The latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll is very, very bad news for Republicans, for popular vote loser Donald Trump, and for their monster of an Obamacare repeal/"replace" bill. In fact, Trumpcare is even more unpopular than Trump!
Just 29% of Americans say they approve of President Donald Trump's decision to fire FBI Director Comey, while 38% disapprove, according to our new NBC/WSJ poll. Another 32% of respondents don't have enough to say on the matter. Yet among those who say they have read, seen or heard "a lot" about the firing, 53% say they disapprove, versus 33% who approve. But compare those numbers with these from the same poll: 48% say the health-care legislation that was recently passed by the House and supported by President Trump is a bad idea, versus 23% who call it a good idea. That 25-point gap between good idea and bad idea is larger than the NBC/WSJ poll ever found for Barack Obama's health-care plan. Back in December of 2013 -- following problems with the rollout of the HealthCare.Gov website — 50% had said the Obama plan was a bad idea, versus 34% who said it was a good idea (-16). This past February, however, 43% of Americans called the Obama plan a good idea, while 41% said it was bad (+2).
Just to put a point on that:
This is a disaster for Republicans. It would be worse for the American people, of course, which is why it’s so unpopular. So let’s see what Senate Leader Mitch McConnell decides to do with that.