This is what was expected by man. This idea of having a mandate. Talk about a landslide election? Not true. Now, we get results. Actions (executive ones) have consequences
Trump’s disapproval rating jumped to 46 percent in the latest poll that closed Sunday, up from 39 percent on the day he took office, according to two separate Reuters/Ipsos
polls.
The day Trump took office 47 percent of Americans approved of his performance as president, according to the poll. But in the second poll ending Sunday, his approval rating dipped to 45 percent.
By comparison, when Joe Biden entered office in January 2021 his approval rating was 57 percent and held steady after his first week as president, according to Gallup.
Biden’s disapproval went from 37 percent when he entered office to 40 percent in mid-February 2021, the poll
found. Barack Obama’s approval rating was 68 percent when he entered office in 2009, while his disapproval rating was 12 percent.
Trump was more popular when he began his second term than he was at the same time in 2017 at the start of his previous administration.
Presidents usually get a honeymoon period in office from the public, even after close-fought elections. It took Joe Biden and Barack Obama a good six months to dip under 50% approval ratings, for example. Trump, though, is already slumping after a barrage of unpopular moves in his first days in office. A Reuters/Ipsos poll has him underwater, with 45% approving and 46% disapproving. The disapproval rate is up six points in a week, the approval rate down two.
It's leopards and faces all the way down.
Most Americans opposed ending the nation's longstanding practice of granting citizenship to children born in the US even if neither parent has legal immigration status, the poll found. About 59% of respondents – including 89% of Democrats and 36% of Republicans – said they opposed ending birthright citizenship. A federal judge last week
temporarily blocked the Trump administration from making changes to birthright citizenship, but the White House has vowed to fight on. Seventy per cent of respondents oppose renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the
Gulf of America, an action Trump ordered on his first day in office. Only 25% of respondents supported the idea, with the rest unsure.
About 59% of respondents, including 30% of Republicans, opposed Trump's moves to end federal efforts to promote the hiring of women and members of racial minority groups.
The funny thing is that in the real world, DEI programs are fairly popular (with more than 50% of Americans finding them very or somewhat favorable and only 29% finding them very or somewhat unfavorable) and has been consistently for decades. It's just right wingers and media pundits who are eager to make it controversial.
Eggs not any cheaper, adds Reuters.
Democrats don’t contest the fact that President Trump and his fellow Republicans earned the right to steer our national government, a right Trump sought to deny his predecessor through false statements, fraud and ultimately violence.
Notwithstanding his frequent statements to the contrary, however, Trump did not earn a mandate for his radical policy changes.
Trump takes obvious pride in winning the popular vote, but his margin was as tiny as … let’s just leave it at tiny. Fewer than 50 percent of voters cast their ballot for him while his margin over Vice President Harris was less than 1.5 percentage points.
Pretty puny by historical standards. Only nine presidential elections out of the 49 for which we have popular counts were won with lesser margins. Nineteen presidential elections yielded true landslide victories of 10 points or more. Trump’s advantage was nowhere close to that.
Second, that’s not how our system, or voters’ brains, work.
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