From: januarybaybee@gmail.com   
      
   Poll Shows Trump Dipping to 32 Percent Approval    
      
      
   An Associated Press–NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released on   
   Friday found that President Trump has a 32 percent approval rating, with 67   
   percent of respondents disapproving of the job he’s doing as president.    
      
   And it reported that only 67 percent of Republicans approve of his   
   performance, down significantly from 80 percent in the same poll in March.    
      
   It’s just one poll, and given its diversion from other relatively more   
   Trump-friendly numbers, it may very well be an outlier.   But a slide in   
   Republican approval could spell big trouble for Trump, who has maintained   
   popularity among his GOP base even    
   as he alienates most of the rest of the country.    
      
   Other polls have shown Republican approval in the high 80s, with a massive gap   
   between Democratic and Republican approval that reflects our highly partisan   
   times.    
      
   The poll found that 42 percent approved of Trump’s performance in March, and   
   35 percent in June.   Though lower than many findings, the downward trend is   
   consistent with other polls in showing a slide from the beginning of Trump’s   
   presidency to    
   subsequent months, which have been defined by persistent chaos, divisive   
   rhetoric, and legislative inaction.    
      
   Trump’s approval rating has stuck to a fairly narrow range throughout most   
   of his presidency — from the mid-40s at the outset to the high-30s now –   
   with very high approval ratings from Republicans keeping his low numbers from   
   falling into last–   
   year–of–George W. Bush’s–presidency territory.    
      
   538 has his current average approval rating at 38.2 percent, while Gallup   
   shows it at 39 percent.    
      
   He is by far the least popular president at this point in a first term since   
   modern polling began.    
      
   In the AP-Norc poll, just 19 percent of people say that Trump “understands   
   the needs and problems of people like them extremely or very well,” 17   
   percent moderately well, and 64 percent not very well or not at all.    
      
   Respondents gave Congress an even lower mark than Trump, at 18 percent   
   approval, and only 24 percent of people said the country was going in the   
   right direction, down from 34 percent in June.    
      
   The poll was conducted from September 28 to October 2, and included online and   
   telephone interviews. It has a margin of error of 4.1 percent.    
      
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