New Trump Poll: Nobody Wants This!

[EarlG]

Quinnipiac released a new poll today showing Trump under water on every single issue, and his approval rating has slipped into the danger zone of the 30s where presidents really start to lose power within their own party (because mathematically, the only way to get into the 30s in our two-party duopoly is to lose people within your own party). Trump’s job approval rating currently sits at just 38 percent. Immigration, the subject the braindead popularists in the Democratic Party think we should surrender to Trump, is a double-digit net disapproval issue for the president now, with just 43 percent approving versus 54 percent disapproving in this generic topline figure that Matt Yglesias seemed certain was immovable in a now-deleted tweet he’d love you to forget about.

Trump’s approval on trade is near-catastrophic, garnering just 38 percent support against 57 percent who disapprove just as its price hikes begin to take root in places like Walmart. And the big, beautiful bill whose mere passage through the House got America’s credit downgraded, is wildly unpopular with Independents, 57 percent of whom oppose it versus just 20 percent on board with taking healthcare away from people to partially pay for the wealthy’s tax cuts.

Nobody wants this!

Just 18 percent of Republicans endorse the signature aspect of this bill, decreasing funding for Medicaid. A majority (56 percent) think it should remain the same while more Republicans (21 percent) want to increase funding for Medicaid than to decrease it. No wonder Josh Hawley wet his pants over Medicaid cuts in that NYT op-ed. Nobody wants this!

https://www.splinter.com/new-trump-poll-nobody-wants-this

[senseandsensibility]

1. I am all in on celebrating this poll

We'll never reach most maga FAUX watchers. But we're reaching almost everyone else.

[newdeal2]

2. The only thing DC pols worry about more than Trump's wrath

Are polls. If they sense they’re in danger, it’s possible they will start reigning him in a bit.

[senseandsensibility]

4. Absolutely

plus the average voter who doesn't follow politics much wants to be on the "winning" side.

[quakerboy]

21. Unless he can reassure them that its not an issue

Either via control of future election results or just moving straight to the no more elections part of the republican plan

[tulipsandroses]

3. Yeah, it will be interesting to see if Republican weasels try to distance themselves from him

I actually think the protests and trump over reaching is not going to work out in republican favor. Forget Newsmax and Faux news viewers.
Forget the people that held up mass deportations signs. For others, this is not a good look. Furthermore, as more stories are shared online, it exposes their lies about " dangerous criminals". Raiding workplaces, staking out schools, graduations, maternity wards - chasing someone in a field working on a farm?? Was he a danger to the vegetables and farm animals?
Maybe, I am being too optimistic, but perhaps their over reach will wake people up and push for real immigration reform. People here working, paying taxes, contributing to their communities belong here.

[love_katz]

19. Yeah, ICE is not going after dangerous criminals or gang members.

Over here, at DU, we have known all along that the chasing down immigrants is about rascism and xenophobia for his gullible base.
How do we know this? Gang members and violent criminals tend to have guns, which makes them harder to arrest, and criminals don't go to immigration hearings nor the check-in appointments that green card holders are expected to go to.
To anyone with a functioning brain, it's obvious what is really going on: spectacle for the rubes and haters who are his base. Little children, nursing mothers, waitresses and farm workers are not the dangerous gang members and criminals that Krasnov and company want to depict them as.

[tulipsandroses]

20. Remember when they were railing about " catch & release "?

Saying how Obama and Biden would do catch & release and most of those people don’t show up for their hearings? Another lie.

[IbogaProject]

34. Worse they are releasing actual criminals

They are really deporting regular migrants, labor organizers and some criminals who aren't associated with police informants. But they are also releasing actual criminals from what I've heard.

[speak easy]

5. Josh Hawley is no fool.

Malevolent? Yes. Stupid? No. His $15 minimum wage Bill shows he is already thinking beyond Krasnov. Disclaimer: I would have run away from a violent mob, too,

[Rebl2]

12. He knows

it will go no where in congress, but he can say he tried. He’s one of my ahole senators.

[GenThePerservering]

13. Doubt you would have first egged them on with a raised fist, though.

That's what made his running away so funny.

[speak easy]

14. : you know it :

[tonkatoy8888]

30. Josh Hawley

is an absolute shit (he's my senator). Josh Hawley is just as big a fascist as everyone else in the GOP.

I would not walk across the street to piss on Josh Hawley if he were on fire.

Josh Hawley just wants to take a different route to destroying democracy in the US. He is following the Orban plan rather than the ham-handed Putin approach. Hawley's plan is to "give" people things in order to keep them onside and to reduce the chance that people will resist the tearing down of democratic norms, judicial independence, and legislative balances.

This is why he supports a higher minimum wage and Medicaid. He'd rather get busy destroying democracy without people rioting in the streets. This is why he yammers on about the GOP being the "party of working Americans."

Josh Hawley is an asshole, a fascist, or any other invective you'd like to hurl at him. He just isn't as stupid as Dear Leader and the gang of ignorant sycophants who surround him.

Josh is just looking for a more ordered, technocratic means of erasing democracy.

