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   SPECIAL REPORT   October 10, 2017    
      
      
   Trump Approval Dips in Every State, Though Deep Pockets of Support Remain    
      
   A comprehensive survey of more than 470,000 Americans finds Trump's approval   
   has fallen in every state since taking office    
      
      
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   A majority of voters in 25 states and the District of Columbia said they   
   disapprove of the president’s job performance.  Trump retains support from a   
   majority of voters in 12 states ranging from the Mountain States to the South.    
      
   Fewer than nine months into President Donald Trump’s White House tenure, a   
   Morning Consult survey in all 50 states indicates that voters have grown   
   bearish on his performance in office.    
      
   Trump has failed to improve his standing among the public anywhere —   
   including the states he won handily as the Republican nominee during the 2016   
   presidential election, according to the online survey, which was based on   
   interviews of 472,032    
   registered voters across each state and Washington, D.C., from Trump’s Jan.   
   20 inauguration to Sept. 26.    
      
   The negative swings in net approval ranged from as high as 30 percentage   
   points in solidly blue Illinois and New York to as low as 11 points in red   
   Louisiana.  But in many of the states Trump easily carried last year — such   
   as Tennessee (-23 percentage    
   points), Mississippi (-21 points), Kentucky (-20 points), Kansas (-19 points)   
   and Indiana (-17 points) — voters have soured on the president in 2017.    
      
   A majority of voters in 25 states and the District of Columbia said they   
   disapproved of the president’s job performance in September, including those   
   residing in Upper Midwest states with large Electoral College hauls that were   
   critical to Trump’s    
   victory over 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton — and some   
   of which are home to some of the most vulnerable Senate Democrats of the 2018   
   election cycle.    
      
   Fifty-five percent of respondents in Michigan said they disapproved of Trump,   
   as did 53 percent in Wisconsin and Iowa and 51 percent in Pennsylvania.    
      
   Fifty-one percent of voters in Nevada and Arizona, where the Senate GOP’s   
   most vulnerable members are up for re-election next year, also disapproved of   
   Trump’s handling of the presidency.    
      
   “It’s always hard, though not impossible, for the president’s party to   
   maintain or even gain ground in an election,” Kyle Kondik, managing editor   
   of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics,   
   said in a Sept. 21    
   interview.   He cited solid approval numbers in recent years for former   
   Presidents Bill Clinton in 1998 and George W. Bush in 2002, when their parties   
   bucked midterm trends.    
      
   But, Kondik said, those types of gains are made when the president has   
   favorable numbers.    
      
   “Again, these presidents were all popular,” Kondik said.  “Trump is not   
   right now, and his weakened standing could threaten Republican chances to   
   defeat Democratic Senate incumbents in dark red states.”    
      
   Read more & view graphs:    
      
   https://morningconsult.com/2017/10/10/trump-approval-dips-in-eve   
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