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Trump base shows signs of cracking
The Hill ^ | May 20, 2017 | Niall Stanage

Posted on 05/20/2017 9:39:24 AM PDT by Zakeet

President Trump's previously resilient base is showing signs of cracking.

A new Reuters/IPSOS tracking poll, released Friday afternoon, showed the president with a job approval rating of 75 percent among Republicans.

Political professionals generally view it as worrying for any commander-in-chief if his approval ratings with his own party dip below 85 percent - and downright alarming if they go below 80 percent.

"Seventy-five [percent] is certainly a new number and I would want to see something that would either back that up or refute it," said GOP pollster David Winston, whose resumé includes work for former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). "Certainly, if it were true, that is not where you would want to be."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bs; fake; fakenews; gop; monmouth; poll; second100days; thehillfakenews; trump; wishfulthinking
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To: AndyJackson
Well, did you evvah?! What a swell party, it is! 😊
21 posted on 05/20/2017 9:54:55 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Known as the Father of modern agriculture)
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To: Zakeet

And polls said Donald Trump had no chance to become president, as of voting day.

Polls are not trustworthy.


22 posted on 05/20/2017 9:55:13 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Zakeet

A Reuters “poll”? Are you kidding me? ROTFL.


23 posted on 05/20/2017 9:55:44 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Illegal immigration is the first step in the voter fraud process.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Prediction... the DemWits are gonna get slaughtered in the 2018 mid-terms. “We hate Trump, impeach Trump” is the ONLY “policy” they are offering... a “winning” strategy only among the nut base! The DemWits only chance to gain seats is totally up to the GOPers. If they run for the tall grass, they can lose. Conservative people rarely vote for cowards!

“Some disease, pathogen or poison infecting D.C. causes Democrats to lose the minds, and Republicans to lose their spines”.


24 posted on 05/20/2017 9:56:04 AM PDT by FiddlePig (Who needs Truth & facts when you have narrative?)
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To: Zakeet

IIRC a Reuters poll on 11/6 had ILLary carrying NC,GA,FL,PA,OH,MI,WI,AZ and possibly UT.


25 posted on 05/20/2017 9:57:58 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: Zakeet

Reagan presidency: continual assaults by the press over trivialities
Bush presidency: continual assaults by the press over trivialities
Clinton presidency: kid gloves
Bush presidency: continual assaults by the press over trivialities
Obama presidency: fawning adoraation
Trump presidency: gee, I wonder

We’ve seen this game before; as Rush said, the press didn’t make him, the press won’t be able to break him - anybody with at least half a brain knows what’s going on.


26 posted on 05/20/2017 10:03:50 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: HarleyLady27
Hopped aboard the Trump train late in the game — although I never was a “Never Trumper” — but backed him once he won the nomination and never have looked back. NOW?! Trump has my support no matter what, both because he's earned it and because this obviously is about sore losers’ attempting a coup because they still can't accept that they LOST the election.
27 posted on 05/20/2017 10:04:12 AM PDT by utahagen (but but)
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To: Zakeet

If anyone would like to leave a word of encouragement on the WH comment line, the number is: 202-456-1111. Let our POTUS and his staff know we have their backs, come bleep or high water.


28 posted on 05/20/2017 10:04:24 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Known as the Father of modern agriculture)
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To: Zakeet

Reuters and The Hill???????????????????????????????????
ZERO Twice Over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


29 posted on 05/20/2017 10:05:03 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Zakeet

Tracking poll Hillary ahead by 20 points.............


30 posted on 05/20/2017 10:09:07 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: Zakeet

Cracking? I voted for Trump as second choice but I support what he is doing and I am sick of news coverage. Sick. Sick of conservative never Trumpers dumping on with so little reason other than invisible memos and crimes with no evidence and leaks which are inconsequential but built into news. Sick. They need to clean house ASAP. I am seriously concerned that the rule of law will never matter again and that Mueller will create a case from thin air. That is what I am sick of and losing even more confidence in our governance, not the president. I do not believe he is perfect by far. Things are so unfair right now.


31 posted on 05/20/2017 10:10:53 AM PDT by outinyellowdogcountry
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To: Zakeet

If, and it’s a big if, the base is cracking, it’s only in congress, where the base was never very reliable to begin.


32 posted on 05/20/2017 10:14:35 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: Zakeet

Wanna bet, sHill?


33 posted on 05/20/2017 10:18:05 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Zakeet

Cracking some skulls maybe


34 posted on 05/20/2017 10:20:26 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Those who fabricated this poll WISH that the base was splitting with Trump.

Merely a continuance of all the pontification (annoyingly pompous and dogmatic) that went on in the two years leading up to the election of 2016.

They have to be using their eating orifices to make these statements and conclusions, their rectal orifices have more native good sense.


35 posted on 05/20/2017 10:20:49 AM PDT by alloysteel (Why does anyone vote Republican, anyway? The Democrats STILL impose their will.)
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To: Zakeet

The only thing I want to see cracked is the skulls of these lying traitorous reporters.


36 posted on 05/20/2017 10:21:25 AM PDT by JohnyBoy
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To: Zakeet
"A new Reuters/IPSOS tracking poll, released Friday afternoon, showed the president with a job approval rating of 75 percent among Republicans."

IF it includes the Never Trumpers, I'm surprised that it's so high! I don't approve of his political skills, but I didn't vote for him because he's a politician. The professional politicians failed. They still are failing.

What is Trump's approval among the basket of deplorables?

37 posted on 05/20/2017 10:22:02 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Zakeet

Rueters poll?

Fake poll for fake news.


38 posted on 05/20/2017 10:22:15 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: DaveA37

Actually, he cussed the usual polls. He bragged on his own internal polls.

Which turned out to be more accurate.


39 posted on 05/20/2017 10:22:50 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns)
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To: Zakeet
#FakeNews
40 posted on 05/20/2017 10:37:02 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (It is time to make America an uncomfortable place for Marxist usurpers.)
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