POLITICS 12/06/2018 12:24 pm ET Updated 51 minutes ago “It’s called Presidential Harassment!” Trump tweeted. By Hayley Miller As part of his incessant campaign to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, President Donald Trump on Thursday complained the federal probe was having a disastrous effect on his approval rating. “Without the phony Russia Witch Hunt, and with all that we have accomplished in the last almost two years ... my approval rating would be at 75% rather than the 50% just reported by Rasmussen,” the president tweeted. “It’s called Presidential Harassment!” Trump regularly accuses Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election of being a “witch hunt” despite dozens of indictments against people in connection to the case, including his former national security adviser. But Trump’s claim on Thursday that his approval rating … [Read more...] about Trump Claims His Approval Rating Would Be 75 Percent If Not For Mueller’s Investigation
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Approval ratings for Trump rise to 44 percent
The approval ratings of President Donald Trump are better than they have been for a long time. They are still bad. They are still under water (meaning more disapprovers than approvers). But his current bad disapproval number, according to the average of many polls maintained and calculated by HuffPost, stands at an average of 51.2 percent. Obviously, that’s still above 50 percent. Obviously his approval number (per the Huff Post average) is lower and substantially lower (44.1 percent) than his disapproval number. So don’t uncork the champagne yet, oh ye Trump approvers. You are still outnumbered and by seven percentage points, which is more than a little. Still, I force myself to repeat, Trump’s current disapproval number is the lowest it has been since March of 2017, two months into his presidency and his approval number is the highest since about the same time. I say this with a weird sense of pride, in myself, because, unlike the current incumbent, I believe in … [Read more...] about Approval ratings for Trump rise to 44 percent
Putin scales back pension reform plan as approval rating dips
MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday scaled back plans to lift women's retirement age by eight years to 63 as he offered concessions to a package of pension reforms that have hit his approval ratings. While Putin said the general thrust of the policy was justified given Russia's wider economic and demographic backdrop, he did row back on the planned retirement age for women. In a rare televised address, Putin said the new retirement age for women will be raised to 60 from the current 55, instead of the 63 previously proposed. However, he did not offer to change the proposed figure for men, which is rising from 60 to 65. The changes are supposed to be raised by one year every year over the course of the next five years. The government's plan to raise the retirement age for both men and women was announced in June when most attention in the country was on the soccer World Cup it was hosting, and has caused widespread discontent. Though the proposed changes bring Russia … [Read more...] about Putin scales back pension reform plan as approval rating dips
Fox Poll: Trump Approval Rating Still Underwater
President Donald Trump’s approval rating remains below 50 percent, according to a new Fox poll released Wednesday. Trump’s approval stands at 41 percent, while 57 percent disapprove of the job he’s doing. Trump voters, though, overwhelmingly approve of the job the president is doing (93 percent) while most black voters (13 percent) and Democrats (12 percent) do not. Trump picked up poor ratings on border security 44 percent approve, 51 percent disapprove), immigration (39-57), foreign policy (37-55), healthcare (36-55), race relations (33-58) and international trade (39-53). The poll comes one day after Trump’s former lawyer implicated the president in a hush money scheme. Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal counts and admitted that, “in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office” he kept information from becoming public during the 2016 presidential election. Trump responded to the allegation, saying on Twitter … [Read more...] about Fox Poll: Trump Approval Rating Still Underwater
Trump’s approval ratings: Still underwater, with no significant change
I’ll keep this short because, once again, the monthly update on the ups and downs of President Donald Trump’s approval ratings shows basically nothing by way of ups or downs. Yes, Trump’s ratings are underwater (meaning more disapprovers than approvers). His weekly Gallup numbers show 52 disapproval/42 percent approval. When I wrote a month ago, it was 54/42. Obviously no significant change, which has been the case for more than a year. Likewise, the HuffPost average of many approval polls, as of this morning, shows Trump at 52/43, obviously the same as Gallup or so close to the same as to be insignificant. To repeat what has been the case since I started this farshtunkene exercise, the current incumbent’s approval rating has been bad, below water, since about a week after he was sworn in. But, over the past year and a half, it has shown no significant movement toward the better or the worse. This link will get you a graph of the weekly Gallup numbers, … [Read more...] about Trump’s approval ratings: Still underwater, with no significant change