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Trump's Cherry-Picked Polls Still Show More than Half The Country Doesn’t Approve

The president has tweeted out 28 polls during his time in office. The average approval rating of those show him at about 49% approval.

Julia Arciga
Reporter

Sam Stein
Politics Editor

Published 07.05.19 4:42AM ET

As he departed on a flight last week to Japan to attend the G20 summit, President Donald Trump took the time to dash off a tweet celebrating the fact that he had hit “54%” in a new poll.

The celebratory missive was notable only for the fact that no such poll appeared to exist. Public surveys done during that time period did not have the president’s approval rating—ostensibly what he was talking about—at 54 percent. One done early in June had 54 percent of the public saying they believed he would be re-elected, but that total undoubtedly includes doomsaying Democrats who don’t actually support him. The Trump campaign did not return a request for comment as to what poll he was, in fact, referencing.

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But if that poll did exist it would be, undoubtedly, among the best ever that Trump has referenced. Since the dawn of his presidency, Trump has been tweeting out polls that, he believes, show the American public warming to his job performance. Except, if you add up the numbers, the picture that these polls paint is not all that splendid.

In all, President Trump has tweeted pictures of or references to 28 polls. The average approval rating of those polls is 49.07 percent. In other words, even the president’s cherry-picked data shows that he hasn’t broken through with the majority of the country.

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These polls, of course, are hardly a scientific sampling of Trump’s job approval numbers. In fact, they skew heavily towards pollsters—one in particular—that tend to draw a more sympathetic result for the president.

Of the 28 polls that Trump has tweeted out, 22 of them were done by the firm Rasmussen and three of them were simply screenshots of the front page of the Drudge Report, the powerhouse conservative website. The other three included a July 2017 ABC/Washington Post poll that had the president at a 40 percent job approval rating, which he deemed to be “not bad at this time” of his presidency; an August 2017 Zogby Analytics poll that had him at 45 percent job approval rating; and a December 2017 Morning Consult poll that also had him at 45 percent job approval rating.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-cherry-picked-polls-still-show-more-than-half-the-country-doesnt-approve?ref=home2

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1. Rasmussen was America's least accurate poll in Nov 2018