He bleeds Republican support

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BY ABIGAIL TRACY
OCTOBER 26, 2017 11:06 AM

... Nine months into his presidency, just 38 percent of voters approve of the president, a new low in surveys conducted by Fox.

A remarkable 83 percent of Republican voters still approve of Trump, compared to just 7 percent of Democrats. But while his overall support among conservatives has remained steady, Fox News also found that the president's support among two critical demographics is slipping—which could portend serious problems for the president and the G.O.P. in 2018 and 2020. Among white evangelical Christians, Trump's approval rating slipped to 66 percent from 74 percent last month. His support among white men without a college degree dropped a whopping 12 points, to 56 percent. During the 2016 election, white evangelical Christians and working-class white men overwhelmingly voted for Trump ...

... the Trump-G.O.P. agenda hasn't proved particularly popular. Trump’s approval is underwater on his handling of health care, North Korea, Iran, the economy, and taxes, according to the Fox News poll. Other recent polls have showed anemic Republican support for the party’s tax-reform plan, which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan have described as must-pass legislation ...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/donald-trump-support-key-republican-voters

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1. Polls Suggest Trump and the GOP Wont Get Away With This

By Eric Levitz

Blue America’s greatest fear about the Trump era (after nuclear annihilation, anyway) is probably that the president and his party are going to get away with all of it: trying to make health care more expensive for much of their own base; letting banks fleece their customers and coal companies contaminate their neighbors' water; the callous, inept response to Puerto Rico; coddling white supremacists; betraying core U.S. allies; running the EPA as a fossil-fuel-industry think tank; insulting war widows; selling their legislative agenda to the highest-bidding libertarian billionaire; elevating cruelty toward the vulnerable into a patriotic duty — and at the end of the day, they won't face consequences for any of it ...

... poll aggregators FiveThirtyEight and RealClearPolitics both show that Trump’s average approval rating has fallen significantly since mid-September — while the Democratic Party’s advantage in the generic congressional ballot has increased over the same period.

Meanwhile, a recent CBS News poll found that only 18 percent of Americans believe that Trump’s tax plan favors the middle class — despite the president’s incessant claims that it does. By contrast, 58 percent told the network that the president’s plan favors the wealthy. This is a problem for the GOP: A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 75 percent of Republican voters believe that deficit reduction should be prioritized over tax cuts for the rich. Unsurprisingly, that poll found that fewer than a third of Americans who had heard about the Republican tax plan supported it ...

... during the fight over Obamacare repeal, polls also found the president losing his war against reality: No matter how many times Trump promised that his health-care plan didn’t actually cut Medicaid or erode protections for people with preexisting conditions, voters understood that their interests weren’t being served. By the time Republicans pulled the plug on Trumpcare, it was the most unpopular piece of major legislation in modern memory ...

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/10/new-polls-suggest-trump-and-the-gop-wont-get-away-with-this.html