https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrew...trailing-biden-by-double-digits/#2d0a5fe21824 Rasmussen Reports, a pollster often cited by Trump due to its tendency to give him approval ratings more favorable than those of other pollsters, has him trailing former Vice President Joe Biden by double digits. A Rasmussen poll released Wednesday put Biden 10 points up, with 50% support to Trump’s 40%, doubling his 5-point lead in a Rasmussen poll in May. Biden leads among non-affiliated voters 48% to 36%, while Trump’s approval rating stands at 44%, compared to 54% disapproval. Trump has cited Rasmussen–which has shown him with approval ratings as high as 52%–at least 16 times on Twitter. Trump also tweeted about Rasmussen during the 2016 election, such as an October poll that showed him leading Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton by 3 points, contrary to what most pollsters were showing. This election, however, Rasmussen’s polling makes it very much an inlier with the likes of the New York Times, CNN and Monmouth University, whose polls all show Biden ahead by double digits. Key Background Trump has struggled to find a winning message amid the confluence of several national crises: the coronavirus pandemic, an economic crisis, and civil unrest in the wake of George Floyd’s death. He has so far opted to slam left-wing protesters and violence at George Floyd rallies, ‘cancel culture’ and the vandalism and destruction of statues. News Peg Biden appears to be a historically strong Democratic nominee, outpacing both Clinton and former President Barack Obama at this point in their respective elections. Biden also tends to hold wide leads in critical battleground states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida and Wisconsin, which means he may be well placed to avoid the electoral college pitfalls that led to Trump’s 2016 upset. What To Watch For The Washington Post’s Robert Costa reported Monday that some Trump advisors were looking to turn their attention away from a focus on race and towards “Biden and China.” But Trump does not seem inclined to switch gears. ABC reported Wednesday that aides are considering taking Trump’s rhetoric on statues one step further by bringing statues of the founding fathers to Trump rallies.
New polling from Scott Rasmussen, who founded Donald Trump's favored right-wing polling company, Rasmussen Reports, has shown his lowest-ever recorded approval for the president while also noting that support among Republicans has slipped since mid-June. Meanwhile, as most national and state level polls present a dismal picture of Trump's approval rating and support, five Republican senators have confirmed they will not be attending the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Jacksonville, Florida. GOP Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Susan Collins of Maine and Charles Grassley of Iowa have all said they will not be at the August event. Although an aide to Collins told The Washington Post that she has never attended the national convention during her re-election years, Grassley cited concerns about the surging coronavirus pandemic. Romney and Murkowski have publicly criticized Trump on multiple occasions. Now, Rasmussen's latest polling, which was published Tuesday, shows that Trump's support among Republicans has declined by 4 points since mid-June. It now stands at 80 percent, down from 84 percent. Overall, Rasmussen said he recorded the lowest level of approval he has seen for Trump, at just 39 percent nationwide. Of that total, only 27 percent said they strongly approve. At the same time, 58 percent of respondents said they disapprove of the president, while 47 percent said they strongly disapprove. Notably, Rasmussen is no longer affiliated with Rasmussen Reports, having left the company in 2013. Trump has frequently cited Rasmussen Reports, which typically appears to be more favorable to the president than other public polling companies, to tout his support from Americans. Rasmussen Reports currently shows 45 percent of Americans approving of the president, with 53 percent disapproving. Rasmussen's latest polling aligns with Gallup, which showed the president's approval rating standing at just 38 percent at the end of June. However, Gallup reported that 91 percent of Republicans still approved of the president, a decline of just 2 points since February. Newsweek reached out to the Trump campaign for comment but did not hear back in time for publication. Previously, the campaign has been dismissive of public polling in statements to Newsweek and other media outlets. It has argued that many public polling companies lean Democratic and are biased against Trump. Campaign officials point to 2016 as well, when many polls showed former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was far ahead of Trump. Clinton went on to lose by a significant margin in the Electoral College, although she won the popular vote by nearly 3 million more votes than Trump. The president's approval rating has dropped noticeably as the coronavirus pandemic has worsened nationwide. The U.S. continues to be the country with the highest number of infections and deaths. As of Wednesday, more than 3 million Americans have been infected with the virus, and more than 130,000 have died. Those numbers are approximately a quarter of the global totals.
All Trump did was boost production and oarjet diversification in China and give them the push to further strengthen their military. The point where the US can no longer fight with asymmetric advantage and will actually get hurt, probably jumped a decade closer under Trump. Trump on most things he has done has been Indy in Raiders of the Lost Ark. A lot of commotion but what did he actually succeed in?
