Trump approval dips as Americans question his handling of coronavirus crisis

[riversedge]

Hoping it sinks into his stinking swamp!


Trump approval dips as Americans question his handling of coronavirus crisis

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-approval-dips-americans-question-his-handling-coronavirus-crisis-n1180321?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma




After rising to some of the highest levels of his presidency, Donald Trump's approval ratings have leveled off in recent surveys.

April 9, 2020, 12:33 PM CDT
By Sahil Kapur

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's job approval has taken a negative turn as a growing number of Americans harbor doubts about his handling of the coronavirus crisis.

After seeing a late-March spike as the pandemic ravaged the United States, his approval ratings have fallen back to the mid-40 percent range, where they were before the death toll and jobless claims exploded. The figure dovetails surveys showing the president narrowly trailing former Vice President Joe Biden, who this week became the apparent Democratic nominee to face him in November.

The latest numbers suggest the surge in job approval ratings that presidents tend to enjoy during a crisis was modest and short-lived for Trump. New polls this week by Quinnipiac, Reuters and CNN all find disapproval of Trump's handling of the coronavirus rising to a majority of Americans.

It's a reversal of fortune for a president who benefits from a committed minority of supporters but has never quite managed to win over a majority of the country. And it comes after his spike in approval had significantly lagged U.S. governors and world leaders, as well as previous American presidents during a crisis or a war.


After rising to his highest-ever 47.4 percent rating on April 1, Trump's approval began to fall and stood at 45.2 percent as of Thursday — the same level as early February — in the RealClearPolitics average of polls.

Trump's messaging strategy has been to portray himself as a wartime president leading the country to victory..........................................







Image: President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on April 7, 2020.
After spiking in late March as the pandemic ravaged the U.S., the president's approval ratings have fallen back to the mid-40 percent range.Doug Mills / Pool via Getty Images

[TlalocW]

1. Time and time again

The media prop him up when his handlers actually rein him in and convince him to stay on script. They start pushing the, "He's finally showing himself to be presidential," theme, but he can never hold it for long, and a few days if not the next day, he's back to wasting whatever good-will capital, real or imagined, by resorting to his true awful self.

TlalocW

[underpants]

4. Hate to quote Lindsay but "your opponent is no longer Joe Biden -- it's this virus,"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213260010

[uponit7771]

2. 45% is still flag rally numbers, at 24% UE for 2 months he's toast & have to recreate WI nationwide

[Dirty Socialist]

3. 45 pct. is still way too fucking high!

45 percent??? What the fuck is wrong with Americans? He's so full of shit, Americans ran out of toilet paper!

[dawg day]

5. I know -- it's impossible to believe that 45% of our fellow Americans think this is a good leader

They must have some death wish-- either for themselves or their neighbors.

[Cosmocat]

6. Yep and

puts him in the range he is can still pull the inside straight out again.

He has and will always play that hand - a 100% base campaign to get to 45%, then slander Joe Cool the way he slandered Hillary (and Rs did for decades) with the media enabling it to create drama and "be fair" and try to flake off that 5% to either vote for him or note vote to pull the inside straight.