It's not all the "winning" that Americans are tired of, it's just the opposite, according to new polling released Thursday.
...the CBS poll finds mostly negative reviews of Trump's job so far: 53% overall say he's been a "poor President," more say he's weakened the US position in the world than strengthened it (49% to 32%), and 55% say that under Trump, the country has been "mostly losing" at things it tries to do.
Meanwhile, another poll on Thursday found that most Americans believe Trump's failing.
According to the NPR/PBS/Marist poll, 53% of Americans see Trump's first year as a failure, and 61% believed he is doing more to divide the country than unite it.
And about the U.S. position being weakened ...
Other nations’ approval of U.S. leadership under President Donald Trump hit a historical low of 30 percent in 2017, according to a Gallup poll released Thursday.
The measure, the lowest since Gallup began tracking it worldwide in 2007, signals an 18-point drop from a year earlier, when 48 percent approved of the national influence under former President Barack Obama. It is the single largest year-to-year drop in approval of U.S. leadership — or of any country examined — to date.
Another record setter!
Not to be a downer, but the one bright spot for Trump is the economy—with 44 percent in the NPR poll saying it has gotten better under Trump (vs. 28 percent saying it’s worse), and 67 percent in the CBS poll saying the economy is in good shape.
The issue that will be litigated in the midterms is whether voters want to continue giving Trump carte blanche to do whatever he so chooses simply because they’re generally feeling good about the economy. As with all things Trump, my suspicion is that the outcome will bypass conventional wisdom, meaning that his overall repulsiveness will override the famous Clinton-era adage, “It’s the economy, stupid.”
Indeed, the NPR poll found that—despite respondents’ rosy outlook on the economy—57 percent still said the country was headed in the “wrong direction,” compared to just 35 percent who said it was going in the “right direction.”
In that vein, the generic ballot is still looking awfully good for Democrats.