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56%
A new Pew Research poll finds that President Trump’s overall job approval is much lower than those of prior presidents in their first weeks in office: 39% approve of his job performance, while 56% disapprove. “The intensity of the public’s early views of Trump is striking: Fully 75% either approve or disapprove of Trump strongly, compared with just 17% who feel less strongly. Nearly half (46%) strongly disapprove of his job performance, while 29% strongly approve.”
49%
A new Des Moines Register poll finds 42% of Iowans approve of the job President Trump is doing, while 49% disapprove. “Trump won Iowa on his way to the White House by 9 percentage points in November, his widest victory among states believed by many to be swing states.”
46% to 46%
A new Public Policy Polling survey finds that just three weeks into Donald Trump’s administration voters are already evenly divided on whether to impeach Trump, with 46% in favor and 46% opposed. Support for impeaching Trump has crept up from 35% 2 weeks ago, to 40% last week, to its 46% standing this week.Trump’s approval rate is now 43% to 53%.
54%
The Gallup daily tracking poll finds President Trump’s approval rate at 42% to 54% disapprove.
53%
A new CNN/ORC poll finds that 53% of Americans disapprove of the way the president is handling his job, “marking the highest disapproval for a new elected president since polls began tracking those results.” That’s up 13 points from just a week ago.
42% to 51%
According to Gallup’s daily tracking poll, President Trump’s approval rate is now 42% to 51%, which means it only took eight days for the majority of Americans to disapprove of Trump’s performance as president.
45%
A new Gallup survey finds President Trump’s approval rating at 45%, the lowest initial approval rating in the modern polling era.
Before Trump, only four men became president without winning a plurality or majority of the popular vote. Only one lost a greater percentage of the vote than Trump. Three of them served only one term. Three assumed office under clouds of illegitimacy. Each of these presidents, raised to the office against the popular will, was marked by the defect of their election. None evaded the debility of their unpopular elections. Either they were so politically hampered they lacked credibility and could do little, or else they tried to defy their original sin by governing as though they had solid mandates and disintegrated.
40%
Donald Trump will become president Friday with an approval rating of just 40%, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll, the lowest of any recent president and 44 points below that of President Obama. “Following a tumultuous transition period, approval ratings for Trump’s handling of the transition are more than 20 points below those for any of his three most recent predecessors. Obama took the oath in 2009 with an 84% approval rating, 67% approved of Clinton’s transition as of late December 1992 and 61% approved of George W. Bush’s transition just before he took office in January 2001.”
