Posted on 06/08/2018 5:35:43 AM PDT by blam
The bleak presidential portrait painted by the media keeps getting darker:
Donald Trump is spinning out of control, calling the Mueller probe unconstitutional, claiming he can pardon himself, embracing a lawyer who says he could shoot Jim Comey and not be indicted. He is slapping tariffs on allies and launching a global trade war. He couldn't welcome the Super Bowl champs to the White House without being divisive. He is at war with a porn star. He is accusing the press of a disinformation campaign. He insulted Canada without even knowing the details of the War of 1812.
And Time's cover portrays him as a lordly king, besotted by "visions of absolute power."
So how is it that Trump’s approval rating has bounced back to 45 percent in the new Fox News poll, and 44 percent in the Wall Street Journal/NBC poll?
While that's not a fabulous number, it's roughly where Barack Obama was for several years, and hardly the statistic you'd expect from someone on the verge of political oblivion.
One obvious answer is the economy, stupid. We are at 3.8 percent unemployment, matching the lowest number in decades. And more than half in the Fox poll approve of Trump's handling of the economy.
But it goes deeper than that. Much of the public simply isn't breathlessly following all the scandal stuff and controversies and flap-of-the-day flareups the way the press corps is. Many voters shrug off his provocations and exaggerations because they think he is delivering for them on kitchen-table issues and like his economic warfare against China. Trump has also consolidated his Republican support to a remarkable degree; except for some contrarian lawmakers and conservative pundits, he is the GOP.
After more than 16 months in office, despite the media's hair-on-fire approach, the country is growing
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Americans are tired of the anti-American left.
So much win!
I don’t doubt his approval ratings would be higher if the media were not actively, desperately doing everything they could to discredit him and everything he does.
Larry Sabato: “You need to add 10 points to any Trump poll.”
Ras yesterday was 49%
Trump, in reality, is in mid-50s with “likely voters.”
Exactly right!!
If he, Trump, had the fawning, lapdog, sycophant, toady press that Obama had, which never found any fault with him, never talked about his many scandals, celebrated his Nobel Prize he won for doing absolutely nothing and always referred to him as more brilliant than everyone else in the room … why yes, I believe under those circumstances Trump’s approval numbers would be somewhat higher.
I believe President Trump's support is much more than reported.
Well, hey, let’s be fair. Obama did “do something” to get his Nobel. He had the fortunate, for him, accident of being born half black with well-to-do leftist grandparents who got him a good education and introduced him to leftist politics. People like Ayers and Soros helped launch his career and speed his way to the presidency. The Nobel leftists then handed Obama his bought-and-paid-for prize for nothing more than being of the correct ethnicity and political persuasion.
“grandparents who got him a good education........”
Too bad he didn’t use that “good education” for good instead of evil.
The leftist media is becoming a caricature of itself.
You can only push an insane meme so far. Their credibility is gone.
The author missed the point. Trump is now seen as the political opposition to elitist snobbery. Whether by planning, luck, or instinct, the move was genius. And the snobs are now so bitter about it they are always badly overeacting and turning more people towards Trump.
None of my Catholic friends who supported Trump have changed their minds. Likewise my relatives who supported him.
So I do not sense any change in support among the 2016 electorate. With the improvements in so many things since PDT has been in office, there is no way his favorability among the populace has gone down, and quite the contrary, there is no way it has not VASTLY improved.
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