Trump, Ryan Both Hit Record Low Approval

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http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2017/03/trump-ryan-both-hit-record-low-approval.html

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Health Care:

The upshot of last week's health care debate is that the Affordable Care Act is now the most popular it's ever been in our polling, with 52% of voters approving of it to only 37% who disapprove. By contrast there is only 23% support for the American Health Care Act, with 56% of voters in opposition to it. Asked which of the two plans voters prefer, the Affordable Care Act wins out by 21 points at 49-28. At this point just 32% of voters think the best path forward on health care is to repeal the ACA, with 62% saying they'd rather keep it and fix whatever needs to be fixed in it.

Donald Trump blamed the failure of the AHCA last week on Congressional Democrats, but voters aren't buying that. Just 31% think Democrats are responsible for the bill's failure, to 52% who pin the blame on Congressional Republicans. Trump may be losing out to Democrats on this issue, but he's coming out ahead on the health care blame game within his own party. Overall voters blame Paul Ryan more than Trump for the failure of the AHCA, 42/33. But specifically among GOP voters, 54% blame Ryan to only 13% who pin the blame on Trump.

This issue has made Paul Ryan into the most unpopular politician in the country. At the start of the Trump administration he had a 33% approval rating, with 43% of voters disapproving of him. Now his approval has plunged to 21%, with his disapproval spiking all the way up to 61%. Ryan's particularly seen his image crater with Trump voters- what was a 53/23 approval rating with them in mid-January is now negative at 35/41.

Congress as a whole isn't doing too well in the wake of the health care discussion, with its approval rating as a body standing at 11%, with 68% of voters disapproving of it. Mitch McConnell has a 19% approval rating, with 54% of voters disapproving of him but for the first time ever that at least gives him a better net approval rating than Ryan has. Democrats lead the generic Congressional ballot 48-43 at this early point in the cycle.


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[smirkymonkey]

1. K&R

[EarthFirst]

2. At quick glance, I thought this might have been about their golf game...

Until I finished the sentence.

[beam me up scottie]

3. FAKE NEWS!!!

Isn't that what people claim when they don't like poll results?

[beam me up scottie]

4. This is interesting:

We took an early look ahead to 2020 and how Trump would match up right now against some hypothetical Democratic opponents for reelection. He trails Joe Biden 54/40, Bernie Sanders 52/41, Elizabeth Warren 48/43, Al Franken 46/41, and Cory Booker 45/42 in head to head match ups. Biden (56/33 favorability) and Sanders (53/36) are among the most popular political figures in the country. Voters are more divided on Warren (42/39) and Franken (34/34).

Warren, Biden and Sanders probably won't run but Franken and Booker might.