Public Policy Polling likes to have fun with its Twitter trolls, and that’s a good thing, because PPP has a new poll that will definitely unleash a flood of angry Trumpy trolls. Impeachment, rising disapproval, the Muslim ban, the Bowling Green Massacre … this poll is a thing of beauty.
- Trump’s approval rating is just 43 percent, while his disapproval rating has shot up to 53 percent.
- ”Just three weeks into his administration, voters are already evenly divided on the issue of impeaching Trump with 46% in favor and 46% opposed.”
- Trump’s Muslim ban gets 45 percent support, with 49 percent opposed, but here’s the kicker: “Among those who do support it you have to wonder how well thought out their position is—by a 51/23 margin Trump voters say that the Bowling Green Massacre shows why Trump's immigration policy is needed.”
- “By a 48/43 spread, voters do think that the intent of the Executive Order is to be a Muslim ban. And just 22% support a Muslim ban, to 65% who are opposed.” A whopping 66 percent of those polled said the ban was poorly executed to boot, so Trump’s basic competence is getting the doubt it deserves.
The bad news just keeps coming: 53 percent of voters trust judges over Trump, and 64 percent don’t think Trump should have the right to overturn judicial decisions he doesn’t like. (But Trump voters are in a different world from everyone else and from the Constitution: 51 percent of them say Trump should be able to overturn court decisions.) Voters think he should fully divest from his business interests and release his tax returns. They don’t like Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer, Betsy DeVos, or Russia. They increasingly do like Obamacare, as they’re faced with the prospect of losing it.
Back when Trump was leading in polls of the Republican primary, he loved to point to polls as evidence of great and true things. Now all he can say about his formerly beloved polls is “fake news.” But oh, wait. Another of this poll’s findings is that “Voters are increasingly taking the media's side in [Trump’s] fights with them.”