A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll published on Tuesday measured the discontent in “Trump counties”, spiking to disapproval ratings of around 50 percent.
According to the Journal: “The survey included 800 adults in counties where Mr. Trump either outperformed 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney by at least 20 percentage points or flipped a county that had favored Democrat Barack Obama in the prior election.”
Another poll by CNN released on Monday suggests that Trump support has declined significantly among non-college educated white voters, considered a key part of his support.
After his 100 days in office, Trump had a 59 percent approval rating among those voters, but it is currently at only 46 percent. Interestingly his approval rating from college-educated white voters has increased slightly, from 38 percent to 42 percent.
The decline shows that Trump voters are getting increasingly frustrated with the inability of the White House, as well as with Republicans in Congress, to pass legislation enabling a border wall, immigration restrictions, and a repeal of Obamacare.
The tax reform bill that Trump has been trying to ram through Congress by year’s end, does not resonate with half of adults in those key counties, which would not contribute to Trump’s sagging political fortunes in 2017 either, the Journal/NBC poll found.
Another feature of negative Trump voter sentiment is that there has not been greater support for Democrats. In those countries, 48 percent say they want a Republican Congress, while only 39 percent want Democrats to fill the void.
However, a Washington Post/ABC News poll from earlier found that if the 2016 election were to be held again today, even after the many controversies of his first days in office, Trump would still likely beat Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton.
The CNN poll found little sympathy for the Democratic Party, with only 37 percent of Americans having a favorable opinion of the party, down from 44 percent in March.
In fact, the 54 percent unfavorability rating tops the party’s highest unfavorability rating from 1992. Key Democratic constituencies such as nonwhites (48 percent) and young adults under 35-years-old (33 percent) are no longer interested in voting for the Dems.
