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After Maria, Trump approval rating on hurricanes falls 20 points
Post-Maria, Trump's approval rating on hurricanes down 20 points
Trump says Puerto Rico 'won't be an easy fix' 01:40
Story highlights
- Trump's approval rating for handling hurricane response dropped across party lines
- Among Hispanics, just 22% approve of Trump's response to recent hurricanes
WASHINGTON (CNN)President
Donald Trump's approval rating for handling the federal government's
response to recent hurricanes has dropped 20 points in the aftermath of
Hurricane Maria, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.
In
mid-September, 64% of Americans said they approved of Trump's handling
of the US hurricane response. That finding followed his administration's
handling of hurricanes Harvey and Irma, which hit the US mainland in
late-August and September. Now, as many Puerto Ricans remain without
access to clean water or electricity nearly a month after Maria hit,
just 44% say they approve.
In the weeks since Maria devastated the island, Trump's response has vacillated between criticism and praise. He has used his Twitter account
to contend that local officials aren't doing enough to help and has
threatened to withdraw assistance from the island entirely. At other
times, he has praised the work of the military and first responders
there.
In a Rose Garden news conference Monday, Trump mixed praise for the federal government's response
to the situation with criticism of local efforts, saying that ample
supplies had reached the island but were held up by distribution issues.
"We
have massive amounts of water," Trump said. "We have massive amounts of
food, but they have to distribute the food, and they have to do this.
They have to distribute the food to the people of the island."
The
poll found Trump's numbers on this score have dipped across party
lines. His ratings are down 9 points among Republicans, 22 points among
independents and 25 points among Democrats.
The
decline also includes a steep drop in his approval rating on handling
hurricanes among non-whites, from 52% in September to 25% now. Among
Hispanics, approval for Trump's handling of hurricane response has
dropped from 49% in September to 22% now.
In
the September poll, majorities of men and women and majorities across
age groups approved of the way Trump was handling the Hurricane
response. Now, among women, just 36% approve, while only 32% of those
under age 45 approve.
The 64%
approval rating Trump held on this issue in September was the highest
the President had received for any issue in CNN's polling since he took
office in January, exceeding his previous high of 55% approval for
handling the economy in March by 9 points.
The
CNN Poll was conducted by SSRS by telephone October 12 to 15 among a
random national sample of 1,010 adults. The margin of sampling error for
results among the full sample is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points;
it is larger for subgroups.
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