AMAZING! Rasmussen Poll Shows Trump at 50% Approval Rating — Three Points Higher than Obama at Same Point in His Presidency

Gateway Pundit ^ | 07/31/2020 | Jim Hoft

[SeekAndFind]

President Trump’s Rasmussen approval rating surged to 50% on Friday.

This is despite the continued media onslaught and the outrageous smears over his handling of the coronavirus.

Barack Obama had a 47% approval rating at the same point in his presidency.

And, as Rasmussen reported earlier, Obama had a 95% positive media.
Trump has a 95% negative media.

The fake news media and their tech giant cohorts are doing everything they can to sway the election.
So far it’s not working.

[Dave W]

Agreed...I heard Tucker but he said it in a way that there was room for interpretation.

[mowowie]

The Right for many reasons do not do or bother with polls.
The virtue signaling LEFT.....yea they DO polls...as many as they can find.
Hence the numbers that you read.

[cookcounty]

No, Rasmussen In 2018 said GoP would win the House, they did poorly.

[Dave W]

Yes. I agree with your thought. The only other thing that has happened is that horrid Bill Barr hearing, but no one really watches those things, so I doubt that could move the needle.

[cookcounty]

Rasmussen‘S final poll, per 538, did come closest to actual popular vote in 2016.

[enumerated]

Tucker Carlson may be the most courageous defender of Liberty and honesty in journalism today.

Because of that, he regularly comes down on the side of fellow truth-teller President Trump, and against the lies and hypocrisy of the Left.

But Tucker is a bit of an erudite - an ivory tower gentleman conservative in the mold of William Buckley.

No shame in that, except he seems to have a blind spot when it comes to politics - he just doesn’t get the visceral connection between Donald Trump, the street fighter, and the common man.

I suspect that if this was the 1980s, Tucker Carlson would be a staunch defender of Ronald Reagan but at the same time he would be one of the pearl clutchers constantly second guessing Reagan, fearing his agenda was being coopted, fearing the President was weak and overpowered by those around him. He would have whined “let Reagan be Reagan!”.

Don’t get me wrong. I never miss Tucker Carlson’s show - that’s how good I think he is. We are very fortunate to have him.

But once every two weeks or so, he embarrasses himself as he did last night, by joining the Leftist and RINO chorus of people saying Trump should stop tweeting, be more “Presidential”, be smarter and play by the Queen’s rules.

I’m sorry, but a big part of President Trump’s appeal is precisely what Tucker Carlson and others complain about. The same things that are “reckless” and “dumb” to Tucker are exactly what I find refreshing.

I love it that he is coarse, reckless and disrespectful in his tweets and press conferences - it is a way of verbally giving his enemies the finger. Some people are too genteel to understand this, but a huge part of middle America has been waiting for a leader that tells liars to go to hell and flips them the bird.

[SamAdams76]

You actually pay attention to MSM polls?

America LOVES Trump!

[Major Matt Mason]

Now that Trump is at 50%, the Democrats will gin up a new line of attack to try to drive the poll number down. It never fails.

[babble-on]

Oh, that’s right. Rasmussen got 2018 completely wrong. I knew it was one or the other.

[Sam Gamgee]

OAN is really the only TV media that supports Trump. FNC surely doesn’t and is still pushing its fake polls showing Biden ahead.

[depressed in 06]

60% of the electorate votes. The Bolshies have convinced the slimes and others that the missing 40% is Bolshekrat. Trump beat Hitlery 60 to 62 million votes. I would like to see Trump beat BiteMe 60-40%. Personally, I think it should be 80-20%.

Ted was my choice, but, I am not sure Ted could have pulled off the things Trump has. Bolshekrat would be my last choice.

[RayChuang88]

I think Trump’s rising Rasmussen poll numbers are in reaction to Trump actually sending federal officials to defend the federal courthouse in Portland Oregon and Democrats and the media complaining about it.

Now to mention the Portland Mayor's attempt to "negotiate" with the rioters and it completely backfired on the Mayor. 😏

[RayChuang88]

History will show that instigating BLM and associated riots were the biggest mistake the Democrats made in this election cycle. The communities being destroyed are mostly minority areas and that’s being noted by many.

Not to mention the riots are making people look at the tactics of the Nazi Sturmabteilung and German Communist Antifaschistische Aktion of circa 1928-1933 and wonder why that is a terrible idea.

[enumerated]

It is frustrating often it can be proved that polls are worthless, but then, ten minutes later, people go right back to believing them.

I guess it’s because polls are all we have - the “better than nothing” fallacy.

I’ve seen this over and over again with the Corona virus statistics.

I say to my friend: “the statistics being reported are not trustworthy - the virus is real, but because of the unscientific way data is being collected and reported, we can draw no useful conclusions. For example, they report that the number of new daily “positives” increased by 20% without admitting that the total number of tests increased by 50%. Without that context, the data is meaningless.”

My friend says: “Then how do you explain the surge in cases?”

My jaw drops, because I thought I just answered that. The fact is, a lot of people will believe official reported statistics, no matter how flawed, unless you can give them a different official reported statistic to believe. It is not enough to discredit an official report, you must provide an alternative.

This is how brainwashing works - people desperately want to believe SOMETHING.