From Trumps,Hannitys and Buy1Sell2s favorite pollster President Donald Trump's approval rating drops to six-month low of 43% as coronavirus crisis drags on and unemployment mounts to over 16million, poll says Donald Trump’s approval rating has slumped to a six-month low of 43% A total of 56% of voters disapprove of Trump’s work in office, as per Friday poll Trump hit his all time approval high of 47.3 on March 31, but that number has plummeted to 44.9 percent following a spike in unemployment this month Over the past three weeks over 16million Americans applied for unemployment As of Sunday there are over 530,000 cases of coronavirus and over 20,000 deaths in the US President Donald Trump’s approval rating has slumped to a six-month low of 43 percent as the coronavirus crisis drags into its third month. A total of 56 percent of voters disapprove of Trump’s job performance in office, according to a Friday Rasmussen Reports poll of 500 likely voters. Those latest numbers include 30 percent of likely voters who strongly approve of Trump’s job in office and 44 percent who strong disapprove, resulting in a presidential approval index rating of -14. On this day in 2012 when Barack Obama was in office, his approval rating was 49 percent. Trump hit his all time approval high of 47.3 on March 31, but that number has plummeted to 44.9 percent, according to a RealClear Politics polling average. Over the past month, Trump’s approval numbers have dramatically risen and fallen as the nation is reels from over 500,000 cases of COVID-19 and over 20,000 deaths, and businesses go out of business and unemployment hits record numbers. A record high of 6.6million Americans filed first-time unemployment claims last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Last week's numbers bring the total claims over the past three weeks to more than 16million. Comparing those claims to the 151million people on payrolls in the last monthly employment report, means the US has lost 10 percent of its workforce. That's about a 14.7 percent real-time unemployment rate for the week ending in April 4, according to Fortune. That rate is the highest the US has seen since 1940. Across the country food banks have been inundated with long lines as unemployment spikes and families find themselves low on cash. Food banks have been struggling to keep up with unprecedented demand, especially this week as the country observes major religious holidays of Passover and Easter. On Saturday, Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County hosted a drive-thru food distribution in Anaheim, California, meant to provide food to people most affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The three-hour event was stocked with enough food for up to 7,000 families, with each car in the line being given a bag each of potatoes, onions, shelf-stable grocery items and King’s Hawaiian Bread, KTLA reported. In Honolulu, Hawaii, a two-mile-long line of cars awaited the Salvation Army's drive-thru emergency food distribution Saturday, Hawaii News Now reported. People waited as long as two hours to receive their food packages. All told, the Salvation Army said that it given food to nearly 700 cars, with multiple families inside one car, indication that thousands of people had actually been given food. Feeding America - the largest hunger-relief organization in the country - told Good Morning America that it estimates it will need to feed an additional 17.1million people - many of who are relying on food banks for the first time - as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. This, on top of the 37million people that were previously food insecure, including 11million children and 5.5million seniors. 'I’ve never witnessed a system being more strained,' Feeding America CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot said. 'For the first time probably in our history, we’ve had to turn some people away,' she said, not that 'We don’t want to do that, ever.'
https://www.businessinsider.com/approval-of-trump-on-coronavirus-is-underwater-for-first-time-2020-4 Americans' approval of the Trump administration's handling of the coronavirus has been steadily falling, but for the first time it's net negative President Donald Trump's approval rating for how he's handled the coronavirus outbreak is underwater for the first time since March 1 in Morning Consult's polling. In the April 10 to 12 version of the survey, 45% of respondents approved of Trump's handling of the crisis compared with 49% who disapproved, leaving him with a net negative approval of four percentage points. In the previous poll, conducted between April 3 and 5, Trump had a net positive approval rating of one percentage point, with 48% approval and 47% disapproval. President Donald Trump's approval rating for how he's handled the coronavirus outbreak is underwater for the first time since March 1 in Morning Consult's polling. Trump's approval rating for his handling of the coronavirus crisis has fallen from 53% in the March 17 to 20 version of the company's poll to 45% in the April 10 to 12 survey, which polled 1,987 registered voters. In the same amount of time, Trump's disapproval rating has increased by 10 percentage points, from 39% between March 17 and 20 to 49% between April 10 and 12, leaving him with a net negative approval rating of four percentage points in the latest poll. In the previous poll, conducted from April 3 to 5, Trump had a net positive approval rating of one percentage point, with 48% approval and 47% disapproval. Each of Morning Consult's approval polls surveys about 2,000 registered voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points. On Saturday, The New York Times published a lengthy investigation of all the instances Trump brushed aside warnings of the severity of the coronavirus crisis, failed to act, and was delayed by significant infighting and mixed messages from the White House over which action to take and when. The Times conducted dozens of interviews with current and former officials and obtained 80 pages of emails from a number of public-health experts both within and outside the federal government who sounded the alarm about the severity of the crisis in an email chain they called "Red Dawn." In addition to Trump's Morning Consult approval rating now being underwater, he remains one of the least trusted officials on the coronavirus crisis in Insider polling. In a SurveyMonkey Audience poll conducted from April 10 to 11, Insider asked respondents to rank 10 top public officials on a scale from 1 to 5 on how much they trusted the person for official guidance on the coronavirus crisis. While respondents ranked Dr. Anthony Fauci and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo the highest, Trump came in second-to-last place, receiving an average rank of 2.48 out of 5. His son-in-law, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, came in last place with a score of 2.35 out of 5.