This month’s Quinnipiac University national survey finds convicted felon President Trump’s his lowest ever economic approval rating at 33 percent to 64 percent disapprove among overall respondents and at 73 to 24 percent approve/disapprove among Republicans. Overall job approval is at the lowest of his second term at 34 to 58 percent disapprove, down from 38/55 last month.
Asking for some reason who they want to win the House majority rather than which party’s candidate in their district they plan to vote for in November, QU found Dems leading the GOP 50 to 39 percent. Now believe that or don’t but what’s funny about it is, and from the same sample, the respective Congressional parties’ ratings on “Do you approve or disapprove of the way the Republicans/Democrats in Congress are handling their job?”: 27 percent for R and 20 percent Ds.
Pretty abysmal for both sides and all of that delta is of course driven by voters’ feelings for their respective side at 41 percent Dems approving of Dem electeds to 65 percent GOP voters-to-electeds. But even among indies it’s 19 percent approving Republicans to 18 percent approving of Dems in Congress. And yet by a 52 to 32 percent landslide indies want Dems to win the House.
Blame for Trump on gas prices actually doubled among Republican voters: Last month it was 22 percent (9 percent “a lot” to 13 percent “some”) now it’s at 44 (16/28 percent “a lot”/”some”), while overall the number went up from 65 (51/14 “a lot”/”some”) to 72 percent (55/17 “a lot”/”some”).