Why Trump is still a problem for the GOP establishment
Our first CNN/SSRS poll since the insurrection of the Capitol contains mostly bad news for Republican President Donald Trump.
His approval rating (34%) is the lowest CNN's ever recorded, and most Americans want Trump removed from office immediately.
But a look underneath the hood finds that Trump's influence on the political scene is likely far from over. Many Republicans still like him, and he could be a figure to be reckoned with heading into 2022 and, yes, 2024.
Let's start with the basic fact that Trump's approval rating among Republicans in our poll stands at 80%. Other polls taken since the events of January 6 have similar ratings for Trump among Republicans, if perhaps a touch lower into the high 70s on average.
That 80% rating is certainly down from 94% before the election, but it's still a very large percentage. It's certainly a higher approval rating among his own party than the other presidents (Harry Truman, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush) who left office with an approval rating below 40% overall.
To give you some perspective, presidents who have approval ratings above 75% amongst the base have never faced a credible primary threat. In fact, every president who ran for another term with an approval rating above 60% within his own party won his party's nomination.
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