Donald Trump's approval rating hits record high in new poll (Gallup)

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https://www.salon.com/2020/02/04/donald-trumps-approval-rating-hits-record-high-in-new-poll/

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A new poll reveals that 49% of Americans approve of President Donald Trump's performance in office, the highest mark he has reached since taking office in January 2017.

The Gallup survey finds that 50% of Americans disapprove of Trump's performance as president; his approval rating increase can be attributed to improved standing among Republicans and independents. Since early January, Trump has risen from 88% to a 94% approval rating among Republicans, as well as from 37% to 42% among independents. Among Democrats, he drops to seven percent from last month's 10 percent.

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A number of metrics cited by Gallup could account for Trump's improved poll standing. Sixty-three percent of Americans approve of how Trump has managed the economy, compared to 57% from a survey in November. Gallup's Economic Confidence Index sits at +40, its highest recorded reading since +44 in October 2000. National satisfaction is at 41 percent, the highest since 2005. Fifty-three percent of Americans approve of Trump's decision to kill Iranian military official Qassem Soleimani, while 45% disapprove.

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It is unclear what role, if any, the impeachment proceedings have had on the president's approval rating. The survey finds that 52% of Americans want Trump to be acquitted, while 46% support convicting and removing him from office. The previous president to be impeached, Bill Clinton, saw his numbers rise as the scandal dragged out while Americans supported his stewardship of the economy and remained skeptical of the grounds on which he was impeached.

We shouldn't have taken the bait on impeachment. It's going to get him re-elected.

[ck4829]

1. "taken the bait", he's not Palpatine

[still_one]

2. Which means we better choose a candidate who can win the GE

[helpisontheway]

13. We really don't have a star now. There is not another Clinton or Obama running right now..nt

[FBaggins]

14. Not an Obama perhaps... but I wouldn't rule out a Clinton

Not talking about Hillary jumping in at the last moment... just saying that we shouldn’t look at Bill Clinton through the lens of hindsight. He wasn’t considered as such a great option as the primary season began.

He finished 4th in Iowa with 2% of the vote.

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39. There could be if candidates would shut up about policies

That's not what gets voters engaged.

[NanceGreggs]

3. Of course.

The Dems should have ignored their responsibilities, and just sat in silence as Trump continued to shake down our allies for personal political gain.

Good plan.

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4. He's going to shake them down openly now

That's worse, not better

[NanceGreggs]

6. As if ...

... he wouldn't have done so anyway?

[sprinkleeninow]

7. Mb the timing of it. Well, it's done now. However, I couldn't envision NOT doing it.

After a storm, a rainbow?

[llmart]

11. +1

The Democrats had no choice but to do the job they were elected to do. We all knew it wouldn't change the outcome with the current GOP. They are our own modern day Nazis and will do whatever their Fuhrer wants them to do.

[FBaggins]

16. Of course they had a choice

Impeachment is a fundamentally political creature. If it was known (debatable still) that it would increase the chances of a second term and had no chance of removal, they absolutely should have avoided it. Nobody on our side was elected to bring about Trump 2.0

[llmart]

20. OK. You are correct. We did have a choice.

Let me rephrase that. Those of us who believe in the rule of law,and that no one is above the law believe we had no choice but to do the right and principled thing.

I guess I'm just one of those people who for my entire seventy years on this planet held a core principle of doing what's morally and ethically right.

No one has said it increased the chances of him getting a second term.

[ck4829]

23. +1

[mojowork_n]

5. You're simply laying out the numbers. Whatever the conclusion to be drawn may be.

Someone needs to look in a mirror and ask, what's gone wrong, where and why?

[vercetti2021]

8. No it isn't

He'll drop again. Even then look at who they polled mainly. He doesn't have the numbers to be reelected

[gab13by13]

9. Polls are for propaganda,

Gallup used to be reliable but it got caught plugging in bogus data during the 2008 primary and election.

Doesn't anyone take pause when this poll comes out right before the state of the union? I call it bullshit.

[bdamomma]

34. propaganda

is rotting people's heads. and it's working.



The Democrats did the right thing we believe in the rule of law, it is truly disgusting how people have been brainwashed into believing this asshole. People are in for a world of hurt, just wait our liberties will be eroding slowly, and Mr. trump will be laughing all the way to the bank, bankrupting this country. Putin must love this. We are nothing on the world stage.

[crickets]

47. +1

[OnDoutside]

10. It's January.

[helpisontheway]

12. Yes, he probably will get re-elected. At least he has the stain of impeachment in the history books

Then people will later realize he is the reason things are so screwed up for them in the future. Dumb assholes will stay home again and watch him be re-elected. That is exactly why the number of people that went to the caucus. They are no longer outraged by Trump. I’m not going to worry about it. All of them get exactly what they deserve. Stressing myself out over it won’t do a thing..

