[ April 16, 2024 ]
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 53% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Imagine if we had an objective press ….
The latest figures include 37% who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing and 36% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of +1. (see trends).
Trump is Popping in the Polls
Watch most cable or network news shows and the message is clear — President Donald Trump is unpopular, especially compared to the dozens of fresh faces attempting to challenge him for the White House in 2020. Some of the faces are not so fresh as three of the leading contenders — Biden, Sanders, and Warren are septuagenarians.
Story continues below advertisementA Commentary By Brian C. Joondeph, Rasmussen Reports , April 09, 2019Despite the exonerating Mueller report, Trump is still on the ropes, about to be impeached, a Russian agent, and so on. Trump is also a Nazi, racist, homophobe, Islamophobe, and sexist pig. Nobody likes him. At least that’s what CNN says.
If this was truly the case, Trump should be polling in the low 30s at best, with most of the country giving him and his administration a thumbs down on performance and results. Yet reality is far different. In the media bubble, where journalists all live in the same neighborhoods, kids attend the same schools, all go to the same parties and belong to the same tennis and fitness clubs, there are no MAGA hats to be seen.
Outside the bubble, the picture is far different, even if the smart set at MSNBC and the New York Times choose not to see it. What do opinion polls say?
Rasmussen has the well-deserved reputation as the most accurate pollster, based on being the closest of all major polling organization in predicting the results of the 2016 presidential election.
In their daily presidential tracking poll, as of Friday April 5, President Trump had a 51 percent total approval number. Most of this calendar year, despite the constant drumbeat of Russian collusion, his approval number has been in the mid to high 40s, ranging from a low of 43 percent to a high of 52 percent since January 1.
For comparison, President Obama, exactly eight years ago on April 5, 2011, was at 47 percent approval, with numbers ranging from the mid to high 40s, occasionally hitting 50 percent, much the same as President Trump.
At first glance, one might say both presidents were equally popular at the same points of their respective presidencies. And both went on to be reelected for a second term. Fair enough — but there is more.
What shapes public opinion in significant part? The media. What has the media’s role been in influencing opinion during the Obama versus Trump presidencies?
Media coverage of President Trump has been almost exclusively negative. NewsBusters reported 90 percent negative coverage of Trump during 2018, matching similarly negative coverage in 2017. But without effect, as they note.
“At the midpoint of Donald Trump’s first term, the establishment media’s obvious hostility shows no signs of relenting, but polls show this negative coverage has had no discernible impact on the public’s attitudes toward the President.”
According to Pew Research, another polling firm, news stories about Trump were only 5 percent positive in 2017, compared to 42 percent positive for President Obama in 2009. And yet in public opinion polls such as Rasmussen, the two presidents poll similarly, with Trump having a slight edge.
It’s not just Trump. George W. Bush had 22 percent positive media coverage with Bill Clinton at 27 percent positive. It’s more than clear that Obama was the media’s favorite with Trump being their redheaded stepchild.
Imagine Trump’s approval ratings if he had media coverage similar to that of his predecessor? I realize that could not happen, as most of the mainstream media and the Democratic Party are one and the same. But if Trump had 42 percent positive coverage as did Obama, his approval number would likely be at 60 percent or higher.
Do the recent midterm elections provide any clues as to Trump’s prospects of reelection in 2020? The Washington Post surprisingly acknowledged, “If the midterms were a referendum, Trump won.” CNN had a similar take on the midterms, “President Donald Trump’s poll numbers are bad, but here’s why he could win in 2020.”
CNN did something most out of character, they cited a Fox News Poll. Normally they are quite critical of Fox, partially out of ratings envy and partially because they believe Fox, Trump, and Russia are the triumvirate of illegal collusion. But said poll from a month after the midterms found that only 39 percent of voters think Trump will be reelected.
That’s not at all surprising if you get your news from CNN, MSNBC, or any of the other major networks, or if you read the New York Times or Washington Post , and hear a constant drumbeat of Trump negativity, including predictions of his imminent indictment and impeachment for being a Russian agent and a traitor.
As some point, readers and listeners begin believing that Trump’s days are numbered. It’s the Stockholm syndrome for those of us held hostage by the mainstream media.
Even Trump himself admitted before the 2016 election, “That like many in the country and worldwide, he ‘sort of’ thought he was going to lose.” Why not? Trump is a news junkie and he heard the same claptrap from the media that the rest of us hear every day. Sure, he had his own internal polling, but when every news show on TV and every newspaper predicts Hillary Clinton winning in a landslide, even candidate Trump believed it to some degree.
In fleeting moments of honesty, some news organizations admit the obvious. From the Atlantic , “Why Trump is the favorite in 2020.” Or from another far-left news outlet the Daily Beast , “Trump should have a 70 percent chance of winning in 2020.”
His recent Rasmussen numbers are optimistic, but don’t expect Trump to be complacent, and neither should his supporters. His campaign organization now has a winning election under its belt and will be even more formidable in 2020 compared to 2016. The Democratic field of challengers are hacks who don’t hold a candle to Trump in terms of charisma and connection to the voters. Their ideas are as stale as month-old Russian borscht, resurrected from the grand ideas of the old Soviet Politburo, with some Democrat candidates as old as the last general secretaries of the Soviet Union.
Much can happen between now and November 2020, but if Trump pushes onward with his agenda, he will be tough to beat. The nail in the Democratic coffin is Trump building the wall, stopping illegal immigration, declassifying the FISA warrants, and punishing those who seditiously lied to Congress, the courts, and the American people.
This election is his to lose and despite the incessant whining from Democrats and the media, his poll numbers and momentum favor a big win in 2020.
