Not very, unfortunately.
NBC/WSJ POLL: Donald Trump’s approval rating has risen to 45 percent, with disapproval at 52 percent.
Among Republicans, 88 percent approve.
That’s the highest intra-party rating of any president at this stage since the dawn of modern polling, except Bush, post-9/11.https://t.co/vqbr6iReCr pic.twitter.com/K9lUmJbXv8
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 23, 2018
The bottom line is simple enough: The job economy is doing better than it has since the financial crisis. Oh, it’s still not a good job economy–the unemployment rate is low, but the labor force participation rate hasn’t recovered, and wages aren’t increasing like they would be if it was actually a tight labor market.
But still, it’s a relatively good economy.
As for the rest, the fact is that most Americans don’t think that the Russia story is important: It’s not a major concern to them, but Democrats are insisting on running with it. If they run with it in the mid terms they will shoot themselves in the foot unless they have hard, obvious evidence.
These numbers are also why Trump isn’t going to be impeached by Republican members of the House: They would lose their next primary.
Trump’s a nasty piece of work in a lot of ways: Drone murders are up by three times from Obama (who increased them about ten times from Bush), he’s saber rattling at Iran, and his immigration policies are cruel, rather than just strict.
But most people don’t care that much about such things. And it shows in the numbers.
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