AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - WSJ poll shows Trump at 37% approval, lowest pre-midterm reading since 1990
A new Wall Street Journal poll puts President Trump’s job approval at 37 percent, the lowest pre-midterm mark for any president in the paper’s surveys back to 1990. The survey, fielded September 16 through 21 among 1,500 registered voters, also found 61 percent disapproving of his job performance. Newsweek reported the figures after the Journal […] The post WSJ poll shows Trump at 37% approval, lowest pre-midterm reading since 1990 appeared first on American Almanac .
A new Wall Street Journal poll puts President Trump’s job approval at 37 percent, the lowest pre-midterm mark for any president in the paper’s surveys back to 1990. The survey, fielded September 16 through 21 among 1,500 registered voters, also found 61 percent disapproving of his job performance. Newsweek reported the figures after the Journal released the poll Friday. Those numbers land as Republicans brace for the November midterms, with candidates and strategists already managing voter anxiety over the economy and the cost of living. In the same Wall Street Journal survey, 65 percent of respondents rated the U.S. economy negatively and only 33 percent viewed it positively. Sixty percent said Trump’s economic policies had made the…Open