According to a new poll, el Presidente Trumpo has lost the bump in the approval rating he enjoyed after the State of the Union speech.
From the Hill:
President Trump‘s job approval rating dropped two points in the latest Hill-HarrisX poll, dipping after the bump he appeared to get from his State of the Union address.
Forty-five percent of registered voters contacted Feb. 17-18 said they approved of the way that Trump has been carrying out his official duties, down from 47 percent who said the same on Feb. 7-8.
The majority of voters, 55 percent, said they disapproved of the president’s job performance, up two points from the previous survey.
While Trump’s numbers declined somewhat in the most recent Hill-HarrisX poll, they are still fairly similar to the ratings he has received in the past.
It might be because of the shutdown:
“We saw a little bit of softening, we saw it in our Ipsos-Reuters poll as well, a little bit of softening during the shutdown,” Mallory Newall, research director at Ipsos Public Affairs told Hill.TV on Friday when asked about Trump’s approval rating.
“But his numbers really don’t move that much though,” she added. “He tends to be in the low- to mid-forties, generally speaking, sort of able to withstand whatever events happen.”
I know people are fond of yelling “fake poll!” but this makes sense. I think most Americans thought the shutdown was completely over and Trump won because he had the speech, but then he made that deal, and the emergency declaration, which a lot of people don’t agree with. If you’d rather not believe that Americans disagree with Trump on some things, then yes, I would recommend you yell “fake poll!” in the comments.
Really? How accurate are polls? Seems they can support whatever narrative people want.
I agree with the many comments that these polls are garbage. Even beyond that, the margin of error for this poll claimed by Harris is 3.1%. So the movement of 2 points is statistically meaningless even within the context that the poll is accurate. So this article is simply based on garbage piled on top of garbage.
Political polls aren’t worth the paper they are printed on. Only the gullible rely on polls!!!
I wonder if his dip in approval ratings could have anything to do with him declaring a “national EMERGENCY” and a week later he hasn’t even officially signed the declaration?
Trump signed the national emergency proclamation. The problem is it doesn’t invoke the US Code needed to authorize military spending on the border wall so it doesn’t do anything.
It was signed February 15th.
Why the need to poll every 10 days? Are they trying to find one that they like?
These so-called ‘snapshots’ of public opinion have no real meaning. They’re tantamount to
taking your temperature every thirty seconds. Small variances are to be expected.
“fake poll!” and fyi…they are almost always fake…when was the last time anyone you know was called for a poll?
Maybe, maybe not. The fact that he signed another CR after promising not to; and that CR is an obvious cave certainly pushes his numbers down. Having said that, creating polls to make news in support of a narrative works because too many people are disengaged.
Maybe, maybe not. The fact that he signed another CR after promising not to; and that CR is an obvious cave certainly pushes his numbers down. Having said that, creating polls to make news in support of a narrative works because too many people are disengaged.
Avenatti is going to crush him in 2020.
No it`s all fake polls. I personally have been saying for 30 years that pollsters only manufacture opinion. In 2016 it was not that polling was wrong, it was just made up. Its been made up for 50+ years. It continues to amaze me that so many take each poll as gospel. It`s not even that I like the odd good poll, it`s that they are all bad. There is no science in partisan political polling. Even if you say that a particular pollster is better, the people have already been poisoned by the other polls. They are all garbage
The jails are filled with people that do horrible things, its NOT against the law to put out false polling, nobody goes to jail. Fox News introduces each poll as if its gospel. CNN for instance does not want a good poll for Trump or GOP, they dont have to ask their pollster for poll they want, the pollster knows what their client wants
Unfortunately, for the TDS crew who continue to push polls… what were the polls, besides Rasmussen, reflecting for the 2016 Presidential election?
