Poll: Trump's 'face-lift' tweet crossed line
Source: Politico
By STEVEN SHEPARD 07/05/2017 05:59 AM EDT
President Donald Trump acted unacceptably when he insulted MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski on Twitter last week, nearly two-thirds of voters say in a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.
Sixty-five percent of voters say Trump’s tweets were unacceptable, the poll shows, while just 16 percent say they are acceptable.
The poll was conducted June 29-30, beginning just hours after Trump called Brzezinski “low I.Q. Crazy Mika” last Thursday and wrote that she was “bleeding badly from a face-lift” when visiting his Palm Beach, Florida, club over the New Year’s holiday. The poll was already in the field when Trump, the next morning, tweeted that Brzezinski’s program, “Morning Joe” was “FAKE NEWS” and suggested that Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, the former Florida congressman, asked Trump to stop the National Enquirer from reporting a romantic relationship between the two co-hosts.
The poll concluded before Trump turned his ire on another media outlet, CNN, tweeting a wrestling video doctored to make it appear that Trump was body-slamming and assaulting the network.
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Poll: Majority of voters back Trump travel ban
By STEVEN SHEPARD 07/05/2017 05:58 AM EDT
A clear majority of voters support President Donald Trump’s travel ban on visitors from six predominantly Muslim countries, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.
Polling on the travel restrictions has varied wildly since the Trump administrationunveiled the first executive order on travel in late January. But after months of litigation and controversy, 6-in-10 voters back the ban — and the survey suggests the actual policy may be more popular when separated from the president.
Asked whether they support or oppose the State Department’s “new guidelines which say visa applicants from six predominately Muslim countries must prove a close family relationship with a U.S. resident in order to enter the country,” 60 percent of respondents said they support the guidelines, and only 28 percent oppose them.
The POLITICO/Morning Consult question doesn’t mention Trump, nor does it refer to the president’s executive orders on immigration. That contrasts with other polls, which mostly show greater opposition to the policy. An Associated Press-NORC Center poll last month showed a 57 percent majority of Americans thought courts were acting rightly in blocking the travel ban. That was conducted before the Supreme Court’s per curiam decision last week to let some elements of the ban go into effect while the high court waits to hear the case in the fall.
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