New poll shows what happened after Trump’s SOTU bump in approval rating

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.


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