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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVoters are really starting to hate Trump, like, everywhere
Donald Trump's disapproval rating is hitting some of its highest marks of his entire tenureincluding its absolute highest mark in one poll.
In the NPR/PBS/Marist poll released Friday, 58% of voters disapproved of the job Trump is doing, an all-time high for the poll. Plus, most of those who disapprove of Trump do so with a white-hot rage. Fully 49% of voters said they "strongly disapprove" of Trump, a number that jumped 8 points since mid-March when 41% strongly disapproved of him. The two groups where that forceful disapproval grew most was among independents, whose strong disapproval of Trump spiked by 10 points since March to 43%, and nonwhite voters, whose strong disapproval jumped 16 points to 57%.
But the NPR/PBS poll is no outlier. Trump's disapprovals are also surging in FiveThirtyEight's aggregate, which on Friday recorded the highest disapproval rating for Trump in over two years at 56.1%. That number represents even more disenchantment with Trump now than during his shutdown debacle of early 2019.
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On top of Trump's epic disapprovals, we continue to see evidence that groups that once voted for Trump, and Republicans more generally, are turning against him. In the NPR/PBS poll, Biden had a dominant 25-point lead on Trump in the suburbs, 60% - 35%, while Trump actually won the suburbs by 4 points in 2016, 49% to 45%.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/26/1956212/-Voters-are-really-starting-to-hate-Trump-like-everywhere?detail=emaildkre
empedocles
(15,751 posts)nicely upward these last months.
shelshaw
(533 posts)Coincidence???
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)AZ8theist
(5,477 posts)As in I can't wait to punch that orange asshole TRAITOR in his vile disgusting face??????????????
Asking for a friend..
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)captain queeg
(10,208 posts)ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)40 percent of the people in this country are complete assholes.
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)...what fraction of that 40.6 strongly approve?
I fear it's probably 90% of that 40%.
Hope not.
denem
(11,045 posts)(Fox poll)
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)Thanks for looking that up! Obviously I was too lazy today to do it myself.
But, back to the point, around 2 in 3 that approve at all, still strongly approve.
That disgusting.
denem
(11,045 posts)Even in the darkest days, the GOP has never got less than 36% of the vote in a (two-party) presidential election, Hoover in '32 got 39.7% (41.2% excluding the Deep South)
For both parties, 35% would seem to be a concrete floor. (In 1912 the GOP split. Taft received 23% and TR 27%)
With today's hyper-polarization, approval is not much more than a cipher for voting intentions. trumps approval has clung closely to 41-2% the entire time. 90%+ of those who approve will vote GOP.
I would settle for trump 'winning' 39.5% of the vote. The worst defeat ever of a sitting president.
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)And, he keeps finding ways to NOT shore up support. He's potentially eroding the other 13%.
denem
(11,045 posts)And there's a number a country-club Republicans becoming spooked by Bill Barr's DOJ.
MF45 is the worst president in history. He should be rewarded with the worst defeat in history. And his little dogs too.
EarlG
(21,949 posts)the closest his approval and disapproval numbers came together looks to be around March/April this year -- right around the time coronavirus was starting to hit big. That was the moment when Trump had the opportunity to rally Americans in a moment of national crisis -- when people were actually willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, and hoped that he would do the right thing.
Most other world leaders took that moment and capitalized on it politically by a) using it as a moment of national unity, and b) actually working to mitigate the crisis as much as possible.
Instead, like everything else in his life, Trump squandered it. He blew the coronavirus response, doubled down on his policy of division, and you can see the result as the approval and disapproval numbers rapidly separate again.
I've heard a number of Republicans squeaking lately about how Trump needs to "act now" to "change course" if he wants to be re-elected, but about four months have passed since Trump's approval and disapproval ratings got the closest together on that chart, and that's all the time he has left to reverse course. Given the way those lines are trending, I think his goose might be cooked already.
What an epic failure on every level.
AnotherMother4Peace
(4,247 posts)EarlG
(21,949 posts)It's a bit like watching the world's worst firemen standing around a burning house tentatively suggesting that the fire chief do something to put it out, meanwhile the fire chief is driving towards the house at 50mph in a tanker filled with gasoline.
littlemissmartypants
(22,694 posts)That twisted response is exactly on target.
AnotherMother4Peace
(4,247 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,694 posts)brush
(53,789 posts)that concerns the well being of others. It's just not there, he doesn't have the empathy gene. It's all about what's good for him.
Like stupidly urging governors to re-open with the virus still raging because he thought it would spur the economy and get him re-elected, which of course shows, which we all know, he doesn't have the smart gene either.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)A consensus decision among Dems to find a way to bar psychopaths narcissists and authoritarians from running in any campaigns that lead to them seizing power and damaging our country. This really needs to be done.
littlemissmartypants
(22,694 posts)As a psychopath, he lives to create chaos and pain. This virus has expeditiously created a wave of sorrow he couldn't have achieved without it. It's the perfect tool for destruction. He, no doubt believes he's hit the lottery. There's no failure. To the psychopath, to hurt is to love. Wrap that hideous concept around your head and you will know exactly how potus feels. It's frightening.
malaise
(269,054 posts)And you ain't see anything yet. Get the snacks and drinks
AZ8theist
(5,477 posts)If he didn't inherit and then squander $400M from daddy, he would be an unknown asshole selling time shares on a street corner in Brooklyn.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,035 posts)He'd be hustling three card monty in Times Square
patphil
(6,182 posts)As a leader, he's an unqualified zero.
Can you imagine what things would look like if he actually took strong, decisive action to carry the nation through this pandemic.
He'd be at 60+% approval, and a shoo-in to be reelected.
As it is, he's too stupid to see an opportunity, even when it's right in his face.
And, this monumental lack of leadership is costing 10's of thousands of Americans their lives.
So, Trump's monument will say, "I don't take responsibility at all".
That's the first, and perhaps the only time, he actually told the truth!
brush
(53,789 posts)for the virus to identify and treat who has it. Not to mention contact tracing, or wearing a mask for God's sake.
His shrunken, little brain thinks if you don't test, there are no new cases.
And this stupendously dumb MFer is the President of the United States. I can't take much more. I'm on the edge.
Many states are spiking again and we are the laughing stock of the world for not being able to corral covid like most of the other countires.
Botany
(70,516 posts)He has given them the go ahead to use the n****r word again.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)Strongly approve is 27%.
So, your number is pretty solid.
Denem looked up the Fox poll, because I was too lazy to do it!
bucolic_frolic
(43,182 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)IronLionZion
(45,457 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)and we saw this coming. There aren't too many people prepared to die for Don the Criminally Negligent Con.
The bigliest loser coming up!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,355 posts)Every sitting Republican is complicit in the death and destruction ongoing in America.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)And it was a massive landslide win for FDR. Hoover won six States.
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)not fooled
(5,801 posts)now what are the pukes gonna do--suppress voting in the suburbs, too?
Paladin
(28,264 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,183 posts)Something like "I'd Like to See a Rabid Honey Badger Stuffed Down His Shorts". Yeah, that'd work for me.