Friday, March 31, 2017
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 43% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty-seven percent (57%) disapprove.
The latest figures include 28% who Strongly Approve of the way Trump is performing and 47% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -19. (see trends).
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Republicans give the president high marks for leadership so far. Democrats and unaffiliated voters don’t and think he’s too confrontational.
Confidence in the housing market continues to grow among homeowners.
Forty percent (40%) of Americans now expect the economy to be stronger a year from now, but that's down from 50% in January, the highest level of optimism in surveying since January 2009. Still, the new finding is higher than regular results since the fall of 2012.
Most voters continue to think the government is too big and too expensive, but most Democrats now disagree.
Just after the presidential election, voters were more hopeful than they’d been in several years that the two major political parties would work together. We’ll tell you at 10:30 what they think now.
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The president is now criticizing the conservative House Freedom Caucus, saying they threaten the entire Republican agenda. At the first of the year, Republican voters were more likely to identify with Trump than with the GOP Congress.
The early clashes on Capitol Hill have hurt House Speaker Paul Ryan's popularity and made the Democrats' most visible congressional leader, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, more liked and more disliked.
Forty-four percent (44%) of voters think illegal immigration increases the level of serious crime in America.
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Some readers wonder how we come up with our job approval ratings for the president since they often don’t show as dramatic a change as some other pollsters do. It depends on how you ask the question and whom you ask.
To get a sense of longer-term job approval trends for the president, Rasmussen Reports compiles our tracking data on a full month-by-month basis.
Rasmussen Reports has been a pioneer in the use of automated telephone polling techniques, but many other firms still utilize their own operator-assisted technology (see methodology).
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