Posted on 07/31/2018 1:35:23 PM PDT by familyop
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty percent (50%) disapprove.
The latest figures include 35% who Strongly Approve of the way Trump is performing and 43% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -8. (See trends).
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President Trump, who is reimposing sanctions on Iran, after having withdrawn the United States from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and last week exchanged a war of words with Iran’s leaders, said yesterday that he would meet with them without preconditions when they are ready.
Voters here are closely divided over the need to take military action against Iran, but 63% feel the United Nations and the international community should do more – up to and including military action – to stop Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
Further east, U.S. airstrikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan are on the rise, but one-in-five voters aren’t even aware that the 17-year war in Afghanistan is still going on, and fewer see the Middle Eastern nation as a national security interest.
The trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort opens today in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, on charges of bank fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud, stemming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of whether the 2016 Trump campaign illegally colluded with Russians.
Although 48% of voters believe Trump’s presidential campaign was more likely than Clinton's to have illegally colluded with foreign operatives, nearly as many (41%) believe Clinton's campaign is the more likely offender.
It’s been almost two years since Donald Trump was elected president, but for a third of voters, his election has had long-lasting negative effects on relationships with family and friends. Most voters also think Americans are less tolerant of each other’s political opinions these days.
We’ll tell you at 10:30 what effect voters say the secret recording of a conversation with President Trump by his erstwhile attorney, Michael Cohen, will have on the next election.
(More below)
Voters have been cool to single-payer healthcare in the past, but in September they seemed to be slowly coming around to the idea. We’ll tell you tomorrow whether voters are still open to a single-payer system.
It’s amazing that the more Trump is under fire, the better his numbers poll. If I’m not mistaken, his numbers dipped slightly when he had meetings Little Rocket Man which should have made them skyrocket.
Since that week, The Donald's approval ratings keep climbing and the GOP is doing record fundraising. I am going to wait until after November's election to rub his nose in his crap.
Yes, the Helsinki Summit was a difficult time for the President and Administration. They needed to balance a careful, diplomatic, foreign relations approach with needed security changes that were already in progress.
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