March 6: Trump Job Approval Again Underwater, Where It Belongs
As an inveterate poll-watcher, I have been waiting for the moment when Donald Trump’s job approval numbers went underwater, his accustomed position for nearly all of his presidential career. It arrived around the time he made his speech to Congress, as I noted at New York:
Even as he was delivering the most partisan address to Congress maybe ever, Donald Trump’s public support seemed to be regularly eroding. An updated FiveThirtyEight average of Trump’s approval ratings on March 4 (released just as news broke that ABC was shutting down the revered data site) showed him going underwater for the first time since reoccupying the White House, with 47.6 percent approval and 47.9 percent disapproval. That puts Trump back in the same territory of public opinion he occupied during his first term as president, where (per Gallup) he never achieved more than 50 percent job approval, and averaged a mere 41 percent.
Perhaps Trump will get lucky and conditions in the country will improve enough to validate his agenda, but it’s more likely that the same sour public climate that overwhelmed Joe Biden will now afflict his predecessor and successor.
The Reuters/Ipsos survey that pushed Trump’s numbers into negative territory showed a mood very different from the 47th president’s boasts about a new “golden age” for our country:
“Thirty-four percent of Americans say that the country is headed in the right direction, compared to 49% who say it is off on the wrong track. When it comes to several specific issues, Americans are more likely to say things are off on the wrong track than going in the right direction: cost of living (22% right direction / 60% wrong track), the national economy (31% right direction / 51% wrong track), national politics (33% right direction / 50% wrong track), American foreign policy (33% right direction / 49% wrong track), and employment and jobs (33% right direction / 47% wrong track).”
So all the hype about Trump being a popular president who was in the midst of engineering a major realignment of the American electorate is already looking more than a bit hollow. Trump has a solid Republican base of support and a solid Democratic opposition, with independents currently leaning towards the Democratic Party on most issues. Perhaps Trump’s agenda will gain momentum and support, but since he’s not trying to reach out beyond his party’s base at all, he’s going to need a lift from Americans who only voted for him in 2024 as the lesser of evils and may not vote in the 2026 midterms at all.
At present Trump has lost whatever presidential “honeymoon” he initially enjoyed after his return to the White House, and needs to find new converts to return to genuine popularity. He’s not off to a great start.
The thing is you must stand up to the Republicans
And be bold, use bold language.
Tie Putin to Trump then tie all Republicans.
Point out how they tried to over turn out system of government when they try to overthrow the election that Joe Biden won.
Have them brought up on the charge of treason.
And when a subpoena is issued and they refuse to show up have them arrested.
Show the Republicans that you are not playing with them.
The Republicans are pissed for morally and you go about showing showing it You do this by showing their actions when they try to subvert our government.
Each time a Democrat goes on TV they should be stressing the points that the Republican party is more early bankrupt that the Republican party is the party of poop that the Republican party is the report of white nationalists that the Republican party is against brown black yellow and red people the Republican party is only interested in power and the Republican party is only out to profit white Americans.
The Republican party is just fine with white cops killing young black men.
The Republican party is like Putin.
The Republican party dose not believe democracy for all.
They believe in money for themselves and power for themselves.
The Republican party is a stalinist party.
It’s not an American political party.
The Republican party is a member of the Soviet socialist Republic regime.
Just ask them what they believing.
They believe in power. They don’t believe in a moral core , they don’t believe in fair play.
That’s why they are trying to keep Democrats from voting because they know they’re going to lose.