Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

Monday, June 26, 2017

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 47% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty-three percent (53%) disapprove.

The latest figures for Trump include 29% who Strongly Approve of the way Trump is performing and 44% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15. (see trends).

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Some Democrats are saying it’s time for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to go, arguing that losses in this year’s special congressional elections show that their party needs new, younger leadership. We’ll tell you at 10:30 this morning what Democrats nationwide think.

Following the conclusion last week of the most expensive congressional race in history, 71% say the amount of money necessary for a campaign makes it impossible for most people to run for Congress.  Still, nearly 40% of Americans say they’d run for Congress if they knew they had a reasonable chance of winning.

Voters continue to believe that members of Congress aren’t above selling their vote, although they’re less likely to think their own local representative has. 

The Senate could join the House in the next few days with a vote changing major parts of President Obama’s national health care law. Most voters continue to dislike Obamacare the way it is and believe Congress and the president should fix it.

Voters feel more strongly than ever that reducing health care costs is more important than Obamacare’s requirement that everyone must have health insurance. A big problem for the law’s supporters is that while most Americans say their personal health hasn’t changed much over the last five years, they are paying more now for health care despite promises that Obamacare would bring those costs down.

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Is another Supreme Court vacancy coming? Voters say it’s unlikely the president could nominate anyone to the high court who would appeal to both Democrats and Republicans,  and they expect Trump to move the court to the right.

In the wake of the United States’ downing of a Syrian warplane, voters here believe this is just the beginning of a situation that will only get worse and could result in direct military conflict with Russia.

See “What They Told Us” in surveys last week.

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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).

Daily tracking results are collected via telephone surveys of 500 likely voters per night and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. To reach those who have abandoned traditional landline telephones, Rasmussen Reports uses an online survey tool to interview randomly selected participants from a demographically diverse panel. The margin of sampling error for the full sample of 1,500 Likely Voters is +/- 2.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Results are also compiled on a full-week basis and crosstabs for full-week results are available for Platinum Members.