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Poll: Trump's six-month approval rating hits historic low
By Rebecca Morin 07/16/2017
Thirty-six percent of those surveyed approve of the president's job performance. | Getty
President Donald Trump has hit the lowest approval rating of any president during their first six months in office in 70 years, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll.
Thirty-six percent of those surveyed approve of the president's job performance, which is six points down from his 100-day mark, while 58 percent disapprove of Trump's performance.
Gerald Ford was the last president to be near that mark in the poll half-a-year into his presidency, with a 39 percent approval rating in February 1975. At the six-month mark, both former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush were at 59 percent.
In regards to Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer aimed at getting information on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election, 63 percent said his actions were inappropriate.
Sixty percent think Russia tried to influence the 2016 presidential race and 67 percent believe Trump aides helped them.
Trump Jr.'s meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a politically-connected Russian lawyer whom the Trump team believed had damaging information on Clinton in June 2016, has stirred controversy for the White House.
In addition, 38 percent of those surveyed said Trump has not made significant progress toward his goals, with 55 percent thinking otherwise. Two-thirds of respondents also don't trust Trump to negotiate with world leaders on the U.S.'s behalf, specifically Russian leader Vladimir Putin, following the G-20 summit.
Just 27 percent said the U.S.'s world leadership has gotten stronger under Trump, while about half said it's gotten weaker.
The poll was conducted by landline and cell phone from July 10 to 13 in both English and Spanish among a random sample of 1,001 adults with a margin of error of 3.5 points.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/16/trump-approval-rating-historic-low-240598
By Rebecca Morin 07/16/2017
Thirty-six percent of those surveyed approve of the president's job performance. | Getty
Thirty-six percent of those surveyed approve of the president's job performance, which is six points down from his 100-day mark, while 58 percent disapprove of Trump's performance.
Gerald Ford was the last president to be near that mark in the poll half-a-year into his presidency, with a 39 percent approval rating in February 1975. At the six-month mark, both former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush were at 59 percent.
In regards to Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer aimed at getting information on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election, 63 percent said his actions were inappropriate.
Sixty percent think Russia tried to influence the 2016 presidential race and 67 percent believe Trump aides helped them.
Trump Jr.'s meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a politically-connected Russian lawyer whom the Trump team believed had damaging information on Clinton in June 2016, has stirred controversy for the White House.
In addition, 38 percent of those surveyed said Trump has not made significant progress toward his goals, with 55 percent thinking otherwise. Two-thirds of respondents also don't trust Trump to negotiate with world leaders on the U.S.'s behalf, specifically Russian leader Vladimir Putin, following the G-20 summit.
Just 27 percent said the U.S.'s world leadership has gotten stronger under Trump, while about half said it's gotten weaker.
The poll was conducted by landline and cell phone from July 10 to 13 in both English and Spanish among a random sample of 1,001 adults with a margin of error of 3.5 points.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/16/trump-approval-rating-historic-low-240598
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I understand. But honestly, life will go on. My life has barely changed since November. In blue states, we are mostly shielded from right-wing policies anyway.
While Trump is a bit embarrassing as President, his antics have made watching TV a lot fun. Late-night talk shows, political satire programs, and SNL are so much fun to watch again. Most of the country is laughing at him. In any case, we are more than halfway done with his first year in office. It's gone by pretty quickly.
It's unlikely that Democrats can re-take the House in 2018, because of GOP gerrymandering. However, if Trump's popularity doesn't drastically improve between now and then, Democrats will make major gains. They can also pick up seats in the Senate, where every vote matters. Democrats can, however, flip many state chambers in 2018---if they run on the right economic policies.
2020 will be the real test, however. To those that dislike Trump the most, I say that they must vote to nominate a strong candidate who understands the needs of the working class this time, and appeals most to voters in Midwestern swing-states. The right candidate will have coattails that will help flip the Senate and allow Democrats to make huge gains in legislative chambers across the country.
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Very true. That's where Obama was strong and had leverage in both his campaigns. His campaign slogans were spot on to take advantage of the financial dilemma the country was facing, especially with the working class you mentioned and of course, minorities. The problem is, the current unemployment rate is at its lowest since 2009. If it stays this way or gets even lower, Dems will have a tough time in '18 and even '20.
Yet to see if Repeal & Replace Obama Care succeeds. This could be the biggest test for the GOP in deciding the next elections.
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So Trump and the Republicans attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare has failed again.
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They knew better than to put it for a vote a 2nd time around with the way things were going.
Now Pence is pushing for just repealing it and then figure a new plan latter. I just don't understand how heartless they can be to just have millions of people lose their health care while they fight out another plan. That idea is much worst than the new plan. Just unfathomable.
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Trump doesn't give a crap what it would do to the average American. The only thing he cares about is obtaining a "win" to boast about to his base. Screw the details...
