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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(117,314 posts) Wed Jan 15, 2025, 08:23 PM Wednesday

Trump set to start second term with underwater approval rating

As Donald Trump prepares to take the oath of office for a second time, he claims to have a “massive” mandate to enact his destructive agenda. But new polling shows that’s far from the truth.

A NPR/PBS News/Marist College poll released Wednesday shows that just 44% of Americans view Trump favorably, while 49% view him unfavorably. That’s nearly identical to the 45% approval rating Trump has in Civiqs’ tracking poll.

The fact that Trump is viewed unfavorably before he even takes office is a warning sign for his tenure. The start of a presidential term is usually when a president is at their high-water mark of approval.

When President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, 51% of registered voters approved of the job he was doing on the transition, according to an NPR/PBS News/Marist College poll at the time.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/15/2297068/-Trump-won-the-popular-vote-but-that-doesn-t-mean-Americans-like-him

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Trump set to start second term with underwater approval rating (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday OP

Yea................... Lovie777 Wednesday #1

This will be fun to watch.... Dem4life1970 Wednesday #2

I expect its approval rating never gets any higher. Dorothy V Wednesday #3

i don't expect his approval rating to move much at all during his term Takket Wednesday #4

"start of a presidential term is usually when a president is at their high-water mark of approval" ... and so it is now. eppur_se_muova Yesterday #5

LET'S JUST TELL THE TRUTH -THEY RIGGED IT - IT'S CALLED ELECTION FRAUD autorank Yesterday #6

Lovie777

(15,527 posts)

1. Yea...................

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Jan 15, 2025, 08:33 PM

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but some weird reason he won. Is the USA like a battered country who knows their being abused but still vote against their own interest.

Dem4life1970

(620 posts)

2. This will be fun to watch....

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Jan 15, 2025, 08:56 PM

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...his "concepts of a plan" not only for health care, but lowering prices, ending the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine, conducting mass deportations, ending birthright citizenship, tariffs, you name it, are all very unpopular. Anything bad that happens from Jan. 20th until the midterms happens on his watch. Just a reminder, he is a convicted felon.

Dorothy V

(26 posts)

3. I expect its approval rating never gets any higher.

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Wed Jan 15, 2025, 08:59 PM

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Takket

(22,709 posts)

4. i don't expect his approval rating to move much at all during his term

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Jan 15, 2025, 09:15 PM

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he's convinced that 45ish% that everything good that happens he did himself, and everything bad the happens was done by democrats, and even when the whole country goes in the shitter people will still believe that.

eppur_se_muova

(37,888 posts)

5. "start of a presidential term is usually when a president is at their high-water mark of approval" ... and so it is now.

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Thu Jan 16, 2025, 12:06 AM

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The best thing that could happen to tsf would be a double-scoop, Kentucky-fried thrombus in the brain that will leave him a martyr in the eyes of MAGAthood, before his 'reputation' -- and I use the term loosely -- suffers too much contact with reality.

Then Vance will have to live with years of "you're no Donald Trump !" from the MAGAts, and years of "You totally suck as POTUS !" from the rest of the world.

autorank

(29,476 posts)

6. LET'S JUST TELL THE TRUTH -THEY RIGGED IT - IT'S CALLED ELECTION FRAUD

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Thu Jan 16, 2025, 01:07 AM

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No one can make any sense of the numbers because there is no sense to them.

The tech bros fixed it and Trump probably didn't even know.

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