[speak easy]

33. I thought think you said he was stupid.

That is what I was saying. 'No fool.'

[usonian]

6. Hey, EarlG, congratulations on 23,000 posts (and a bit more)

You bring up a great point.

Dump got a free ride from bankers and tech bro's, but the latter are bigly expressing regret
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220378706
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/topstories/musk-vs-trump-is-a-cautionary-tale-for-silicon-valley/ar-AA1GiZfR

One word of advice for those in Silicon Valley who followed Musk’s lead and sided with Trump. Leave. Don’t delude yourself that you are working to make crypto a part of global finance, minimising artificial intelligence regulation, helping start-up companies or protecting the interests of Silicon Valley. You have no sway. You are just cannon fodder.

Completely predictable. He rolled in the hay with the tech bros, got his hacked election, got his entree into the slimy world of crypto and "Thanks for the ride, my true love is the maga troglodytes. And money., money, money. I can do without you very well"

Bankers? Leonard Leo? People say that Gemini's and Leo's (using the term loosely) make wild passionate partners. Not much about the breakups.

[ffr]

7. Not just "A bill." It's "a SPENDING bill." This is a "GOP SPENDING bill," written by the GOP without

consultation or input from democrats on projects that the GOP wants. The SPENDING bill as proposed, requires taxpayer dollars and an increase of our public debt in order to pay for everything the GOP wants to SPEND money on.

[ananda]

8. I needed this news!

The troops and the violence and the mass
kidnapping of immigrants was REALLY
getting me down.

I'm still a bit down, but this helps.

[Cha]

9. TY Kick for some

Reality showing Up in the polls.

Whether Traitor cares or not. Putin’s his boss Not the American people.

🕯️🕊️💙🌈🌊🇨🇦💛💙

[elleng]

10. 'Trump under water on every single issue, and his approval rating has slipped into the danger zone of the 30s where

presidents really start to lose power within their own party!!!!

[orangecrush]

11. And the lunatics still are not stopped

It gets worse every day.

[ShazzieB]

15. It's WONDERFUL to see him losing support in the GOP!

Surely some of the Republican pols are starting to see how this could affect their reelection chances. If anything can motivate them to stand up to him, surely it would be that. That gives me a little bit of hope!
💙 🐦 💙 🦋 💙 🐦 💙 🦋 💙 🐦 💙 🦋 💙 🐦 💙

[Pinback]

16. Great writing, thanks.

I’m following Jacob Weindling’s Substack now. Appreciate the introduction.

[Martin68]

17. He's running on momentum now. When the runs out, he's dead in the water. If he declares a national emergency or

tries to impose martial law, that will make or break his thrust towards a dictatorship.

[mdbl]

18. He's an asshole who is also a lame duck

I don't think he gives a crap about any poll - or American for that matter. He's going to destroy as much as he can on his revenge tour while enriching himself at the same time as much as he can. I wouldn't expect anything less of him.

[B.See]

22. He doesn't care because he figures

he and his fascists and loyalists are in control now.

Government hobbled, sycophants in control of Congress, supreme court in complicity, figureheads and yesmen in military command, far-right extremists in law enforcement...

It's why he told his own voters they'd never have to vote again.

And IF there was another vote, I highly doubt they'd acknowledge it or leave peacefully.

[spooky3]

29. I agree, but his enablers DO have to be concerned about polls

at some point. They face reelection challenges.

[Clouds Passing]

23. The gqp is going to lose a wad of the big health industry donors.

[William769]

24. This is all good & everything but

How is he still getting away with all his bullshit?

[spooky3]

27. 1) Murdoch propaganda; 2) MSM sanewashing; 3) a lot of our

Fellow citizens pay no attention to the news; 4) a lot are hateful and ignorant and LIKE what they think is happening.

[William769]

31. Thanks

[spooky3]

38. YW

[Peacetrain]

25. You have made my day!!!!

[spooky3]

26. KNR - I'm looking forward to polls after this weekend's protests. Nt

[Initech]

28. What he's doing to my city is fucking criminal!

[BobTheSubgenius]

32. I have little doubt that these numbers are true and accurate, but, as always...

....I'm left wondering how his numbers can possibly be this high.

[TBF]

35. Our military will need to act - there is no other way

If they are not afraid to attack US Senators, they will not stop until they are stopped by the people who have the power to do it.

[red dog 1]

37. Except for the fact that unlike VonShitzInPantz's first term as POTUS, "our military" is now in the hands of hand-picked

MAGA generals, admirals, and an alcoholic MAGA defense secretary.

There are no high-level military leaders left to "keep the bastard in check".

[red dog 1]

36. K&R

Speaking of Sen. Josh Hawley,
(From MSNBC)
"Suddenly, he sounds like a pro-union Democrat. Where was he during the years we fought to expand health care access for working families?
Where was his voice when we championed higher wages and economic dignity for the very people he now claims to defend?
Even more striking is the record he hopes we forget.
When that very senator was a state attorney general and a U.S. Senate candidate, he opposed a ballot initiative that would have gradually raised the state's minimum wage from $7.85 to $12 an hour."