Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
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Wednesday, March 28, 2018
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 45% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty-three percent (53%) disapprove.
The latest figures include 29% who Strongly Approve of the way the president is performing and 42% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -13. (see trends).
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Prior to possible direct talks between North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and President Trump in May, Kim this week met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, whom President Trump has praised as helpful in squeezing North Korea over the development of its aggressive nuclear weapons program.
The meeting between Trump and Kim would be the first time a U.S. president has ever met with the leader of the repressive communist regime, but voters here are skeptical that the meeting would lessen the threat posed by North Korea.
Voter skepticism extends to other foreign relationships, as well.
Even as President Trump imposes tariffs on billions of dollars in Chinese goods to balance the trade playing field, voters here continue to view China as an economic threat and think the U.S. government has been too easy on it.
Trump has also praised the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia in a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, but it appears voters aren't as enthusiastic as the president.
The Trump administration on Monday announced the expulsion 60 Russian consular officers and closure of Russia’s Seattle consulate in retaliation for the poisoning of a Russian spy and his daughter in the UK. Most voters continue to have an unfavorable opinion of the country’s leader, and roughly a third still consider Russia under Putin to be more of a threat than the communist Soviet Union during the Cold War.
In a look at domestic issues, we’ll tell you at 10:30 what effect voters say last weekend’s March for Our Lives will have on changing gun laws in the United States.
(More below)
Tech stocks led market declines yesterday as social media companies, including Facebook and Twitter, face increasing scrutiny by government regulators.
Just over half of regular Facebook users are considering bailing out of the popular social media siteover concerns about the privacy of their personal data, and with questions being raised about the mining of users' private data, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking heat.
Meanwhile, fresh into President Trump’s second year in office, voters see even more bias against the president in the media than they did at the start of his presidency.
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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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