Tracking Trump - The President's approval for September 1st:
Bottom Line: This is one of two weekly tracking stories to get a reality/temperature check with regard to what's really going on with public opinion of the President. In this series we'll track the high point, low point and current ratings and week over week comparisons.
Trump's lowest ratings: 36.8% approval and 58.6% disapprove: -21.8% (8/4/17)
Trump highest approval ratings were an average 45.2% approval and 43% disapproval +2.2% (1/27/17)
Trump's current ratings: 38.6% approval and 57.2% disapprove: -18.6%
President Trump's approval ratings dropped a point this week. Still if he's looking for a silver lining, it's that he actually exited August with a higher approval rating than he entered it. That's a month that included the fallout from Charlottesville as well.
I've advanced the idea that there can come a point in which the media and political adversaries of the President could overplay their hand. That may well have been the case. Again it's worth noting that if the media had as much sway as they wish they did, or that we still sometimes assume they do, there's no way that Donald Trump would be President anyway.
The range was Fox News -14% to Gallup -26%
Until next week...