Trump Approval Rating Falls To 25%
Last week a poll showed that almost 80% of Republicans want Trump to run for president in 2024.
Today a new poll shows Trumps overall approval rating with Americans has slipped to 25%.
These two results seem a little incongruous.
What might be the takeaway? It seems to me that there are a lot of Republicans that know that Trump doesnt belong anywhere near the presidency but want him to run and perhaps win anyway.
How could this possibly lead to “national unity?”
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Half of Americans say that former President Trump should have been charged with a crime after his highly anticipated indictment was unsealed last Tuesday.
The new ABC News/Ipsos poll, which was conducted after Trump’s charges were revealed, found that 50 percent of Americans believe that the former president should be charged with a crime, a slight increase from the 45 percent last week prior to his arraignment that initially said he should be charged. In contrast, 33 percent say Trump should not be charged, only increasing by one point from last week.
As for what Americans think Trump exactly did in the hush money case, 53 percent of Americans think he intentionally did something illegal versus the 11 percent who say he acted wrongly but not intentionally. Only 20 percent think he did not do anything wrong. The poll also gauged Americans’ overall impression of Trump before and after his arrest, with 25 percent saying the former president was favorable after the arrest, a 4 percent decrease from his favorability before the arrest. On the other side, 61 percent said they find Trump unfavorable after his arrest, a 6 percent increase. Last Tuesday, Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts for his alleged participation in a hush-money scheme, which made him the first current or former commander-in-chief to be arraigned on criminal charges.
Trump is losing ground with independents.
That is good but hardly unexpected. Now if the dems would only provide a viable candidate so independents are not again left with a lesser of two evils(assuming trump and biden are nominated). Maybe the dems could nominate someone that doesn't belong in a nursing home.
Claiming that Trump, who tried to overthrow the US government, is a lesser evil than Biden is insanity.
Once again you ignore that the majority of independents will vote based on kitchen table issues. With the economic issues over the past two years while Biden was president, tied in with all those warning flags about recession, all the other fuck-up's that have happened over the past two years... yeah I believe a lot of people could still vote for Trump because of that.
Biden got lucky (IMO) in 2020 where Covid allowed him to campaign from his basement and not have to face a normal campaign trail. He won't have that this time around if he is indeed the Democrat nominee.
In addition, the biggest thing that Biden promised in 2020 was negating college loans. Since it is obvious he can't do that, that 18-30 set that overwhelmingly turned out for him because of that ONE reason will not do it again.
Biden is a bust to them.
The Jan 6 committee essentially proved, mostly through sworn testimony from Trumps own aides, lawyers and associates, that Trump attempted to subvert the US government as related to the 2020 election.
The fact that you could even consider returning such a person to office, no matter who the opponent is, says more about you than it says about the rest of us.
And before you say you dont support Trump, then show us sometimes how you dont support him instead of defending his position on articles all over this forum.
Why don't you show me where I defended his position in that post? All I said was that Biden has a tougher road this time because he will have to defend his last two years in office and won't be able to hide in his basement but will need to go out on the campaign trail and endure the rigors of active campaigning.
Your obsession with Trump being the most evil and underserving person to ever walk into the Oval Office continues to cloud your reasoning and your ability to comprehend.
Everyone here who follows your comments knows what you do.
So you can't show me where I defended Trump in that post and you cannot back up your comments.
Another mis-truth from you. You lie and speak like a politician, should we get the fact checkers on you now? How many lies, mistruths and exaggerations are you up to now? Are you up to Trump's level? Are you up to Biden's level?
Next time you want to accuse me of something you should be able to back it up or it's just another in a long line from you.
Oh please. You defend Trump's position on various things every day here. I am far from the only one who thinks that.
But you accused me of defending Trump's position in post 1.1.2. Again, prove it.
And just because you accuse me of something does not make it true. You never seem to show proof of your accusations, just double-down on them.
One might say, just how Trumpian of you.
Claiming that Trump tried to overthrow the government is complete BS. Is the Brandon administration paying you?
No, insanity is leftists defending Brandon the Human Fuck Up Machine at every turn. Name one damn thing he has done to improve this country? Just one? "Not being Trump" doesn't count anymore. Brandon and Democrats have driven this country into a ditch; and their lemmings expect the rest of us to reward them for it.
Lets start here...
You wouldn't know the truth if it bit you in the ***. I'll give you the same offer I gave JR, go back to post 1.1.2 that started this all and show me where I defended Trump in any fashion. You won't be able to do it and I expect I'll hear back the same from you that JR gave, which is nothing.
But but but, you meant to!
Are you trying to get a 15 paragraph dissertation on trump? including the Big Lie?
