Forty-one percent of Americans strongly disapprove of the job Donald Trump is doing as president, and 26% strongly approve — almost exactly the same percentages as Gallup found 15 months ago, in the first weeks of his presidency.
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The parity in strong opinions between the two periods parallels similar levels of overall approval, with 42% approving and 53% disapproving in the 2017 poll and 42% approving and 54% disapproving today.
The majority of those who approve and of those who disapprove of Trump say they feel strongly about their opinions, but more who disapprove do so strongly (by a better-than 3-to-1 ratio, 41% to 13%) than is the case for those who approve (less than a 2-to-1 ratio, 26% to 16%).
A total of 67% of Americans have intense feelings about the president — either strongly approving or strongly disapproving of Trump’s job performance. Only three other presidents — George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush — have evoked more intense reactions from the public since Gallup first measured strength of presidential approval and disapproval in 1965…..
So all the “stuff” we read here about how Trumps approval among Republicans is shrinking is garbage?
Sure it is.
Essentially he is right where he was a few weeks after his inauguration.
Not so fast Jack…..
Actuall after he got in office his approval among Republicans dropped DRASTICLY….
It stayed at around +/- 60% for a long time….
The tax cut started a recovery for him among Republicans…
Those numbers HAVE increased recently…But I’d bet that they will drop now that he has has several foreign policy blunders…
Essentially GOPer’s have come to disregard the rough edges on the guy and he has been successful in casting Mueller’s probes as a personal vendetta against him…Link…
You can” bet” what you want.
You can rationalize it any way you want.
As we all know a football game is decided by the score not the various plays that happened during the contest.
The Fact is that Trumps approvals are pretty much where they were when he was inaugurated and this continuing bluster by you and another poster here that Republicans are “ deserting” him( or whatever verb you wish to use to describe this non existent happening )is garbage.
Republicans remain supportive of their Leader and face of the Republican Party,Donald Trump.
Please though continue to regale us with your,uh,
“Bets.”
They come and go Jack…
Check the link….
I’m just giving the reality….
Of course Jack is right. Trump only speaks to his base, and his base is the Republican Party.
They will defend their President against the attacks of Godless Liberals at all costs. Doesn’t matter how corrupt he is or how he has used his office to get rich.
Nope, they love his hate speech and the Republican Members of Congress will continue to protect him. Why even those who claim to be opposed to Trump will continue to make excuses for his racist comments because they know the Republican majority in Congress is tied to Trump’s popularity.
Right now the only Republicans who are willing to be critical of Trump are those who are retiring or those who are seriously ill. Real profiles in courage. So which one of these heroes is going to challenge Trump in 2020?
It is a little ironic to me that the same people who frequently say polls a couple years in advance are meaningless are willing to say conclusively that Trump won’t be primaried. The reality is that we don’t know what will happen in two years. Most of the Republicans aren’t overtly supporting Trump, they are being silent. And just because a politician is silent now doesn’t mean he/she will be silent in 18 months. History will treat kindly a Republican that is willing to stand up to Trump and primary him. There is someone out there that knows that. Obviously, winning the primary will be a challenge – especially not offending the Trump enthusiasts. There were close to two dozen candidates last time, so there is no shortage of possibilities – Flake, Romney, Kasich. It only takes one.
If you’re speaking to me,you will notice that in my reply to your assertion that Trump will be pimaried,I specifically used the term,”right now.”
Of course things could change in two years.I mean that goes without saying really.What I am talking about is the present and the insistence by some(not you) that Republicans are not supporting Trump in the same numbers as earlier when that is demonstrably not true.
Even you questioned whether such a challenge to Trump would be “serious.”
Sure lots can happen in two years,so to reemphasize what I previously said, I am speaking of the political situation as it exists today,not two years hence.
Let me reemphasize (for like the tenth time) that it really gets old to make a statement about the current political scene but have to use”qualifiers”like “right now,”presently,”” as of today” etc.
No one here is clairvoyant ,least of all me.So please can we end this rather silly minutiae whereby anytime me ,or anyone else here for that matter, makes a point or prediction about political events of the future that,of course, they are making such based on the PRESENT situation while implicitly conceding that they are not soothsayers and that,of course, the future scene may be much different that the present.
In other words no one can “predict” the future.We can only speculate based on the information available to us at the moment in time when we are posting.
