Posted on 05/03/2019 11:08:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
As usual, there are some worrisome data points in a generally Trump-positive poll, but start with the good news for the president: A new national survey from CNN shows public support for his handling of the economy hitting a new high, with Trump also above water on another important metric. On the heels of a better-than-expected quarter of GDP growth (the US economy has grown at an average clip of better than three percent since the GOP tax reform law was implemented), even a Trump-skeptical to -hostile electorate can recognize prosperity when they see it. And the man at the top is getting credit:
CNN poll: Trump +15 on the economy, +4 on keeping promises. https://t.co/1zW0e47qs1— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) May 2, 2019
President Trump’s approval rating on the economy has hit a new high, according to a CNN poll released on Thursday. A majority of respondents — 56 percent — said they approve of Trump’s handling of the economy, compared with 41 percent who disapproved. The president's previous high mark on the economy in the CNN poll came in March 2017, when 55 percent approved of his work.
I also find this nugget interesting: "Fifty percent of those polled in the new survey said he has done a good job at keeping the promises the made on the campaign trail. Forty-six percent said he had done a poor job and 4 percent had no opinion." This has to be welcome news to the re-elect team, considering Trump's repeated use of the slogan, "promises made, promises kept." A majority of voters apparently agree. As for the downsides, the president is upside-down on healthcare (38 percent approval) and immigration (42 percent approval) -- and his overall job approval rating, despite hitting its best mark in this polling series in a year, is still only 43 percent. Fifty-two percent disapprove. As I've said before, Trump's re-election will depend on the economy's continued thriving, and his ability to win over a significant chunk of voters who approve of him on that issue, in spite of their qualms about his leadership on the whole.
It could certainly help his cause that leading Democratic presidential hopefuls continue to call for large tax increases on the middle class, having swallowed their own dishonest talking points about the Trump-signed tax cuts. As a refresher, 80 percent of all Americans received a tax cut in 2018 thanks to the new law, including roughly 91 percent of middle class filers. Repealing that law, as Democrats are demanding, would jack up taxes on the lopsided majority of the electorate. Joe Biden got in on the act, falsely claiming that tax reform merely benefited the rich and corporations, earning himself Four Pinocchios from the Washington Post's fact checker:
WaPo Fact checker: Biden’s false claim that no one but the rich got Trump’s tax cuts https://t.co/AqSGJLpklt— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 1, 2019
“There’s a $2 trillion tax cut last year. Did you feel it? Did you get anything from it? Of course not. Of course not. All of it went to folks at the top and corporations.”
"That's simply wrong," the Post concludes. Indeed it is, and by agitating for repeal, Democrats run the political risk of being accurately painted as middle class tax-raisers. That would be the literal consequence of their preferred policy outcome. Finally, since we're on the subject of Trump approval, I'll leave you with a progress report on perhaps his most important presidential legacy to date:
The Senate just confirmed President Trump’s 100th judge. https://t.co/LQn2MQYSAK— Garrett Ventry (@GarrettVentry) May 2, 2019
Here's Mitch McConnell talking up that progress, some of which he attributes to the "modest step" we analyzed last month:
UPDATE - This one will make Trump happy, too:
Q-poll: Public now opposes impeachment by 37-point margin, with 70% of independents against the idea. A majority of Democrats favor it, however.https://t.co/LHES7lKesE— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) May 3, 2019
The Democrats have nothing to run on...They have no political platform other than death, debt and decline.
Go Trump!
Hopefully his base gets the arrests we were promised.
I think the MSM needs to step back for a couple of weeks and promote the positives coming from the administration.
CNN headline this morning says economists are worried that economy is overheating.
Can someone explain to me how a POTUS with a 56% approval on the economy doesn’t get re-elected by a likely landslide ?
In what universe does that happen ?
“I think the MSM needs to step back for a couple of weeks of weeks and promote the positives coming from the administration’’. Might as well tell vampires to go get a sun tan.
Winning
Someone remind me please.
What’s a CNN?
“In what universe does that happen?”
In a universe with ballot harvesting and illegals voting.
One of two things will happen:
1. Trump gets re-elected, and in a second term is able to complete a reform of the swamp that devastates the Washington establishment.
2. A Democrat gets elected, and the economy immediately goes into recession.
The battle is for the Federal Reserve.
After 8 years of Obama this is the Trump Correction.
I have no doubt they will dump their stocks again during the election. This time it will be bank stocks which makes it look even worse. Last time it was the tech industry.
Sadly, his success only fuels the hatred of those, who are many, who despise America. And that number includes many in Congress.
NOBODY...
Nurse, can you change the channel...
When Trump announced the infrastructure initiative with ‘’Boris and Natasha’’(Schumer and Pelosi) a number of people here were upset with it. But I knew right away what Trump had done. Not only was he undertaking an important issue but he took away one of the Democrats shiniest baubles , big government public spending projects. If the bill goes thorough Biden or whom ever the Democrat candidate is will have nothing to run on. And the Democrats won’t be able to say no. These are the kind of spending bills they like. These kind of projects are what their home districts, their construction union membership live on. How could they not vote for such things and still hope to stay in office? I’’m not crazy about such spending bills but sometimes you have to to such things.
If O’Bunghole had these economic numbers, Don Lemon would carve his likeness into Mt Rushmore with his bare hands
LMAO...I never get tired of seeing these pics... :o)
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