At the 100-day mark of his second term, Donald Trump’s polling numbers are pretty terrible. His approval is underwater in most polls, both overall and on individual issues. Some polls have even found him underwater on immigration, which has historically been his strongest issue.
The RealClearPolling average now has Trump’s approval rating at 45.3 percent, compared to 52.4 percent disapproval, which is both the worst numbers of his second presidency and historically bad numbers for a president at the 100-day mark. According to the average of the last four polls, from ABC News/Washington Post, New York Times/Siena, CNN, and CBS News, all show the president underwater by double digits.
Trump has reacted to the bad numbers in a fairly typical fashion: By attacking the pollsters.
The president took to Truth Social on Monday morning to call for pollsters to be “investigated for election fraud,” although it is unclear what “election” is being referenced, as Trump is ineligible to run for president again. He also referred to them as “negative criminals.”
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“The New York Times has only 37% Trump 2024 voters, and the ABC/Washington Post Poll has only 34% Trump Voters, unheard of numbers unless looking for a negative result, which they are,” Trump said of the polls. “These people should be investigated for ELECTION FRAUD, and add in the FoxNews Pollster while you’re at it. They are Negative Criminals who apologize to their subscribers and readers after I WIN ELECTIONS BIG, much bigger than their polls showed I would win, loose a lot of credibility, and then go on cheating and lying for the next cycle, only worse.”
“THEY ARE SICK, almost only write negative stories about me no matter how well I am doing (99.9% at the Border, BEST NUMBER EVER!), AND ARE TRULY THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!,” he added in the Truth Social post.
Trump, in recent months, has also seen it fit to sue J. Ann Selzer, the highly-regarded Iowa pollster who predicted, erroneously, that Kamala Harris would win in Iowa, while also calling on Rupert Murdoch to fire Fox News’ pollster after that network published a poll that was bad for him.
FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, said of the Selzer suit that “it is hard to imagine a legal claim that violates basic First Amendment principles more thoroughly.”
From polls to election losses, such as those in 2020, the president appears to view it as impossible that anything he does could be unpopular.
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