62% disapprove

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By STEVE PEOPLES and HANNAH FINGERHUT
yesterday

... Just 36% of Americans approve ... 62% disapprove ...

Trump’s approval .. has never dipped below 32% or risen above 42% in AP-NORC polls since he took office ...

... 36% approve of Trump on gun policy, while 61% disapprove ...

Seven in 10 Republicans express approval of Trump’s handling of gun policy ...

Nearly 8 in 10 Republicans approve .. overall .. while 20% disapprove ... 94% of Democrats disapprove ...

https://apnews.com/urn:publicid:ap.org:1ad13f32984a4480a45738ead2b4c0d8

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1. Lowest since January

BY ASHER STOCKLER ON 8/22/19 AT 1:50 PM EDT

... the coveted class of self-identified political independents remains opposed to the president, with 65 percent disapproving ...

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-approval-rating-ap-poll-1455751

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2. Rumor he wants Haley as 2020 running mate

... rumors have picked up .. in Republican .. circles that Trump wants to replace the former Indiana governor ...

... Haley sent out a tweet Wednesday ...

"Enough of the false rumors,” she wrote. "Vice President Pence has been a dear friend of mine for years. He has been a loyal and trustworthy VP to the President. He has my complete support" ...

Bill Kristol .. isn’t buying ...

“Well, that’s one way to dispel ‘false rumors’ -- broadcast them to your 450,000 followers, 98% of whom had never heard the rumors,” Kristol wrote on Twitter. “And the rumor isn’t that Haley dislikes Pence, which is what she addresses. It’s that Trump would like to dump Pence. Which Haley can’t really address” ...

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/08/donald-trumps-approval-rating-collapses-in-new-poll-boosting-rumor-he-wants-nikki-haley-as-2020-running-mate.html

[jcgoldie]

3. I can't see why Haley would do it

With Trump's numbers this would most likely be career suicide.

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4. Claims higher job approval than polls found

By John Wagner and Scott Clement
August 23 at 9:01 AM

... Trump on Friday claimed.. 94 percent of Republicans approve of the way he is handling his job ...

A Monmouth University poll released Thursday found 84 percent of Republicans approve of Trump’s job performance, while an AP-NORC poll found that 79 percent do. His highest recent approval mark among fellow Republicans was 88 percent in a Fox News poll of registered voters earlier this month ...

The Monmouth poll released Thursday found Trump’s overall job-approval rating to be 40 percent among adults overall and 41 percent among registered voters, while a recent Fox News poll found it to be 43 percent among voters ...

In the Monmouth poll, only 3 percent of Democrats said they approve of the way Trump is handling is job, while Fox News poll found that 7 percent approve ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-claims-higher-job-approval-among-republicans-than-recent-polls-have-found/2019/08/23/0e6c68c8-c599-11e9-9986-1fb3e4397be4_story.html