We’re still 19 months away from the election and the wall is being built… and yes, another cop was shot by an ILLEGAL immigrant in a sanctuary city. The illegal alien had been deported 3 times…
https://www.policeone.com/immigration-and-customs-enforcement/articles/483034006-Police-Man-who-shot-at-Calif-officer-had-been-deported-three-times/
And, American tax payers and land owners along our southern border are spending their own money to protect their property. They are also demanding a strong border WALL.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/after-government-fence-fails-man-becomes-vigilante-border-enforcer_2812291.html
Hillary is also still leading by 20 points. Look, polls are just meaningless. They really are. Yeah, if you go from 60 to 20 in a week, maybe you did something wrong. But that’s not what we have here
We will see in 2020 when Trump crushes the Dems favorite socialist who ever that turns out to be?
Fortunately, regarding the emergency declaration, President Trump can rightly claim that he is attempting to more thoroughly enforce America’s immigration laws (while using existing legal authority to do it). As we are aware most Democrats in Congress and some RINOs don’t want to see those laws enforced because they benefit too much from illegal immigration (big donors who want cheap labor and changing voting demographics through illegal immigration). As a result, they are quite willing to essentially subvert the ability of the Executive Branch to properly enforce immigration law.
Contrast that with Obama who just decided to circumvent Congress with his DACA fiat or his attempt to unilaterally declare the Senate in “recess” so he could make illegal appointments.
His national emergency proclamation doesn’t have any teeth and is basically just a proclamation that we have a problem with illegal immigration and there needs to be a border wall. That’s why there hasn’t been an injunction on it by Judge McLiberal. He needs to rewrite it or issue an executive order.
False. NEA 1976… read it.
I’m not completely sure what you are talking about. Lawsuits are pending right now.
Trump has invoked 12302, 284(b)(7), and 2808 of Title X of the U.S. Code according to the DoD:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/which-laws-are-being-used-by-trump-for-the-national-emergency/
I’m not sure where the process is right now. I had read previously that Trump invoked two other statutes to provide wall-funding that were not tied to the emergency declaration.
He didn’t invoke 33 USC 2293 which allows military funds to be moved from one project to another (the border wall). Nothing will happen until he does this. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/33/2293
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-declaring-national-emergency-concerning-southern-border-united-states/
I believe he has SonofaGip.
33 US Code 2293 is not mentioned in the proclamation. That’s the most important code because it authorizes military funds to be used to build the border wall. Trump makes the military available, but they don’t have the funds to do anything.
Thanks SG. I read your post below & you are right.
Funny stuff! Let’s start with eVerify and arresting business owners who hire illegal aliens.
Oh, no, Trump says that is “heartless.”
Aren’t those the dreamers?
Another reason we know that Trump is doing so many great things for America, as opposed to the division and hatred of America that obama sewed into our nation, is that even ISIS wives are fighting to come back home! ;-D
Hopefully, Alexandra OC will be fighting to come back to freedom in a couple years when she matures.
She just received $10 million from Netflix, through soros/steyer and the obama’s, so she has no reason ever to “mature.”
Latest polls show him underwater in swing states and in some Republic stronghold states as well.
Trump is fortunate he has such blind support among conservative voters because his approval should be in the 30s. He’s been truly awful the past month: Lost the shut down battle to Pelosi, signed a lousy spending bill, and issued a border wall national emergency proclamation that doesn’t do anything.
Gotta face it that the guy doesn’t know what he is doing, and is being guided by people that don’t know what they are doing either. Between signing that bill and his trade policies, his polling in swing states and midwestern states is way down.
I do t pay much attention to polls as I beleive they are rigged, like most things in politics. His speech writer, writes good speeches. Other than that, the follow through sucks!
Polls cannot be trusted. That said, Trump has not had a rally in a couple of weeks, so when he comes home from Vietnam, he can have another one and announce the results of his visit, which I am sure will be “incredible,” and “the best ever in the history of our country,” etc. Doing that at a rally insures that all of the networks will have to broadcast the rally, even though rallies are known to increase his popularity. If the clown-networks do not show up, people will not tune in to their idiocy.
He had that great rally in Miami about Venezuela this past Monday.
Polls have proven that three quarters of all people are 75% and only half of them are 50%
Scratching my wooden head…………Wut?
Well one quarter of all people are 25% and the other half are 50%. It’s proven, just look at the polls.
