Weekly political update – Your thoughts on Trump, Pelosi, Schumer & country
Bottom Line: This is your weekly reality check. What's really going on with public opinion of the president and our view of the direction of the country? Here it is...
- Trump's lowest ratings: 37% approval (8/4/17)
- Trump highest approval ratings: 45% approval (5/10/19)
- Trump's current ratings: 42% approval
Without a doubt the hyped Chinese tariff fears have impacted the president over the past week. He’s off a point or two with all groups of voters this week. No doubt it’s a high stakes standoff but, as I’ve recently pointed out, we heard the same concerns and news stories in January of 2018 with the initial tariffs and all that happened is unemployment reaching 49-year lows, record stock market performance and the best economic growth in a generation.
It’s been the case throughout his term thus far, that the more informed and engaged someone is politically, the more likely they are to approve of President Trump. That remains the case once again this week, but the gap has narrowed.
- Adult only samples averaged: 41%
- Registered voters: 42%
- Likely voters: 47%
What you never hear reported are the ratings of the Democratic leaders opposing him. Let’s just say they’d need a huge push of support to simply catch President Trump’s approval ratings. Here’s the latest...
- Pelosi: 38%
- Schumer: 30%
What does that tell you about what’s really going on in this country? Pelosi is four points behind Trump and Schumer is 12 points behind the president in overall approval. Looking at the direction of the country this week...
Where we stood on Inauguration Day:
- Right Direction: 30%
Today:
- Right Direction: 36%
That’s down two points this week, as it seems that perhaps the tariffs fears perpetuated aggressively in news media over the past week has had an impact. We are still 6% collectively more optimistic than we were during the Obama administration.