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Trump’s approval rating plummets in three key states
By Mark Moore
August 20, 2017 | 3:23pm |
President Trump’s job approval ratings in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — the three key Rust Belt states that helped put him in the White House — are below 40 percent, according to polling data released Sunday.
In Michigan, 36 percent of voters said they approve of the president’s job performance, while 55 percent said they disapprove, the NBC News/Marist polls show.
In Pennsylvania, 35 percent approved and 54 percent disapproved, while in Wisconsin, 34 percent gave a thumbs up and 56 percent a thumbs down.
The polls were conducted beginning on Aug. 13, the day after Trump’s initial remarks about a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., that turned violent.
Speaking from his golf resort in Bedminster, NJ, the president sparked a firestorm of criticism when he blamed the “hatred, bigotry and violence” on “many sides.”
The fallout of those comments appear to be reflected in the poll as six out of 10 voters in those three battleground states said Trump’s conduct has “embarrassed” them.
Sixty-four percent of voters in Michigan and Wisconsin said they are “embarrassed” by his behavior, while 63 percent in Pennsylvania say they are.
In Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, just 25 percent said they are “proud” of Trump. In Michigan, 28 percent said they are “proud.”
Trump carried the trio of states in the 2016 presidential election by a total of 80,000 votes to become the first Republican to win them since the 1980s.
His comments continued to dog him on the Sunday news shows, with GOP Sen. Tim Scott calling on him to learn about the “painful history of racism and bigotry.”
“What the president should do before he says something, is to sit down and become better acquainted, have a personal connection to the painful history of racism and bigotry of this country,” the South Carolina lawmaker said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
Jerry Falwell Jr., one of Trump’s evangelical advisers, defended the president blaming “many sides.”
“He had inside information that I didn’t have,” Falwell, president of Liberty University in Virginia, said on ABC’s “This Week.” “I think he was talking about what he had seen, information that he had that I don’t have.”
The white nationalist groups had said they were protesting the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a city park.
Trump’s approval rating plummets in three key states
By Mark Moore
August 20, 2017 | 3:23pm |
President Trump’s job approval ratings in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — the three key Rust Belt states that helped put him in the White House — are below 40 percent, according to polling data released Sunday.
In Michigan, 36 percent of voters said they approve of the president’s job performance, while 55 percent said they disapprove, the NBC News/Marist polls show.
In Pennsylvania, 35 percent approved and 54 percent disapproved, while in Wisconsin, 34 percent gave a thumbs up and 56 percent a thumbs down.
The polls were conducted beginning on Aug. 13, the day after Trump’s initial remarks about a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., that turned violent.
Speaking from his golf resort in Bedminster, NJ, the president sparked a firestorm of criticism when he blamed the “hatred, bigotry and violence” on “many sides.”
The fallout of those comments appear to be reflected in the poll as six out of 10 voters in those three battleground states said Trump’s conduct has “embarrassed” them.
Sixty-four percent of voters in Michigan and Wisconsin said they are “embarrassed” by his behavior, while 63 percent in Pennsylvania say they are.
In Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, just 25 percent said they are “proud” of Trump. In Michigan, 28 percent said they are “proud.”
Trump carried the trio of states in the 2016 presidential election by a total of 80,000 votes to become the first Republican to win them since the 1980s.
His comments continued to dog him on the Sunday news shows, with GOP Sen. Tim Scott calling on him to learn about the “painful history of racism and bigotry.”
“What the president should do before he says something, is to sit down and become better acquainted, have a personal connection to the painful history of racism and bigotry of this country,” the South Carolina lawmaker said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
Jerry Falwell Jr., one of Trump’s evangelical advisers, defended the president blaming “many sides.”
“He had inside information that I didn’t have,” Falwell, president of Liberty University in Virginia, said on ABC’s “This Week.” “I think he was talking about what he had seen, information that he had that I don’t have.”
The white nationalist groups had said they were protesting the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a city park.