Well then I guess I still believe that Trump will be primaried despite the fact that Republicans have shown increasingly LESS willingness to challenge Trump as time has gone on. And I say that because a lot will happen in the next two years, and if anything I am less confident that he will be successful than I was a year ago.
I agree with Jack, no one can predict what will happen. After all, the Russia probe could change the political outlook in a very short period of time. That and a Democratic House of Representatives.
But, given that the Republicans (unless, they grow a pair of balls or all come down with incurable diseases) have never really opposed Trump on any issue since his nomination — it is only reasonable to assume that they won’t suddenly oppose Trump now.
Especially since the vast majority are currently ignoring and making excuses for potential financial crimes and treason by our Nation’s Chief Executive.
Nope, given that they have now put their Party over their Country for almost two years now, I don’t expect them to change course anytime soon.
The power of the Presidency is such that it will be really hard for any Republican to challenge Trump and, the wet dreams of some Republican cheerleaders notwithstanding, I seriously doubt that Jeff Flake could get anywhere with a challenge. Even against a wounded piece of shit like Trump. The base simply believes his lies completely. Besides, Flake couldn’t even get re-elected to the Senate let alone President.
I think it is incredibly likely that Jeff Flake would run in a primary against Trump. He seems to be taking the early steps towards that.
Right now the view seems correct that GOPer’s grow balls to publicly knock Trump when they are NOT running again for office….
The majority of the GOP base does support Trump even if they don’t like him personally….
In the past he has displayed the ability to fuck things up on the regular…
I see no reason why in looking at his actions so far that he won’t fuck up again…
Yes, and there are ebbs and flows in a football game…
So?
You are obsessed with “ proving” that Trump is not popular among Republicans.,a demonstrable falsehood .What do you think anyway?That Trump is going to be seriously challenged for renomination?That these anti Trump Republicans are going to vote Democratic?( see CG for the silliness of that type observation) .
Oh that’s right younthink Trump is just going to up and quit one day.Lets play with that.Assuming that was to happen?Likely it would make him a martyr to the cause.What?You think Republicans are going to turn on him and admit,”yeah we were a bunch of idiots?”
You and “reality”are very far apart.
No your comment is not quite correct
I have said
And the polling backs me up in saying that Trump had been losing support….
He’s gain back some
As for 2020?
Incumbent presidents rarely face primary challenges ….But?
If Trump is still in office by 2020?
He maybe so beat up that he could face one and conceively lose…
Oh I’m totally correct.
Donald Trump is overwhelmingly supported by Republicans and your increasingly pathetic attempts to justify this obsession you have that they don’t skows clearly how divorced you are from the “ reality” you always “ claim” to be upholding.
He, he
Of course you are ALWAYS correct Jack!
😳
No not always…
But a Hell of a lot more than you…
Of course Everyone who posts here is more “ Right” than you.
I think and expect that Trump will be challenged in the GOP primaries. But if so, it is Too early to say whether the challenge will be serious.
Right now?I see no reason to believe there will be a serious challenge to an incumbent President with his party approval in the high eighties.
Wait……
38% of Republicans believe that Trump SHOULD be primaried……
FiveThrityEight
Morning Consult/Politico
Yeah – I don’t Know how that compares to other first-term presidents, but it sounds very high to me
If I had to bet I’d say if the election were held again today Trump would pretty much the exact same support from Republicans that he did in Nov. 2016.
The few Republicans who are opposed to Trump are increasingly seen as independents and honestly Governors Hogan and Baker should probably just declare themselves as such.
Yes, I agree.
This is my perspective:
Among the sizable number of Republicans who did not vote for Donald Trump in 2016, or who did so with very high reservations, many of them now approve of the job he is doing and are committed to voting for him in 2020. (I am not one of them and “Never” will be.)
I think that more than makes up for whatever Democrats who voted for him in 2016 have now changed their minds.
That is why his somewhat anemic approval numbers or not, he as an incumbent, is in much better shape for 2020 than he ever was in 2016.
Obviously, a ton can happen between now and then. I also will maintain that there is sizable room in the Republican Party for those who want an alternative, as it relates to various issues, or honesty, character, whatever, and I hope there will a way for longtime Republicans like me to fight for that option before the general election begins.
Sounds about right CG….
My question is what happens after the Mueller Throwdown
And?
Can Trump screw things up on his own?
The turbulence makes almost anything possible…