While most national polls have Donald Trump at in the low 40’s…
A new Morning/Consult poll has dropping to 39%…..
With the Trade and Economic jitters, Immigration , Syria and the Government Shutdown on people’s minds?
Could Trump be sinking in approval?
Would a continued erosion of support translate into a sorting of fellow Republican support by GOP lawmakers?
There are those who have said Trump needs a political course correction after the midterm beatdown his party experienced…But true to Trump being Trump?….He has doubled down by digging in for ‘wall’ money that Democrats won’t and can’t agree to….
Days into a partial government shutdown triggered by President Donald Trump’s demand for increased funding for his proposed wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, a new Morning Consult survey finds voters as bearish as ever on the president’s job performance.
In the Dec. 21-23 poll, which began surveying registered voters two hours before some government agencies shut down amid an impasse over wall funding, 39 percent of registered voters — including 80 percent of Republicans — approved of the president’s job performance, while 56 percent — including 90 percent of Democrats and 57 percent of independents — did not.
Those figures match the nadir of the president’s popularity in August 2017 — when Trump responded to the fatal melee between white supremacists and counter-protesters at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., by blaming “many sides.”
The latest national online survey of 1,992 registered voters was conducted amid a hectic news cycle, when Trump made major news on a number of fronts….
Make America Great Again?
…Anyone who thinks Trump is a master politician is wrong. He’s a master illusionist, which isn’t the same thing. Politicians can’t keep pulling rabbits out of empty hats forever. At some point, they face a reckoning, and Trump’s is well underway.
Trump is talented at making it appear that he has more than he really does — more money, more respect, more support. All those campaign rallies before the midterm elections were not just an attempt to save the Republican majorities in Congress or feed Trump’s insatiable ego. They were also demonstrations of the fervor of his core supporters — and implied warnings to Republicans who might cross him.
Trump tries to project an image of immense strength. But it turns out that the man who made “You’re fired!” a television catchphrase can’t summon the nerve to actually dismiss anyone in person. Trump’s bluster camouflages great weakness.
Look at his political standing. Trump won the presidency with 46 percent of the popular vote. (That’s compared to 48 percent for Hillary Clinton, but who’s counting?) His margin in the electoral college, which he tries to portray as a great landslide, was actually quite puny — smaller than either of Barack Obama’s, either of Bill Clinton’s, the late George H.W. Bush’s or either of Ronald Reagan’s wins….
More from Eugene Robinson @ Washington Post…