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Polling this week has not been a friend to Donald Trump, which will be news to him given how terrific all his aides say he is doing.
In a Politico poll released Wednesday, support for impeaching Trump ticked up to 43 percent, a five-point gain from the same poll just last week—though 45 percent of respondents still oppose impeachment.
Another Wednesday poll found Trump's support softening in Michigan, one of the three states that helped tilt the Electoral College in Trump's favor by a very slim margin of some 70,000 votes.
The poll shows that, since the last poll by EPIC-MRA in February, Trump’s job approval rating — which is different from his favorability score — has fallen substantially.
Sixty-one percent of those surveyed gave Trump a negative job rating — up five percentage points from February. That matched the increase from 50% to 55% of Michiganders who believe the direction of the country has taken a “wrong turn,” according to the poll.
Trump's job approval ratings among Michiganders fell to just 12 percent (ouch!), down from an already embarrassing 18 percent.
Trumpcare’s outlook isn't looking so hot either, with a Kaiser Health Tracking Poll showing that 55 percent of Americans have a negative view of the GOP health care bill. Once again, 55 percent support making major changes to the GOP bill or scrapping it altogether.
Not surprisingly 66 percent of Republicans support it while 78 percent of Democrats don't, but tellingly, independents strongly favor the Democrats' Affordable Care Act over the Republicans' American Health Care Act.
Independents are more favorable toward the ACA than the AHCA, by 48 to 30 percent.