The higher approval does a couple things as well.
It undermines efforts by Republicans to primary Trump and efforts by Democrats (and some Republicans) to impeach.
I expect it to jump higher after Feb 1, when Americans see their paychecks increase.
The higher approval does a couple things as well.
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This is why the media will NEVER report a high approval rating or do a poll that will have POTUS over 45%.
Trump was polling poorly during the campaign, according to the media. I’m not even talking about the “who are you voting for” poll question. I’m talking other questions about whether he’s qualified to be President (60% according the media at the time said no). The media has been pushing the narrative nobody likes Trump for almost two years now.
Yet he flipped three DEEP BLUE states that haven’t voted R in over three decades. And he did it by not just getting big rural turnout but by flipping blue suburbs in places like PA and WI.
The GOPe doesn’t gaf about approval rating polls. They worked against him right after he was elected with 306 EV.
That was the only poll that mattered.
Not only that the Trump wave helped keep the Senate and House in the hands of the Republicans.
Before the actual vote on 11/8/2016, everyone was predicting not only Trump getting crushed but the Dems taking back one or both houses.