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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 52% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-eight percent (48%) disapprove.
The latest figures include 37% who Strongly Approve of the way Trump is performing and 38% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -1. ( see trends).
Regular updates are posted Monday through Friday at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update).
The president laid out his agenda in a generally well-received speech last Tuesday night to Congress, but most voters don’t want Congress to rush. They want the legislators instead to take the time to decide which of Trump’s proposals they think are best for the country.
It’s interesting to note, however, that Republican voters are more likely to identify with Trump than with the GOP Congress.
Rasmussen Reports will tell you at 10:30 which of the action items from the president’s speech voters consider most important – creating more jobs, cutting taxes, repealing and replacing Obamacare, reducing illegal immigration, launching an infrastructure plan to rebuild America’s roads, bridges and tunnels, defeating radical Islamic terrorism or something else.
Trump has proposed an additional $54 billion in defense spending by cutting some foreign aid and some funding for the State Department, the Education Department and other domestic programs. Forty-four percent (44%) of voters favor the proposal, while 48% are opposed. Republicans are far more supportive of the plan than Democrats and voters not affiliated with either party are.
Most voters continue to expect significant government spending cuts over the next few years and agree that any new spending should be offset by budget cuts elsewhere.
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The president is expected today to sign a revised version of his temporary freeze on the entry of people into the United States from several Middle Eastern and African countries. Most voters support Trump’s plan to temporarily halt refugees and visas from certain countries until these newcomers can be properly vetted to screen out potential terrorists.
Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Republicans think their party should be more like Trump than like Arizona Senator John McCain, the GOP’s unsuccessful presidential candidate in 2008. Among Democrats, however, 68% think the Republican Party should be more like McCain.
See “What They Told Us” in surveys last week.
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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.
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