Voters give Trump higher marks on border security, but they disapprove of his handling of several key issues, according to a national NBC News poll.
Majorities of registered voters disapprove of how Donald Trump has handled the issues that defined the first months of a tumultuous midterm election year, as Democrats maintain an advantage in the battle for control of Congress, according to a new national NBC News poll.
Voters give Trump poor marks for his handling of immigration after his administration surged federal agents into the heart of American cities and immigration officers in Minnesota killed two U.S. citizens in January. They are down on his tariffs after the Supreme Court struck down his main tariff program in February and Trump later reimposed some of those levies.
And they don’t like his actions on Iran, with the U.S. now at war with the nation after Trump ordered strikes starting last weekend — strikes a majority say should not have happened.
31 Comments
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 112 pts · 183d
44% approved?!?
jesus fucking christian lobotomy
Atropos@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 182d
We have a MASSIVE propaganda and critical thinking crisis here in the states.
It is jaw dropping how otherwise normal people can have such disgusting views.
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 181d
Looks like a moral failing and irresponsibility crisis to me
CarnivorousCouch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 181d
I don't know that couching this as many cases of personal moral failure and irresponsibility is productive when so many are affected. It's like when conservatives discuss poverty - certainly, many among the affected group could make better choices, but shouldn't we be motivated to understand what led to their failure from a systematic perspective?
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 182d
And this is why the problems in America will not be easily solved. There won't be a solution in the (if they happen) midterms. There won't be a solution in the (if it happens) next election.
The problem of 40+% of the population supporting Trump remains. And it will remain, whether it's the causes of it or the reality of it. And it will not simply fade away.
This large of a population supporting these policies is a crisis of catastrophic proportions.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 182d
This is out of date (it's a 4 minute video of a mormon rep talking about why he voted for the Iraq War in 2003) but it gives some insight into what goes through their tiny little heads
Oregon, do better
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 50 pts · 183d
So if you line up 20 random Americans, just 9 will say Trump is doing a great job.
Theprogressivist@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 183d
Fucking pathetic ain't it?
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 183d
or it's just lies / extremely confusing terminology being used
Lydon_Feen@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 182d
i think you meant to say that if you line up 20 random americans, 9 of them should be commited to a psych ward.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 182d
a modern one or a 1940s one?
Lydon_Feen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 181d
The sadist in me wants to say 1940's.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 181d
how barbaric! we should be friends.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 182d
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 11 pts · 183d
Because those 9 probably watch Faux News (Fox News) and the likes... which is just propaganda for this regimes agenda. Now, unfortunately the other news media has been compromised and are starting to bend the knee as well. We'll start seeing an incline in the pedophiles approval especially if a "terrorist attack perpetrated by Iran were to happen on US soil" which the sane bunch of us will know would be absolute bullshit and fabricated by the regime.
BillyClark@piefed.social · 6 pts · 183d
Hey let's not go lining up random Americans. If you're insistent on lining Americans up, stick to those nine people you mentioned.
Oisteink@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 182d
That's not how they do it themselves though.
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 181d
But they’re different, remember?
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 182d
Or as the cons like to say: "a mandate".
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 182d
those conservative cis het white men would love a secret man date
0li0li@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 183d
Just? That's way to many!
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 181d
More likely all 20 will say they love or hate him, depending on where they live.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 182d
"trump barely is behind in the polls for a cornucopia of huge issues that he's about as bad as can possibly be on"
I wish it made sense.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 182d
Honestly, what was the issue with the border before? I keep seeing Republicans and plenty of reactionary centrists say that Donvict "closed the border because Joe had an open border policy".
What are they even talking about?
watson387@sopuli.xyz · 17 pts · 182d
They're full of shit. They're calling asylum seekers illegals because Trump told MAGA that means they were let out of an insane asylum in another country and Biden brought them here to vote. It's a ridiculous premise and he just makes up the numbers as he goes.
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf · 4 pts · 182d
It's a useful tool in that the vast majority of Americans don't have any personal insight into what's going on so if a right-wing rag tells them the borders are wide open and terrorist rapist serial killers are pouring in, many are inclined to buy that.
What we're seeing now is MAGA trying to reconcile that invisible threat with actual problems like the cost of food, gas, housing, healthcare, etc.
hammertime@lemmy.org · 8 pts · 182d
This is the exact reason there won’t be a blue wave in November—even if there is a fair election.
Get out while you still can.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 181d
I mean, why not? It's not like the approval was literally any different last blue wave? It's always ~60/40. Always.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 181d
Are you fucking joking? This is the exact same approval rating he's always fucking had. Why are you making note of this? OP, I'm asking you. Explain.
pirate2377@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 181d
Democrats are so bad that a president dragging us into a war for little to no reason still has a chance in the midterms at all...
TractorDuffy@lemmy.world · -10 pts · 182d
I hate liberals so much I plan on voting for every Republican on my ballot!
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 182d
Imagine your life being so pathetic that you come here trolling like this. Then imagine being this bad at at it.