[pnwmom]

15. It's not any newer than a bunch of "new" polls, with an overall approval of 43.5, according to 538.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/?ex_cid=rrpromo

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17. 538 is a trailing measure, but it's heading up

We'll see where it is in a week

[pnwmom]

19. No, it's not. The Gallup poll you posted is included among the ones they reported.

It's number 14 from the top.

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33. Yes, and?

That's why I said "we'll see in a week". I'm predicting the uptick is going to continue, though, particularly after "TRUMP VINDICATED BY SENATE" is splashed all over the media.

[pnwmom]

45. There hasn't been an uptick. Several polls conducted in days AFTER this one

did not show an increase in support.

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46. Yes, they did show an uptick. Yougov is up. Ipsos is up. Morning consult is up.

You keep yelling that "they're in the low forties" but you're ignoring the fact that a week or two ago those same polls were in the thirties.

[FBaggins]

18. The specifics aren't relevant... the story is the same

He clearly hasn’t shown damage from impeachment.

43.5 may not look high... but he was elected with much lower figures.

[Bengus81]

21. Bait on Impeachment??? HELL YES Dems did the right thing...........

You think that POS should have 100% skated when trying to RIG yet another election using a foreign power?? I sure as HELL don't

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26. He *is* 100% skating. He's going to be more out of control than ever now

When a child sees he gets away with something, he does it more.

[JHB]

22. Sure... much better to do nothing and give him a de facto stamp of approval.

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28. I mean, yes. That would be better than the bump he's going to get after the acquittal

We managed to get independents to strengthen their support for him. That's a Bad Thing.

[JHB]

44. What makes you think "Democrats won't do anything" wouldn't be worse?

[BeckyDem]

24. If M$M actually spoke about income inequality instead of repeating Trump's "truth" the

economy is GREAT, we might see a drop in his ratings.

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29. If a frog had wings it wouldn't bump it's ass a-hoppin'

We were absolute idiots to grant his framing 4 years ago that the economy was broken. He won't make the same mistake now, and people are even happier with the economy now.

[BeckyDem]

30. There was income inequality four years ago, the press is suppose to point out

the facts. It was/is easy for him to manipulate reality because M$M helps that false narrative along. He began his entire charade with racist claims blaming Mexico for white American workers losing their jobs. I don't recall the press ever championing labor unions, nor pointing out that neither did Trump. $15 an hour was not his nor their mantra.

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32. People don't care about inequality when their real wages are rising

That's a philosophical issue that only excites a small group of people. What most people see is that they can buy more today than they could in the past and they like that. The economic confidence numbers back that up.

[BeckyDem]

36. No.

[GoCubsGo]

25. What bait?

He engaged in criminal activities. We're supposed to just let that slide over fear of a bump in the polls? What the hell?????

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27. Better than handing him the "TRUMP VINDICATED IN SENATE" headline he's about to get (nt)

[GoCubsGo]

41. He was going to get that all along. nt

[dewsgirl]

31. Bullshit, I no longer believe in polls.

[Odoreida]

35. It makes me choke but gotta say it ...

Post-impeachment bounce. It worked for Bill Clinton, too.

Yeah I know the difference, you don't have to explain it to me.

But does that abstraction "the public" get it? Most people aren't "into" politics.

[uponit7771]

37. *** GALLOP POLLING IS OLD *** Recent Polling has him in the low 40s

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

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38. And all the polls have him trending up

Morning consult is in the low 40s having come up from the high 30s.

[uponit7771]

40. No, ... come on we're more educated here about polling. He's still within his 5% band, trending

... up from 41.8% to 43% isn't OP worthy.

Looks like a meme push vs the truth

[rockfordfile]

43. You're pushing right-wing talking points. They used this propaganda to lie.

The same goes for impeachment the majority support it. Actually the majority of Americans want him out of office.

Americans get it that a GOP Senate is involved with the cover-up.

[ismnotwasm]

42. Fuck him

As bad as it is, people are growing and changing and his demographic is shrinking. Could we get Eight years of Trump? That was always possible since the day I turned off the TV that night and realized Hillary lost.
In my neck of the woods Trump is unpopular and ONLY bigots support him. One reason I’m surprised And disconcerted when people claim this isn’t true, that only bigots and bigotry support Trump.

But people are strange. As we manage the lasting effects of colonialism on developing nations, there is a reactionary force in the developed world that simply does not any responsibility for it. Hell, people can’t even take responsibility for lasting results of slavery and indigenous genocide in our own country. “I wasn’t there, it wasn’t me” is the main argument. And this is, sometimes, from people who consider themselves progressive. Completely ignoring the effect of history on the present

On DU, there are a few posters who really understand the importance of down ticket votes. They post regularly. To control policy, we need to control Congress. If we are despondent about Trumps popularly, use forward action to local politics. Adopt a red area, if you don’t live in one they could use the help.

[applegrove]

48. Just as Bernie was surging. Someone should look into that. I think Bernie

could win over some of Trump's base if he was given the airtime. But he is 'the socialist' right now. And Independants don't like him.