Trump setting records for low presidential approval
Source: Associated Press
Trump setting records for low presidential approval
By EMILY SWANSON
34 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) Donald Trump started as the most unpopular new president in the history of modern polling. After seven months, things have only gotten worse.
Plunging into undesirably uncharted territory, Trump is setting records with his dismally low approval ratings, including the lowest mark ever for a president in his first year. In fact, with four months left in the year, Trump has already spent more time under 40 percent than any other first-year president.
At 34 percent, his current approval rating is worse than former President Barack Obamas ever was.
Trumps early descent in the polls defies some longstanding patterns about how Americans view their president. Such plunges are often tied to external forces that the president only partially controls, such as a sluggish economy or an all-consuming international crisis. In Trumps case, the economy is humming and the foreign crises have been kept to a minimum.
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