Posted on 07/18/2017 3:12:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Voters don’t think Vice President Mike Pence would do a better job than Donald Trump and say even if he did become chief executive, the media would be nearly as biased against him as they are against Trump.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that just 26% of Likely U.S. Voters believe Pence would make a better president than Trump. A plurality (45%) disagrees and says the former Indiana governor and congressman would not make a better chief executive. Slightly more (29%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Forty-three percent (43%), however, say Pence would make a better president than Hillary Clinton, last year’s failed Democratic presidential nominee. Fifty percent (50%) disagree.
Only 12% of voters think most reporters would try to help Pence pass his agenda if he became president. Just 10% say most reporters are trying to help Trump, but 48% said most were trying to help President Obama pass his agenda in 2010 when Rasmussen Reports first asked this question.
Thirty-seven percent (37%) say most reporters would try to block President Pence’s agenda. Just 42% feel they would simply try to report the news in an unbiased manner.
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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on July 16-17, 2017 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters said in mid-April that Pence is qualified to assume the responsibilities of the presidency.
Interestingly, there is little partisan disagreement about Pence’s fitness to replace Trump in the White House. Roughly a quarter of Republicans, Democrats and voters not affiliated with either major party believe the vice president would make a better president.
When it comes to Clinton, though, 77% of GOP voters say Pence would make a better president; 81% of Democrats and unaffiliateds by a 48% to 42% margin disagree.
The majority (54%) of Republicans also think most reporters would try to block Pence from passing his agenda if he was president, a view shared by only 21% of Democrats and 38% of unaffiliated voters.
Among voters who think Pence would make a better president than Trump, 61% say most reporters would try to report the news of his agenda in an unbiased manner.
Just 10% of voters who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing feel Pence would be a better chief executive. That compares to 35% of those who Strongly Disapprove of the current president’s job performance, but slightly more (38%) of these voters disagree.
Among all voters, Trump earned a monthly job approval rating of 46% in June. His monthly rating had been steadily falling from a high of 51% in February, his first full month in office, but went up a point last month.
Trump’s agenda continues to be strongly supported by Republicans and just as strongly opposed by Democrats. The Democratic opposition and the media are also much more interested in any ties between the Trump team and the Russian government.
In light of Democratic losses in this year’s special congressional elections, most voters continue to believe that it’s bad for America and bad for the Democratic Party if Democrats resist everything Trump does. But a majority of Democratic voters think the opposite is true.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of all voters say America is a more divided nation after Trump’s first few months in office.
Fifty percent (50%) of voters – and 76% of Republicans – think most reporters are biased against the president.
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Pollsters gotta poll...
Nope. Never did.
I’m sorry Trump picked Pence for the same reasons I was sorry Reagan picked Bush. Bush was Reagan’s biggest mistake that lead to 28 years of unconstitutional socialist government growth.
We need another outsider in 2024 who is ready, willing, and able to finish the job Trump started of taking down the rest of the 80% unconstitutional portion of the federal government and restoring our Free Constitutional Republic. Pence would never do this - he’s too much of a politician.
We are going to need the real deal in 2024 just like we needed the real deal in 2016.
They want to foster the notion that Pence may become President before Jan. 20, 2021, because Trump will be removed one way or the other.
I agree. we need to start looking now for trumps replacement in 2024. we need some one who will cement everything that was done during the eight years trump is president and not sabotage it like the bushes did.
FoxNews saying Trump was ‘BLINDSIDED’ by this and is someone who doesn’t like to lose. That Pres thought he was close to closing the deal.
Fox doing Midge’s bidding. Meh.
I wanted either Walker or hunter jr chosen. I don’t mind pence though. His principles are top notch.
Pence, humble and sincere guy that he is, does NOT have the chops to face these heathen forces. At least not NOW. Maybe after Trump castrates a bunch of them; and stomps the crap out of a lot more, the situation may be tame enough for a career politician to take over; say, in 2024. But NOT NOW!
I would vote for Ivanka Trump.
Trump quits half way into his 2nd term. Pence takes over-no election. The prospect of 10 years will do the left in. Trump gives his enemies the digital salute. No final 2 year blahs.
I have my doubts that Pence has the guts to back the media and the Deep State operatives down. I’m afraid he’d buckle at the knees.
I think of Pence as a younger Sessions. Weak as water.
Pointless conjecture. No one knows.
I guess it depends on what your goals are for America. Mine is restoration of our Free Constitutional Republic. The usual suspects, Pence and Walker, aren’t going to get you there. I don’t know about Hunter, Jr.
The right guy in 2024 is the outsider, non-politician who has no problem taking down the remaining 80% unconstitutional portion of the federal government and is willing, like Trump, to take the heat and is able, like Trump, to turn the heat back on the Lying Left.
All i know is it is exhausting being a spectator watching everything unfold. I can’t imagine the feeling that Trump has. He watches as much news as I do so he must get that overwhelming WTF gut punch at times. The media is absolutely RUTHLESS. I think W and Reagan had it easy compared to Trump (and they had it bad).
Pence is an establishment globalist free trader. I want someone else.
Trump turns the Lying left on itself. Trump fights fire with fire and wins.
THAT is what we need in 2024.
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