I don't think Republicans would dare repeal a bill that would force 32 million off their health insurance. I know they voted for it in 2015, but they knew Obama would veto it. Those Repubs would be signing their death warrants.
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Just read the interview Trump gave to the Times. He is simply a disgrace.
He warned Mueller not to look into his family's finances. That is obstruction of justice, and an impeachable offense.
He is an arrogant, delusional, narcissistic, sick man. He needs to undergo a psychological evaluation. I truly believe he has mental problems.
He has no business being anywhere near the Oval Office.
He warned Mueller not to look into his family's finances. That is obstruction of justice, and an impeachable offense.
He is an arrogant, delusional, narcissistic, sick man. He needs to undergo a psychological evaluation. I truly believe he has mental problems.
He has no business being anywhere near the Oval Office.
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I'm wondering how Attorney General Sessions will rationalize staying in the job after having his legs cut out from under him so publicly.
Although the news only very recently broke, so I don't want to speak too soon. Jeff sessions might actually have some dignity and resign.
I also think it's ironic that Trump granted yet another interview to "the failing New York Times"
Although the news only very recently broke, so I don't want to speak too soon. Jeff sessions might actually have some dignity and resign.
I also think it's ironic that Trump granted yet another interview to "the failing New York Times"
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An why did Trump give the 'failing' and 'fake' New York Times an interview? Does that mean the interview is 'fake' news?
What a clown...
Trump tells so many lies, he literally can't keep them straight.
What a clown...
Trump tells so many lies, he literally can't keep them straight.
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Al Gore Breaks With Democratic Party Leadership to Support Single-Payer Healthcare
Eleanor Sheehan
A day after the Republican party’s effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act crumbled, Al Gore spoke at a community college in Manhattan, NY, about his new climate change movie. Completely unrelated to the documentary, however, Gore expressed his support for a single-payer healthcare system.
The Huffington Post first reported Gore’s comments during Tuesday’s event. Breaking with ranking Democrats like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senator Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Gore told the audience that private health insurance has failed to provide accessible coverage for all Americans.
“The private sector has not shown any ability to provide good, affordable health care for all. I believe we ought to have single-payer health care,” Gore said at the event hosted by The New York Times.
As the GOP struggles — despite its Senate and House majority — to come to a consensus on an adequate bill to replace the ACA, some Democrats have gradually moved left and embraced a “Medicare for All” solution. Sen. Bernie Sanders campaigned on the platform and said he would introduce a single-payer bill when the GOP failed to repeal the ACA (he said this in early July).
Sanders’s push is gaining traction. A House Bill introduced by Rep. John Conyers predicated on a single-payer healthcare system now has the majority of House Democrats’ support. The bill has 115 cosponsors, including single-payer advocate and DNC Deputy Chair Rep. Keith Ellison.
Democratic Senators are also joining Sanders in endorsing single-payer. Sen. Elizabeth Warren said “the next step” was single-payer in June. Sen. Kristin Gillibrand has expressed support for single-payer and Sen. Kamala Harris offered a measured backing of the solution.
If the ACA does fail, as President Trump so hopes it does, the Democrats might have a viable option with single-payer — and a third of Americans back it according to a Pew Research Center study released in June (52% of registered Democrats support single-payer, too). It’s such a viable solution, in fact, that Republican Sen. Jerry Moran warned single-payer might happen if the GOP can’t find another way to repeal the ACA; he even said it was probable.
“If we leave the federal government in control of everyday healthcare decisions, it is more likely that our healthcare system will devolve into a single-payer system,” Sen. Moran said in his decision to oppose the GOP’s healthcare bill.
The Democratic Party leadership is reluctant to get on board with Medicare for All, but they may have no other choice and it would certainly help the party with its dwindling popularity and inability to counteract Trumpism.
http://fusion.kinja.com/al-gore-breaks-with-democratic-party-leadership-to-supp-1797040928
Eleanor Sheehan
A day after the Republican party’s effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act crumbled, Al Gore spoke at a community college in Manhattan, NY, about his new climate change movie. Completely unrelated to the documentary, however, Gore expressed his support for a single-payer healthcare system.
The Huffington Post first reported Gore’s comments during Tuesday’s event. Breaking with ranking Democrats like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senator Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Gore told the audience that private health insurance has failed to provide accessible coverage for all Americans.
“The private sector has not shown any ability to provide good, affordable health care for all. I believe we ought to have single-payer health care,” Gore said at the event hosted by The New York Times.
As the GOP struggles — despite its Senate and House majority — to come to a consensus on an adequate bill to replace the ACA, some Democrats have gradually moved left and embraced a “Medicare for All” solution. Sen. Bernie Sanders campaigned on the platform and said he would introduce a single-payer bill when the GOP failed to repeal the ACA (he said this in early July).
