Quinnipiac released a new poll of American voters on January 26 and popular vote loser Trump’s support continues to sink.
His net job approval is now underwater at -8: 36% approve, 44% disapprove. This is a 9% lower approval than a Gallup poll from just a few days ago. Moreover, 40% disapprove strongly, while only 29% approve strongly.
Support among women has dropped to 33% approve/50% disapprove, also a 9% drop in approval. Even among men net approval has dropped from +7 to +3, from 48/41 to 41/38. Looks like there’s some serious buyer’s remorse setting in here.
Meanwhile, on a host of other traits, Trump is failing bigly. Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll sums it up this way:
"Stumbling out of the blocks, President Donald Trump is considered a divider not a uniter, flunking on honesty, empathy and level headedness, while his predecessor sees his legacy burnished by better and better numbers every polling cycle."
For comparison: “President Barack Obama scored a positive 59 - 25 percent approval rating in his first post- inaugural poll by the independent Quinnipiac University on March 4, 2009.”
Responses to “cares about average Americans” are particularly telling: from +6 (51/45) in a November 22 Q-poll to -9 (44/53) in the current poll.
And this little tidbit is likely to rattle Trump’s oh-so-fragile ego:
President Trump will be a worse president than Barack Obama, 50 percent of American voters say, and 37 percent say he will be a better president.
Remarkably, a majority of respondents are “generally optimistic about the next four years with Donald Trump as president” (53/43), and virtually all respondents (96%) said they would vote the same way if the election was held today.
The way things are going, who knows how they’ll feel at the end of week two?