Bad Tidings for Trump

The following article by Kenneth T. Walsh was posted on the U.S. News and World Report website December 29, 2017:

Polls show the president reaching all-time lows in his first year in office.

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The final polls of 2017 bear bad tidings for President Donald Trump. He is down in public approval, down in the respect most Americans have for him, and down in voter assessments of whether he will turn out to be a good president. It will be difficult for him to recover, at least when it comes to the traditional ways of assessing presidents.

The RealClearPolitics average of the latest major polls finds that only 39.1 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s job performance, while 56.3 percent disapprove. The range goes from a high in approval of 44 percent and disapproval of 54 percent in the Rasmussen poll, and a low of 33 percent approval and 59 percent disapproval in the Monmouth poll. Trump says these surveys are fake and don’t accurately reflect the intensify and size of his base, although he doesn’t provide evidence that the numbers are wrong. Continue reading “Bad Tidings for Trump”