Sanders’s push is gaining traction. A House Bill introduced by Rep. John Conyers predicated on a single-payer healthcare system now has the majority of House Democrats’ support. The bill has 115 cosponsors, including single-payer advocate and DNC Deputy Chair Rep. Keith Ellison.
Democratic Senators are also joining Sanders in endorsing single-payer. Sen. Elizabeth Warren said “the next step” was single-payer in June. Sen. Kristin Gillibrand has expressed support for single-payer and Sen. Kamala Harris offered a measured backing of the solution.
If the ACA does fail, as President Trump so hopes it does, the Democrats might have a viable option with single-payer — and a third of Americans back it according to a Pew Research Center study released in June (52% of registered Democrats support single-payer, too). It’s such a viable solution, in fact, that Republican Sen. Jerry Moran warned single-payer might happen if the GOP can’t find another way to repeal the ACA; he even said it was probable.
“If we leave the federal government in control of everyday healthcare decisions, it is more likely that our healthcare system will devolve into a single-payer system,” Sen. Moran said in his decision to oppose the GOP’s healthcare bill.
The Democratic Party leadership is reluctant to get on board with Medicare for All, but they may have no other choice and it would certainly help the party with its dwindling popularity and inability to counteract Trumpism.
http://fusion.kinja.com/al-gore-breaks-with-democratic-party-leadership-to-supp-1797040928
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In 47 states, a smaller part of the population now approves of Trump than voted for him
By Philip Bump
Donald Trump eked his way into the White House last fall on the strength of 78,000 votes in three states. He lost the popular vote by about two percentage points, earning the support of just under 46 percent of voters who cast a ballot.
Since Nov. 8, polling has consistently shown that an even smaller percentage of the country thinks the president is doing a good job. The most recent weekly approval rating average from Gallup, for example, has Trump at 39 percent approval — seven percentage points lower than the support he got at the ballot box.
On Monday, Gallup offered a more detailed set of data. Using interviews conducted over Trump’s first six months in office — during which his approval slipped slightly nationally — Gallup determined the average approval in each of the 50 states.
In 17 states Trump’s approval rating was at or above 50 percent. In 31 states, more people disapproved of his job performance than approved.
Unsurprisingly, those states that view Trump positively are also among those that supported him the most during last year’s election. Some states stick out, though: Texas, where Trump is viewed net negatively; and Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the three states that gave him that crucial 78,000-vote margin of victory.
It’s worth noting that in 47 of the states, Trump’s approval rating is now below the percentage of the vote he received. The three exceptions: Hawaii, Utah and Montana.
Those exceptions give a hint of what’s going on. Utah was unusually lukewarm about Trump’s candidacy, compared with other Republican states, and Hawaii was fervently opposed to Trump. The former case was a reversion to the norm; the latter, a nowhere-to-go-but-up situation.
The more important factor here is that Gallup’s approval polling samples all adults, while voting results are, obviously, just those people who went to the polls. In other words, a lot of people dislike Trump who probably won’t go to the polls in 2020.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ion-now-approves-of-trump-than-voted-for-him/
By Philip Bump
Donald Trump eked his way into the White House last fall on the strength of 78,000 votes in three states. He lost the popular vote by about two percentage points, earning the support of just under 46 percent of voters who cast a ballot.
Since Nov. 8, polling has consistently shown that an even smaller percentage of the country thinks the president is doing a good job. The most recent weekly approval rating average from Gallup, for example, has Trump at 39 percent approval — seven percentage points lower than the support he got at the ballot box.
On Monday, Gallup offered a more detailed set of data. Using interviews conducted over Trump’s first six months in office — during which his approval slipped slightly nationally — Gallup determined the average approval in each of the 50 states.
In 17 states Trump’s approval rating was at or above 50 percent. In 31 states, more people disapproved of his job performance than approved.
Unsurprisingly, those states that view Trump positively are also among those that supported him the most during last year’s election. Some states stick out, though: Texas, where Trump is viewed net negatively; and Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the three states that gave him that crucial 78,000-vote margin of victory.
It’s worth noting that in 47 of the states, Trump’s approval rating is now below the percentage of the vote he received. The three exceptions: Hawaii, Utah and Montana.
Those exceptions give a hint of what’s going on. Utah was unusually lukewarm about Trump’s candidacy, compared with other Republican states, and Hawaii was fervently opposed to Trump. The former case was a reversion to the norm; the latter, a nowhere-to-go-but-up situation.
The more important factor here is that Gallup’s approval polling samples all adults, while voting results are, obviously, just those people who went to the polls. In other words, a lot of people dislike Trump who probably won’t go to the polls in 2020.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ion-now-approves-of-trump-than-voted-for-him/
