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Polls Show Trump...Has Seen His Approval Rating Plunge To The Basement
POLLS SHOW TRUMP, THE LEAST POPULAR PRESIDENT EVER, HAS SEEN HIS APPROVAL RATING PLUNGE TO THE BASEMENTBY TIM MARCIN ON 9/1/17 AT 10:36 AM
President Donald Trump has not been particularly well-liked since the day he took office—in fact, he has been unpopular among a large slice of U.S. residents for much longer than that—and that doesn't seem to be improving as his presidency progresses. In fact, his approval rating had sunk to tie his lowest-ever figure in Friday's Gallup daily tracking survey.
Trump's approval stood at 34 percent in the Gallup poll Friday, tied for his lowest mark ever—a figure he has hit several times (and as recently as last week)—after having hovered at about 35 percent for most of the week. Trump's disapproval stood at 60 percent in the Gallup survey.
Other polls have not been kind to the former reality star turned leader of the free world. The FiveThirtyEight tracker—which aggregates public polls and creates a weighted average that corrects for quality, recency, sample size and partisan lean—Friday pegged Trump's approval rating at 37.2 percent and his disapproval 57.2 percent. That's not the lowest he has ever been in the tracker—that would be 36.6 percent—but it's close.
According to FiveThirtyEight, Trump is more unpopular than any other president in the history of modern polling at this point in his first term. Former President Gerald Ford—whose popularity plummeted after he pardoned his predecessor Richard Nixon, who resigned in disgrace amid the Watergate scandal—was close: On day 224 of his presidency, Ford's approval rating was 37.4 percent, or 0.2 percentage points better than where Trump stands now, according to FiveThirtyEight.
Even Rasmussen Reports—a survey often criticized for being right-leaning and a firm whose results Trump has touted in the past—pegged Trump's approval rating at just 42 percent Friday. Fifty-six percent disapproved, according to Rasmussen.
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http://www.newsweek.com/polls-show-trump-least-popular-president-ever-approval-rating-plunge-basement-658398
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