Posted on 09/17/2018 1:03:11 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Pollster Mallory Newall said on Monday that hurricanes are not likely to impact President Trump's approval rating, given how steady it has been recently.
"What strikes me about President Trump's approval rating is that it has been remarkably steady for months, and even in the face of different newsworthy events, a hurricane or a tropical storm being one of them, he tends to hover around the low to mid-forty percent range," Newall, research director at Ipsos Public Affairs, told Hill.TV's Joe Concha on "What America's Thinking."
"If you look at this trend over time, it's been remarkably steady for months," she added.
Her remarks come as the administration works to deal with the effects of Hurricane Florence, which has brought large amounts of flooding to North Carolina.
Trump has faced backlash for his administration's response to Hurricane Maria, which caused widespread damage in Puerto Rico last year.
A new Hill.TV survey found that only 33 percent of Americans said Trump did enough in responding to the hurricane on the island.
HarrisX Poll CEO Dritan Nesho said the federal government's response to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in the mainland U.S., versus its response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico could prove to be problematic for Trump.
"The optics of Puerto Rico are bad. It happened right after the hurricanes in Texas and in Florida, and actually when you compare the two, that's what really looks bad," Nesho said on Hill.TV.
"It seems like the federal government was on point for both Texas and Florida, but when it came to Puerto Rico, it was an afterthought," he continued. "That's what's so problematic about this continuing conversation, and Trump coming out so strongly against the fact that the response might have been or was underwhelming."
This latest hurricane is now largely about flooding. What could Trump do to prevent flooding?
Poll numbers regarding the hurricane will not affect Trump but it won't stop Democrats from trying.
Since flooding is now the issue, I have to wonder how Democrats will try to tie Trump to flooding.
'Global warming and sea rise' are obvious but will they try to blame him for waters not receding quickly enough?
Democrats aren't going to let this hurricane pass without trying to capitalize on it and blaming Trump.
The question is what specific issue will they attack Trump with.
What hurricanes?
At the end of the day this was a run-of-the-mill CAT 1 storm. The type the southeast dealt with all the time back before The Weather Channel went whipping-up everything into frenzy.
And Trump’s FEMA response was rather competent compared to prior ones.
Good point. What hurricanes?
Probably because North and South Carolina governors aren’t likely to race to a microphone to declare Trump the devil like the Mayor of San Jaun, Governor of NJ did of Romney while hugging Obama (Sandy) and the Mayor of New Orleans (Katrina) did regarding Bush.
Trump is a logistics man
On to next week's phony manufactured outrage.
Lefties are dismayed there are not hundreds or thouands of dead to blame Trump for.
“What could Trump do to prevent flooding?”
Various parts of Wisconsin are currently flooded. I haven’t heard a SINGLE Leftist in my acquaintance blame President Trump.
If his ratings are in the 40’s, they’re REALLY in the 50’s.
The Enemy Media was PRAYING that Florence would be PDJT’s Katrina.
Sorry, Enemies of America. You FAILED again! MAGA! :)
Well, the MSM gave it their best shot.
Did hurricanes ever hurt a president’s popularity, until the liberals politicized Hurricane Katrina against Bush?
Maybe this page of their playbook has to be retired? They have tried, without success, to make Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico into Trump’s Katrina. Now with this one, are they even trying to bash Trump over it?
Well, I blame Trump for the hurricane!
What the heck. Trump is a Republican president, hurricanes ARE his fault!
Trump’s approval rating will likely not be impacted by hurricanes, “dammit” says pollster
And I put much of the blame squarely on Bush. His tepid response from the ongoing barrage was completely unwarranted and unfair. But Bush, ever the gentleman, barely said a word and the Democrats knowingly false narrative become baked in as fact -- despite Ray Nagan and the mismanagement of local officials. Subsequent official report pointed this out in spades.
So yeah, if Bush would have defended himself we wouldn't have this false narrative that Katrina was a Bush disaster.
I wonder if anybody could possibly think of a geographic reason why the response was more effective in Texas and Florida than it was in Puerto Rico.
Now, the media’s ratings???
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“The question is what specific issue will they attack Trump with.”
Few casualties=Trump’s a racist who ignored Puerto Rico but favors his people in the Carolinas
Many casualties=Trump’s a science denier who brought on a climate disaster
The Deep State has never encountered a patriot who would stand up to them. Until now. Today we all know the answer - fight back, no matter how trivial their current incremental encroachment on freedom may be. We are facing pure evil, and giving in on small things only emboldens them to grab for more freedom from us. The only solution is to go Trump on them. Never give in. Never surrender. Never apologize. Just fight without ceasing against the evil of the globalist left and of socialism in general.
Trump talked a Category 3 down to Category 1 in about 12 hours. Surely he should get a big bump.
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