the halfway mark since the beginning of his presidency nearly two months ago.

On Monday 14 March the Rasmussen Reports poll saw Trump's approval rating drop to 47%. This, and his disapproval rating of 53%, marked a six point increase in negative feelings about the job he's doing as president.

The poll's last results – published at the beginning of March – showed Trump with an even 50-50 split in his approval/disapproval rating.

That was down from the 57% approval rating Rasmussen measured on 25 January just following the inauguration.



The latest polls from Rasmussen also showed a widening gap between between those who strongly disapprove and those who strongly approve of Trump's performance. Nearly evenly split in early March around 36%, the numbers for those who strongly disapprove have risen to 42% while those who strongly approve dropped to 31%.

The Trump administration is dealing with several large, politically charged debates such as the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act. On Monday the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said that the Republican's replacement plan for the healthcare law would leave 52 million Americans without health insurance by 2026. During Congressional town halls in recent weeks many Republican House representatives and Senators were pelted with questions and opposition to their proposals to change American healthcare.



Rasmussen Reports has been criticised as a "conservative-leaning polling group" by Time magazine, and it has been described as speaking to a "conservative constituency" and accused of using skewed polling methods. The latest polling numbers are significant because it marks the first time Rassmussen polls have tracked Trump's approval rating dipping below the 50% mark when other polls such as Gallup, Ipsos, and YouGov have tracked it below that point for weeks.

In late February Trump's approval rating struck a historic low for a president's first month in office when an NBC News and Wall Street Journal poll showed him with a 44% approval rating . On 20 March Trump will have been president for exactly two months.

 
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/324202-fox-news-poll-trump-approval-rating-drops-5-points

Fox News poll: Trump approval rating drops 5 points
By Rebecca Savransky - 03/15/17 06:15 PM EDT




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President Trump's job approval rating has dropped 5 points in Fox News surveys since last month.

According to a poll released Wednesday, 43 percent of voters approve of the job the president is doing and 51 percent disapprove.

In February, 48 percent approved and 47 percent disapproved of the president's performance.

The poll also finds that 48 percent of voters feel the economy is getting better, up from 37 percent in an October 2016 poll. Another 29 percent feel like the economy is getting worse, and 19 percent think it's staying the same.

Forty-seven percent of voters approve of Trump's handling of the economy and 45 percent approve of his handling of terrorism.
On immigration, 41 percent approve of how the president is dealing with the issue. Only 35 percent approve of the president's handling of healthcare, and just 33 percent approve of how he is dealing with U.S.-Russian affairs.

A majority of voters, 54 percent, disapprove of the president's revised travel ban, and just 34 percent think the executive order makes the country safer.

When asked about Trump's tweeting habits, just 16 percent of voters said they approved. Half of voters disapprove of the president's tweeting and 32 percent "wish he'd be more careful" with what he tweets.

The poll was conducted from March 12 to 14 among 1,008 registered voters. Its margin of error is 3 percentage points.
 
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-latest-approval-rating-fall-trumpcare-568182

Donald Trump's Latest Approval Rating Dips amid 'Trumpcare' Woes

By Tim Marcin On 3/15/17 at 9:46 AM

Donald Trump, already at a historic low in approval ratings for a new president, hasn't grown any more popular—and the battle over a health care bill to replace the Affordable Care Act doesn't seem to be helping him. A pair of surveys this week showed Trump's approval rating dipped slightly.

The latest data from Gallup's tracking poll showed just 39 percent of Americans approved of the president's performance in the first 50 days or so on the job. That's down from 42 percent over the weekend. Fifty-five percent, meanwhile, disapproved of Trump's performance. Gallup surveyed about 1,500 adults with a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.

The most recent figure from Rasmussen Reports published Tuesday put Trump's approval rating among likely U.S. voters at 46 percent, down from 49 percent last week. Fifty-three percent disapproved. Rasmussen, which typically finds better results for Republicans, sampled 1,500 likely voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.
 
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Trump approval rating sinks to new low

President Trump's approval rating has fallen to 37 percent -- the lowest of his fledgling presidency, according to Gallup. His disapproval rating rose correspondingly, hitting 58 percent.

At this point in his first term, President Obama's approval rating was hovering in the low 60s, while President George W. Bush's was in the mid-50s. (Obama's approval rating would later sink to a low of 40 percent, while Bush bottomed out at 25 percent.)

In fact, Trump's current approval rating is lower than any other commander-in-chief at this point in his first term since Gallup started tracking the issue in 1945, the year Harry Truman took office.

President Bill Clinton hit the 37 percent rating about five months into his first term, in June 1993, and Ronald Reagan dipped below it in January 1983, about a year after he took the oath of office. It took George H.W. Bush more than three years to fall to 37 percent, which he did in June 1992. And Richard Nixon, who resigned at 24 percent, first sunk below 37 percent in the first year of his second term, in August 1973, as the Watergate scandal raged.

The lowest job approval ever recorded by Gallup was 22 percent, the public's assessment of Harry Truman's performance in February 1952, nearly 7 years into his presidency.

Gallup's latest analysis of Trump comes on the heels of a
turbulent first 50+ days, which saw the sudden resignation DIA Director Michael T Flynn amid rumors of Trump campaign collusion with Russia, an unsubstantiated allegation of wiretapping, and a litany of complications for both of the president's travel bans.
 
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