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16 Comments
5 years ago
The new Poll indicating Trump’s overall approval rating is on the rise is positive. The MSM, of course, will flutter and blow-wind with unbridled bias, and their old stand-by shtick, fake-news.
The American people, perhaps are opening their eyes that the perfidious, treacherous Democratic-Nazi Party is a threat to every Americans Constitutional Rights. A corrupt Party of hatred, anti-Semitism that propagates a totalitarian mandate akin to that of Nazism. A gaggle of anti-American, Jew-Hating, Christian-Hating that has chosen to align itself with Islam Theocracy not that of our Constitutional Republic. The Democrats’ history is one of corruption, racism using the race-card to its advantage, not that of those on the periphery of American society.
Antisemitism is now rampant throughout the party and its Progressive-Fascist tagalong bigots; most of whom deem themselves elitist, privileged and not unlike Nazism, superhuman. Those of us everyday Americans hold no concern in the fetid mandate of the Democrats, we are dispensable, deplorable and if the Democrats were to regain power; ‘We the People’ will be relegated to the periphery, the marginalized of American society.
5 years ago
Let us hope that the media continues to bad mouth the
president, while never acknowledging his accomplishments that have all
benefited America, and moved it back towards its “Greatness,” a position
effectively lost during Obama’s terms. That would now be the best for his
re-election, as the failure to relinquish their bias and what today looks like anti-Semitism,
promoted by the Islamic belief system, would have the effect of enabling his re-election
teams to overreach the media in getting his message and his accomplishments to
the electorate. Sure, there are those within the electorate that vote Democrat
no matter how bad their agenda is, if one exists, but I strongly believe that
the socialist approach will be rejected by most of the electorate that will
conclude that our society and economy is best the way it presently is, and to
change it as the Democrats want will result in significant damage to this
country and its ability to defend itself. I hope the pro-Trumper’s continue to
speak out, and promote the conduct that will make “America Great Again.”
5 years ago
Trump is doing good and fighting back for American citizens not politicians/corporates
Re-Elect Trump again if America has to be saved from becoming another Left/liberal garbage country like EU/UKistan
Sharia Police in Uk are not willing to protect those who speak truth about islam https://tinyurl.com/ya6j3phj
Instead go after those who expose the jihadi crimes and oppose their Left/Liberal supporters !
5 years ago
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Suresh
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5 years ago
I’d bet it is higher than that…
Feel free to substitute,
“Islam is a religion of peace” for Obama or any other irrational issue liberals promote.
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5 years ago
Our liberal media knows all about this.
Hopefully they now know the liberal media lies all the time and
is selective on news coverage that doesn’t agree with their agenda.
http://9buz.com/content/uploads/images/October2014/The_people_will_believe_what_the_media_tells_them_they_believe_9buz.jpg
5 years ago
Trump has a chance to snatch a nice chunk (>25%?) of the black vote, a nice chunk (>35%?) of the Hispanic vote, more Jews then ever as a Republican (>30%?) which will give him a nice starting point for a 2020 Victory
As POTUS, Trump has the constitutionally mandated (100%, irrefutably supported by US law) prerogative to declassify WHAT EVER THE FCUK HE WANTS!!!! (sans Sources & Methods, Grand Jury evidence that would invoke privacy concerns) WITH OUT pre or post fact “permission” from Congress, Trump Definitely KNOWS this fact
Given the above and Trump being a farsighted Strategic actor (regardless of the unpolished / unsophisticated / blunt image he is consistently projecting), I strongly believe (we got many hints on this issue in the last 12 months…) that Tramp has a large arsenal of “Killer” declassification “bombs” (The FISA documents would be a great start) he will drop on the Democrats + Media + ‘Deep State’ Traitors capable of destroying the Entire establishment (Democrats+RINO’s, MSM, ‘Deep State’) house of cards
I believe that Trump will continue his current “rope a dope” strategy for at least a few days / weeks (at most) after the submission of of the redacted Muller report (bringing us to early / mid May), but then “Killer” declassification “bombs” (“tactical” at first…) will start falling onto Democrat / Traitor territory…
By year end, Trump can utterly DECIMATE the Democratic+RINO establishment for a generation, just by disseminating (after a proper declassification process) multiple (in the hundreds or more…) KEY Damning documents that will FINALLY rip the lid off the cesspool of wide and deep, DC corruption
5 years ago
If accurate, this is a very very good sign that he (and we) can have hope and use that to continue doing are part.
5 years ago
One area I would like Trump to address is the power of the media in a few peoples control with limited views given and to their demands.
Love to see this power broken up and have not have so much control across all platforms of communication. This goes for many areas where big business owns so much control and as we see the danger we have just in the media. The more big business is broken up the more competition there is and takes the monoploly out of a few and puts it into many hands that do not wield such power to influence politics.
5 years ago
Biggest enemy we have is the uneducated and it is increasing at alarming rates with the young in this world of information available.
The history book of the young today are the mobile telephone sharing chats and not wanting to know history and what the world is up to
5 years ago
Good to see polls have Trump with such high scores. Imagine if the media was on Trumps side we would not hear from the left as they would be no more and behind bars.
One good reason to boost borders is Measles. Australia in 2014 was declared Measles free, today it has 84 cases and increasing. One in Five Hundred die. Seems like New York has problems with Measles.
Time to shut all borders, you do not come into countries without vaccinations and one not allowed to go to countries with out right vaccinations
5 years ago
Keep going into the various states, Mr.Pres. Those rallys are great.
5 years ago
I am glad to see our president going up in the polls and expect it will go up more.
5 years ago
God bless Trump! (GBT!)
5 years ago
Nice to have a “respected” leader in the WH again after being vacant for eight years and occupied by an illegal alien that hated and still hates America.
