Mod: In times of national crisis it is only natural for the American people to rally around the nation's president. Just not this particular president.
Poll: Trump's coronavirus bounce fizzles (
Politicolink): More voters say the
Trump administration isn’t doing enough to combat the coronavirus outbreak, according to a new
POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. The survey, conducted immediately before President
Donald Trump announced a 30-day extension of his physical and social distancing guidelines “to slow the spread” of
Covid-19, shows 47 percent of voters feel the administration isn’t doing enough in response to the outbreak, greater than the 40 percent who feel the administration is doing the right amount.
Two weeks ago, 43 percent said the administration wasn’t doing enough in the days following the initial measures deployed to reduce the impacts of the virus, while 39 percent said it was doing the right amount.
While the new poll was conducted before the extension of the household isolation recommendations, it comes as other polls suggest the positive marks
Trump earned for his early response to the crisis are turning more negative.
A
CNN/SSRS survey released Monday showed
Americans split evenly on whether the federal government has done a good or bad job handling the outbreak, and two
Democratic polls conducted in recent days — from
Navigator and
Daily Kos/Civiqs— show more respondents say they disapprove of the way
Trump is handling the situation then in surveys conducted last week. That is despite
Trump's previous polling bounce, as some
Democratic and independent voters rallied behind him during the early days of the crisis. A separate
Morning Consult tracking poll shows
Trump’s net approval on handling coronavirus — the difference between the percentage who approve and disapprove of his job performance — sliding 7 points off its high from March 20.
Voters are increasingly worried about the coronavirus: 60 percent say they are “very concerned” about the outbreak, up from 53 percent last week and 41 percent two weeks ago. Similarly, 41 percent of voters say the virus has been “very disruptive” to their lives, up from 35 percent last week and only 18 percent the week before that.
Asked about how he is handling the outbreak, a quarter of voters, 25 percent, say
Trump is doing an “excellent” job, while an additional 18 percent rate his performance as “good.” But nearly as many as that 43 percent giving
Trump positive marks say he’s done a “poor” job, 40 percent. Eleven percent say the job
Trump has done has been “just fair.”
Trump’s ratings pale in comparison to those for the governors of the various states. A combined 62 percent say their state’s governor has done an “excellent” or “good” job handling the crisis.
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