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Analysis: Here are all the places Trump is losing support
Here are all the places Trump is losing support
(CNN)A new CNN poll
shows that just 36% of Americans approve of the job Donald Trump is
doing, the lowest mark to date in his presidency. (That's in keeping
with a number of other polls of late.)
It's also a significant fade from Trump's 100-day mark -- when he stood at 44% approval in CNN data.
So, where, specifically, is Trump bleeding support? I asked CNN's polling boss Jenn Agiesta that question! Here's where she pointed me.
1. Indies. Unaffiliated
voters are leaving Trump's side in large numbers. Back at the 100-day
mark in April, Trump was at 44% approval with independents. Now?
32%. Trump's numbers among partisans are broadly similar. He's at 5%
approval among Democrats (vs 8% in April) and 86% approval among
Republicans (vs 85% in April).
2. Non-college educated whites.
Trump approval is down seven points from where he stood among whites
generally in April. Agiesta notes that most of the Trump erosion is
among non-college educated whites, a group that served as one of the
pillars of Trump's stunning 2016 win. At the 100-day mark, Trump was at
59% approval among non-college educated whites. Today, it's 46%. Weirdly
-- at least to me -- is that 38% of college-educated whites approved of
Trump in April while 42% do now.
3. Non-whites.
You'd think Trump wouldn't have very far to fall among non-white
voters, given how poorly he has performed with that group since the
start of his candidacy. But you'd be wrong! At 100 days, 29% of
non-white voters approved of the job Trump was doing. Now? Just 18%.
It's hard not to blame some of that decline on Trump's handling of the
white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, where Trump
repeatedly suggested both sides were to blame. Trump's approval rating
among African-Americans in the new CNN poll? 4%.
The Point:
When people say that Trump's base is holding steady, that's broadly
right. He remains very popular among the people who voted for him. But
among almost everyone else -- and even among some elements of his base
-- perceptions of Trump are headed in the wrong direction.
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