President Donald Trump is facing broad disapproval for his management of the two major crises gripping the nation, with two-thirds of Americans giving him low marks for both his response to the coronavirus pandemic and his handling of race relations, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll released Friday. Evaluation of Trump's oversight of the COVID-19 crisis reached a new low since ABC News/Ipsos began surveying on the coronavirus in March, with 67% disapproving of his efforts. One-third of the country approves of the president's oversight of the pandemic. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling the response to the coronavirus (COVID-19)? Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling the response to the coronavirus (COVID-19)? ABC News/Ipsos Poll Over nearly four months of polling, Trump's approval has mostly held steady, except for one week in mid-March, when it spiked above 50%. In the last month, Trump's approval dipped to a range between the high 30s and low 40s, as the U.S. saw a resurgence of coronavirus cases, particularly across the south and west. In the newest poll, which was conducted by Ipsos in partnership with ABC News using Ipsos’ Knowledge Panel, Trump's approval rating on his job dealing with the coronavirus dropped another rung, driven by plunging support among independents and even waning support among Republicans. Democrats have always been highly skeptical. MORE: Approval of Trump's coronavirus response underwater, as he returns to campaign trail: POLL Trump's approval among independents lands at 26% in the survey, a sharp drop from 40% in mid-June, the last time the question was asked. Trump's disapproval among independents has risen to 73%, up from 59% in the June poll. Within his own party, Republicans are less inclined to back him in the newest poll, with only 78% approving of the president's handling of the coronavirus, compared to 90% in mid-June. His disapproval of 22% in the new poll is a more than two-fold increase from last month. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling race relations? Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling race relations? ABC News/Ipsos Poll In a variety of demographic groups, there are clear and consistent shifts in support away from the president. Men (66%) and women (67%), in near equal measure, disapprove of the president's coronavirus response, which represents a double-digit increase among men since the June poll, when 54% disapproved. Even white Americans without a college degree, considered to be a core constituency of Trump's base, are split in their approval of the president's handling, with 50% disapproving and 49% approving, compared to 42% disapproving and 57% approving in that last poll. MORE: Country at war with COVID-19 sees rising concerns over virus: POLL The newest numbers come as Trump continues to downplay the threat posed by the virus, even as confirmed cases climb. Earlier this week, Trump falsely claimed that "99 percent of [coronavirus cases] are totally harmless," while casting the movement to remove statues of controversial figures in the country's history as the most pressing threat to the nation. Trump's focus on what he called an "angry mob" looking to "tear down our statues" and "erase our history," comes as the country continues to reel from the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, who died on Memorial Day after he was pinned down by a white Minnesota police officer, and the nationwide unrest over racial injustice that followed. The new poll comes amid debates over renaming and removing statues that bear the names of Confederate figures, and after Mississippi lawmakers voted to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag. Americans are more than eight times as likely to have a negative reaction to the Confederate flag than a positive one, the new poll finds, marking a shift from just five years ago. In a 2015 poll from Pew Research Center, 13% said they had a positive reaction to the Confederate flag, compared to 28% who said they had a negative reaction. Now, only 5% say they have a positive reaction to the defining emblem of the Confederacy, while 43% have a negative one. Still, a majority of Americans, both in 2015 and now, said they had neither a positive or negative reaction to the flag. A negative reaction is even more pronounced for black Americans, who are more than two times as likely as white Americans to have a negative reaction to the Confederate flag, 76%-37%. Just over four in 10 Hispanics have a negative reaction to the banner. The reckoning over race comes over three years into Trump's presidency, throughout which, he has invoked inflammatory rhetoric on the issue. Trump is seeing his approval broadly underwater for his handling of race relations, even across all racial groups. More than half (57%) of white Americans, and overwhelming majorities of black Americans (92%) and Hispanics (83%) disapprove of the president’s handling of this issue. MORE: 74% of Americans view George Floyd's death as an underlying racial injustice problem: POLL Although his approval among Republicans falls at 78% on race relations, this is far less than the strong majority of Democrats (91%) who disapprove of the president on this issue. Independents (74% disapprove) are also deeply skeptical of the president’s handling of race relations. The faltering numbers for Trump are also accompanied by concerns over the country's path to reopening. A majority of Americans (59%) believe the push to reopen the economy is moving too quickly, similar to a June 26 ABC News/Ipsos poll when it was 56%. Currently, 15% think the country is moving too slowly, and 26% think the country is moving at the right pace. Do you think the U.S. is reopening the economy too quickly, too slowly, or at about the right pace? Do you think the U.S. is reopening the economy too quickly, too slowly, or at about the right pace? ABC News/Ipsos Poll The more reticent attitudes about reopening the economy appear to challenge Trump's aggressive push to return the country to normal. On Wednesday, the president threatened to "cut off funding" to schools that don't reopen in the fall and criticized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's guidance as "very tough," "expensive" and "impractical." By Thursday morning, Dr. Robert Redfield, who heads the CDC, told ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos on "Good Morning America" that the agency's guidance for protecting against the novel coronavirus remains the same but that they will be providing "additional reference documents" to aid communities wanting to reopen their K-12 schools this fall.