"Great news", he said a couple of hours after the poll was released. Rasmussen is often an outlier that consistently shows Trump with higher approval ratings than most other polls.
On its final poll released November 7, the day before Election Day, Rasmussen had Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonVandals alter highway sign to read "Crooked Hillary" Gingrich: A president "cannot obstruct justice" Dem senator "increasingly concerned" Trump will try to fire Mueller, Rosenstein MORE up 2 points on Donald TrumpDonald TrumpDem tells Trump to remove family event planner as head of NY federal housing Can marijuana help mitigate America's opioid crisis? Lawmakers in deep-red environs still must contend with constituents who remain devoted to Trump, but beyond those areas, political self-interest dictates that they defend the work of the special counsel, take their oversight responsibilities seriously and push back on the president's unpopular positions on both domestic and foreign policy. Forty-seven percent said he was incompetent, while 46 percent said he was competent.
This is reportedly the first time that President Trump's overall approval rating reached the 50% mark since April this year.
Overall, 43 percent approve of the job Trump is doing in office, while 51 percent disapprove.
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As in the past, Putin chided regional authorities for failing to care for people and ordered them to fix the flaws quickly. Putin said that a slump in oil prices had been a more important factor in Russia's economic slowdown than the sanctions.
In the latest figures, 30% of those who participated in the poll "strongly approve" of how Trump has been performing his duties as President, while 42% "strongly disapprove" of how he has been conducting himself as the nation's leader. Harry Enten, from the data-driven website FiveThirtyEight, referenced "The Simpsons" when touching on the hypothetical reaction from the Trump aide who delivered the poll to the president. There's a chart in the February Trib story that breaks approve/disapprove down by partisan ID (you can also dig through the February crosstabs), and we can see that Democratic disapproval went from 85% to 90%. That's one point higher approval than last week.
On Wednesday, a gunman opened fire on a field of Republican congressmen and staffers at a baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia. "What's striking is that Republicans in Texas are warming to Trump even though they have reservations about his temperament and character".
The milestone in the polls was also cheered by Matt Drudge, founder of the right-wing website Drudge Report.
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