See comment 1.1.12 for a good laugh.
Neither do I. In fact, I don't buy lists from anyone especially when they're not sourced.
Every one of those points can be easily countered and proven to either not be true or has not made a positive affect in this country.
Yet you were just as quick as another to pile on stating that I'm again defending Trump. Just because I'm not demanding that Trump be burned at the stake doesn't mean I'm supporting him. Perhaps you should take the time to actually read and understand the words before you fire back a response. Perhaps then you can start to actually respond with something useful rather than your normal partisan bullshit.
Yet there are many independents that think just that. Maybe instead of calling them insane you actually listen to someone outside your echo chamber.
Nice meme. It should be flagged for disinformation but at least Joe looks awake. Somebody must have promised him 2 scoops
I guess that's why there was an indictment and a trial and conviction to come out of that committee.
OH! WAIT! There weren't any!
The voting population's biggest mistake in this country is believing any political polls coming out of DC that insist on trying to poll a thousand people or so in preselected demographics and making it look representative of the entire country. That's why I stopped believing in them many years ago.
Of course they are incongruent. They are measuring two different things. Now if you put up a poll from today that measured how many Reps want Trump to run for President in 2024, then you would and appropriate comparison.
But spin baby spin .... make Hillary and Georgie Porgie puddin pie, happy .....
Trump receives a favorable rating from 79% of Republicans (up four points in a week),
After indictment, ‘highest’ GOP support for 2024 Trump run (msn.com)
My pleasure.
Yet 56% of the gop, who are the MAGA, are only about 25% of voter! Trump may win the gop nomination with a plurality of the gop and yet still lose the general election worse than in 2020. Thereafter the very best scenario for Democrats is the gop nominating Trump. That would also guarantee another Biden term. Go for it!
I agree.
Absolutely.
I wouldn't get the cart too far ahead of the horse, here. Everyone thought a Trump nomination would guarantee HRC the presidency. We saw how that turned out.
It needs to be said that while a Trump nomination is undoubtedly the best scenario for Democrats, a Biden nomination is undoubtedly not.
Careful now... if you dare to say that Biden may not have as easy a time getting re-elected as he did in 2020 you will be accused of defending Trump. Doesn't matter what else you may say or what your words actually say, if you are not in goose-step with the other side you are (gasp) defending Trump.
Perhaps victims of a local public school education,
Well... you're going to be accused of "defending Trump" if you fail to cheer enthusiastically enough at the calls for him to be flayed alive and sodomized with a live hedgehog.
I don't really do "enthusiasm" very well, so I'll save you a spot in the gulag.
“Perhaps victims of a local public school education,…”
Where our generation came from?
It is the environment in which we were raised that defines one’s outlook. It is in an educational setting that allows one to question those notions and thus allows an opinion or thought that may differ, but is honest.
Haven't our assessments in math, science, ect. been steadily declining in comparison with students from other countries?
How's our environment?
“Might be wise to clue in the universities and colleges of that.”
Of what?
That any educational system may contradict your views?
You give todays students much less credit than they deserve…as they can readily see through the previous generations bullshit and want something, anything better…even if it contradicts your political biases.
“How's our environment?”
In flux…when the arts, humanities, and divergent viewpoints are subject to removal by puerile, puritanical polemicists.
“What you do with that is on you.”
What I do with that? You win, tex.
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[Peace, nonetheless.]
Especially a inner city one.
Hilarious how many times we have heard that on here from leftists, but inevitably, they can't help it and will eventually respond...usually with insults and snarky responses.
“I somehow doubt your opinion will matter much in my life.”
ditto
Why is this important? The last two Presidential elections demonstrated that popularity is not a pre-requisite for winning elections.
Elections are only about party politics. Candidates don't matter; they're only figureheads. The party that can deploy the dirtiest politics has a better chance of winning. So, our democracy has devolved to appealing to our worst natures. In today's politics the dirtiest, sleaziest, most outrageous, and most divisive party figureheads can win elections.
"that Trump attempted to subvert the US government as related to the 2020 election"
Very few normal and rational US citizens give a shit about a protest that turned bad because of a handful of hotheads. It's not on their list of concerns, right down there with climate change
It's way too early for any polls to have any serious meaning. In the end it will come down to kitchen table issues, added onto the messes that Biden has committed.
You spent months and months saying Trump was through. Now that it appears more likely he will be the GOP nominee you are moving back toward defending him. LOL. Pathetic.
The MAGA's message is loud and clear...
Trump, Trump and more Trump. What ever, his Easter message was......................uh............odd.
This too, considering Trump has a base of 30-40% is proof that mental issues run rampant in the American population.