He don’t Care….
His Party members DO…..
After a spate of bad polls earlier this summer, President Trump simply declared that they were not true. “MY REAL POLL NUMBERS ARE THE HIGHEST THEY HAVE EVER BEEN,” he wrote on social media, using capital letters as if they would shout away any contrary data.
In fact, his real poll numbers are at or near the lowest they have ever been in some nonpartisan surveys. A flurry of new samples in recent days found that Mr. Trump is at the nadir of his presidency, with support from just around a third of Americans as a stalemated war in Iran and high gas prices take a political toll.
The latest surveys indicate that Mr. Trump is now all but the most unpopular second-term president at this stage of their tenure in the history of polling going back to the 1940s. The only exception is not one that would give Mr. Trump much solace: Richard M. Nixon had even less public support at this stage in his second term but at that point he was just days away from resigning over the Watergate scandal.
These kinds of poll numbers would throw a normal White House into panic mode, especially coming just three months before a midterm election. Someone might be fired. A speech might be written. A new set of policies might be devised. But Mr. Trump has never been a normal president, and he does not react to political circumstances in the same way his predecessors have. Through force of will and command over his MAGA base, he has traditionally played a weak hand strong….
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Still, the latest numbers are particularly bleak and have Republicans increasingly rattled as they dread a Democratic wave that could cost them the House and possibly even the Senate in November. Mr. Trump has the support of just 34 percent of Americans in CNN’s latest poll, matching his lowest point just after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. He had the approval of just 33 percent in a new AP-NORC survey, tying his lowest since 2017, and 32 percent in Quinnipiac University data, falling to an all-time low in that poll….
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Mr. Trump himself has made clear that he sees a different reality than most independent pollsters and political strategists of both parties — and distrusts results that are not favorable to him.
“Polls are very dishonest, just like a lot of reporters,” he told journalists during a news conference at the Group of 7 summit in France in June. A week later, he made his claim that his approval ratings were “THE HIGHEST THEY HAVE EVER BEEN” on his social media site.
Two days later, on June 26, he cited a survey conducted by his own pollsters putting his approval rating at 50 percent. Not satisfied with that, he then gave himself another 15 points. “Other Polls have my Approval Rating at 65%, and more!” he wrote. “Like Journalists, Honest Pollsters are very rare and hard to find!”…
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