The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 47% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty-three percent (53%) disapprove.
Eighty percent (80%) of Republicans approve of the job the president is doing; 82% of Democrats disapprove. Among voters not affiliated with either major party, 46% approve; 54% disapprove.
The latest figures include 31% who Strongly Approve of the way Trump is performing and 44% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -13. (see trends).
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The president has released a proposed budget this morning that increases spending for the military and national security and cuts spending for the State Department, the EPA and other domestic agencies. Republicans are far more supportive of the budget plan than Democrats and voters not affiliated with either major party are.
Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Republicans favor major cuts in the EPA. Just as many Democrats (69%) are opposed.
Voters in general agree, however, that any new spending approved by Congress should be offset by cuts in other areas of the federal budget.
Voters see the president as a man with a mission, more than either of the major political parties including the one he represents. But voters have more confidence that Republicans know where they are going.
As Congress wrestles with changes in Obamacare proposed by House Republicans and endorsed by the president, are voters worried that they will go to far or not go far enough? Find out at 10:30.
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The United States has the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world, but most voters don’t know that. Voters tend to see cutting the corporate tax rate as an economic plus but are evenly divided over the president’s plan to cut it by over half.
Trump’s effort to protect the country from potential terrorists has been halted again by a federal judge. At issue is his revised temporary travel ban on those coming from certain terrorist haven countries. Most voters favored the temporary travel ban when Trump first proposed it.
Just 19% of voters think “The Terminator” should run for the U.S. Senate.
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Some readers wonder how we come up with our job approval ratings for the president since they often don’t show as dramatic a change as some other pollsters do. It depends on how you ask the question and whom you ask.
To get a sense of longer-term job approval trends for the president, Rasmussen Reports compiles our tracking data on a full month-by-month basis.
Rasmussen Reports has been a pioneer in the use of automated telephone polling techniques, but many other firms still utilize their own operator-assisted technology (see methodology).
Daily tracking results are collected via telephone surveys of 500 likely voters per night and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. To reach those who have abandoned traditional landline telephones, Rasmussen Reports uses an online survey tool to interview randomly selected participants from a demographically diverse panel. The margin of sampling error for the full sample of 1,500 Likely Voters is +/- 2.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Results are also compiled on a full-week basis and crosstabs for full-week results are available for Platinum Members.