I was told there would be no math.
I’m too pretty for math!
I can tell by your photo.
The only POLL I follow are the actions and desperation of the LIB’s, as they get crazier the better Trump is actually doing
Don’t forget the Never Trumpers and then those “conservatives” who don’t believe Trump is an “authentic conservative” no matter how pro-life, pro-American, pro-Constitution, pro-2nd Amendment etc, etc, etc he is.
Yep… I monitor a broad swath of dumb-asses to keep my polling accurate
Short Attention Span Theater
The poll was a online poll, so I give it the BS grade.
Any poll that has Trump below a certain margin is a good poll, C. How dare you go against that narrative?
I wonder when the polls will reflect trump’s sellout on immigration. His sellout on the open borders bill and pushing for the highest levels of legal immigration in decades, I don’t believe, are reflected in polling. Yet.
The only poll that matters is the one taken on election day. The rest are just fodder for the talking heads.
Unless there is a definite downward trend in Trump’s Polling Data, none of this matters.
I doubt it. The shutdown only really affected government employees, for everyone else it was business as usual.
I find it amazing that he is even at 47%. With most of the public only seeing the MSM negative crap about Trump 24/7 I wouldn’t be surprised to see the number even lower.
Maybe it’s because the public doesn’t much trust the media and the left is just plain nuts.
I’ve never been one to stick with my party, right or wrong. Trump should have never signed that bill and I was so pissed when he did. I think it’s that and then turning around and calling for a national emergency…which seems to be just a lot of hot air since he signed the bill giving states and counties along the border the right to refuse fencing. I don’t know who is advising Trump on these issues, but those two instances are probably the exact reason for the loss of poll points since the SOTU. I hope he has a rabbit he can pull out of his arse on the border issue. He’ll lose in 2020 if not. I know I won’t vote for him if he keeps up this nonsense. RUN, TED, RUN!
I believe you’re entirely correct.
From what I’ve been reading, his border wall national emergency proclamation doesn’t authorize the allocation of military funds to build the wall so nothing has been started so far. He needs to issue an executive order.
The only poll that matters: “Socialism and Oppression” or “Capitalism and Freedom”?
Still didn’t find any “former Trump supporter”.
Aren’t polls either for strippers or people from Poland?
Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
Horrible week for Democrats:
Smollett’s fake hate crime to destroy Trump publicly blows up in his face
Kamala Harris’ father called her comments on weed “ a travesty”
Trump approval ratings skyrocket with suburban women and grow with independents
The WALL IS GETTING BUILT
Sky rocket is a bit much.
I’m just curious why we never see polls on the leftist media? I imagine it’s not pretty; otherwise, that’s all they would be parading after every skirmish they have with POTUS.
After the American people saw for themselves the real Trump at the SOTU address they approved of him. Then after the MSM had a couple days to pick it apart and give their interpretation and push their narratives, people backed off on their support.
I know right? Yesterday I mistakenly switched to CNN which was talking about N Korea… they were saying how horrible Kim is and how many people he has killed and how cruelly… etc. I thought “how scary this creep has the ability to nuke our interests in the Pacific” then the they made their point… Trump is just as bad as Kim, for wanting to stop Kim from nuking our interests in the Pacific…
My guess is there are many lemmings on the left who thought that logic was perfect.
It chills me to think how evil the left has become.
To them it’s all about the R or D behind the candidates name and unfortunately they are polarizing the populace.
The Apple News feed on my phone currently features a CNN story with the headline “What if Trump refuses to accept defeat in 2020?”
Of course I’m not clicking on it. But can you imagine such a “news” story? It’s not listed under “opinion.”
The “real Trump” reads off the teleprompter?
That’s what amnesty brings.
I think he was at almost the exact same place when he won the election.
He is doing much better than I expected. I don’t think he’s in any trouble.
Democrats have to offer America something better, and so far I don’ t think they have.
His new poll numbers are even scarier because his lost support, after this last amnesty bill (because that’s what it was), probably reflects some of his core supporters cooling on him.