Donald Trump’s job approval rating declines to 38 percent

February 25 07:34 2017

The poll is harsh on Trump in other ways as well: his job-approval stands at 38 percent, the lowest since he took office on January 20.

The poll showed that almost six in 10 people say that President Trump embarrasses them.

More than half of those surveyed also believe that at least one of Trump’s actions as president has been either illegal or unethical. Among voters earning between $25,000 and $150,000 annually, Trump’s approval rating hovered at about 60 percent.

Voters across the country largely oppose several key issues coming from the Trump administration – including enforcing federal laws against marijuana in states where it’s already legal, according to a new Quinnipiac poll released Friday.

Asked to judge the new president’s honesty, with 1 being dishonest and 10 being honest, Trump got a 4.5.

What’s more, Quinnipiac’s polling found that concerns about Trump’s personality that haunted him throughout the campaign have not been ameliorated much.

But a conflicting poll from Pew Research showed the president’s approval rating at just 39%, 16 points below Rasmussen’s survey, which questioned 500 people per night on a three-night rolling basis.

The poll was taken from February 16 – the day after Trump gave a 77-minute, rambling press conference – to February 21 of 1,323 voters nationwide with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.7 percentage points.

Among Democrat voters, 86% said they were more inclined to believe the media than the president, while 78% of Republican voters said that Trump tells them the truth, not the media, according to the poll.

The fact that Americans are embarrassed by their president gives Democrats a powerful tool to argue against Trump’s policies. Job approval ratings for Gov. Tom Wolf (38 percent approve), Sen.

Trump bashes the mainstream media organizations on nearly a daily basis from his Twitter account, branding institutions like the New York Times or news channels like CNN as “fake news” or the “enemy of the American people“.

Demographic breakdowns within the most recent weekly Economist/YouGov poll offer a clearer portrait of sharp racial divisions driving Trump approval and disapproval ratings.

Trump won Tennessee with 61 percent in the November election, but today 51 percent of those surveyed approved of the job Trump is doing.

McClatchy-Marist sampled a split of 81 percent registered voters, with the remainder unregistered American citizens.

The Trump administration continues to divide the nation, as party affiliation is a huge factor regarding who is more trusted: Trump or the media.

The poll has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 3.5-percent.

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Donald Trump’s job approval rating declines to 38 percent
 
 
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