New York – Approval Of President Trump Drops To Lowest Since Inauguration: Reuters/Ipsos Poll

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    U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump board Air Force One for his first international trip as president, including stops in Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Vatican, Brussels and at the G7 summit in Sicily, from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S. May 19, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst New York – Public approval of President Donald Trump has dropped to its lowest level since his inauguration, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday, after Trump was accused of mishandling classified information and meddling with an FBI investigation.

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    The May 14-18 opinion poll found that 38 percent of adults approved of Trump while 56 percent disapproved. The remaining 6 percent had “mixed feelings.”

    [Click here for the full poll results: https://goo.gl/h58p2z]

    Americans appear to have soured on Trump after a tumultuous week in the White House during which the president fought back a steady drumbeat of critical news reports that ramped up concerns about his administration’s ties to Russia.

    The week started with revelations that Trump shared highly classified information with Russian diplomats in a private meeting. That was followed by reports that former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, whom Trump recently fired, had written memos expressing concerns that the president had pressured him to stop investigating Trump campaign ties to Russia.

    Later in the week, the Justice Department appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller to oversee an independent probe into contacts between Russia and the Trump campaign.

    Trump has denied colluding with the Russians and called ongoing efforts to investigate him a “witch hunt.” No politician in history, he said, “has been treated worse or more unfairly.”

    While Trump remains popular with members of his own party, many rank-and-file Republicans appear to have backed off their support for the president during the past week.

    Among Republicans, 23 percent expressed disapproval of Trump in the latest poll, up from 16 percent in the same poll last week. The decline in support from Republicans appears to be a primary reason why Trump’s overall approval rating is now at the lowest level since he took office.

    The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online in English across the United States. It gathered responses from 1,971 adults, including 721 Republicans and 795 Democrats. It has a credibility interval, a measure of accuracy, of 3 percentage points for the entire group and 4 percentage points for the Democrats and Republicans.


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    Nova2
    Nova2
    6 years ago

    They asked 1,971 people out of 250 million? and the link to the “real” poll in the article is invalid.

    6 years ago

    Not convinced We saw how good polling predicted last election .

    Yes the nay Sayers will say hey suppositly towards the end the polls had Hillary winning in all swing states but Trump was within the margin of error . So they were not wrong .

    1) it was individual polls forswing states . Each state was going to Hillary just trump was within the margin of error . So basically all the margin of error had to be used for every single state poll . When we need to come onto margins for multiple polls that’s weak in my eyes .
    2) This is a more important point , till that day before the elections , prior polls had trump way behind . After billi bush , yonasonw predicted a biggly loose ( did I spell loose right this time ?) . Yet within two weeks polls and numbers flipped around. Polls only reflect today but it moves by the day .

    Bottom line , polls are nonsense , Malarky . They don’t reflect much

    (Nat silver never had trump at higher than 30%. And he got flack for putting him that high )

    pushkin
    pushkin
    6 years ago

    Who cares!

    6 years ago

    Good morning, have the Israeli-Americans woken up?
    Trump is a politician like most politicians, saying things that people want to hear in order to get their votes. He lied to the unemployed factory workers in the Dust Belt about getting their jobs back, when there is hard economic data showing that the major cause of the decline in low-skilled factory employment in the US is NOT foreign competition, but automation. He lied to the coal miners in Appalachia about getting their jobs back when it is much easier and more economical to get low-sulfur soft coal from the Green Powder Formation in the Dakotas, and not from underground mines in Kentucky and West Virginia. And he lied the Jews by promising to move the Embassy to Jerusalem when realpolitik made that highly unlikely. Add to that his impetuousness, his narcissism, his huge ego – and we have an unguided missile from whom we all need protection!

    6 years ago

    They didn’t ask me; I’m willing to say it was a mistake to vote for Trump.

    ayinglefunadorf
    ayinglefunadorf
    6 years ago

    You just dont understand it. In a casino Roulette table you have about 3% chance to win on a number. 3% Every single day many people do win. It doesnt change the fact that that you only had 3 %.

    triumphinwhitehouse
    triumphinwhitehouse
    6 years ago

    Fake news. Trump is the greatest.