The Memo: Trump base shows signs of cracking

[DonViejo]

BY NIALL STANAGE - 05/20/17 12:20 PM EDT

President Trump’s previously resilient base is showing signs of cracking. A new Reuters/IPSOS tracking poll, released Friday afternoon, showed the president with a job approval rating of 75 percent among Republicans.

Political professionals generally view it as worrying for any commander-in-chief if his approval ratings with his own party dip below 85 percent — and downright alarming if they go below 80 percent.

“Seventy-five (percent) is certainly a new number and I would want to see something that would either back that up or refute it,” said GOP pollster David Winston, whose resumé includes work for former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). “Certainly, if it were true, that is not where you would want to be.”

While the IPSOS result was especially bad for Trump, it was not so far outside of the norm as to be a true outlier. A Monmouth University poll earlier in the week put Trump at 83 percent approval among Republicans, as did an Economist/YouGov poll. All or most of the responses for both surveys were, unlike the Reuters poll, gathered before a special counsel was appointed to look into allegations of collusion between Trump campaign associates and Russia.

Low poll ratings are not a new problem for Trump. Nor have they always doomed him.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Infuriating 75% of their party supports treason.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

2. They don't know any better, being

That they think only what they are told to think. If O'Liely, et al, say drumpf good, then drumpf good.

[Cha]

3. Fake fox lost 5%.. the 75% are

too brainwashed to budge.. so far.

[tanyev]

4. I've got to think quite a few of them won't be thrilled by him getting a gold medal

from the Saudis and bowing when he got it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. That wasn't a bow

It was a curtsy.

[cwydro]

6. I work in a red county.

Most of the Trump bumper stickers have vanished, but I did see a woman wearing a garish rhinestone Trump pin the other day. She didn't seem happy.