Fewer than nine months into President Donald Trump’s White House tenure, a Morning Consult survey in all 50 states indicates that voters have grown bearish on his performance in office.
Trump has failed to improve his standing among the public anywhere — including the states he won handily as the Republican nominee during the 2016 presidential election, according to the online survey, which was based on interviews of 472,032 registered voters across each state and Washington, D.C., from Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration to Sept. 26.
In only one state, Wyoming, Trump has a net 40% approval. Everywehere else Trump gets less than 38% approval and even negative approval numbers.
The dive in approval numbers is particularly big in Republican states such as Tennessee (-23 points), Mississippi (-21 points), Kentucky (-20 points), Kansas (-19 points) and Indiana (-17 points). Yes, Indiana. Mike Pence's home state.
This could explain Trump's recent avalanche of racist and downright dangerous posturing in office, eliminating Obama environmental policies, using Dreamers as hostages to get his border wall, threatening to end the Iran deal, spewing racism about the NFL, and making downright false promises such as this one:
Since Congress can't get its act together on HealthCare, I will be using the power of the pen to give great HealthCare to many people - FAST
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 10 de octubre de 2017
False. Trump can't do anything about health care just by the power of executive order (only Congress can change the law). But he's lying anyway,
Which reminds me; According to the Washington Post Trump has made 1,318 false or misleading claims over 263 days, which averages to about 5 lies per day.
So his approval is tanking. But he keeps on doing the same thing that has paved the way for his approval free fall.
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