Trump's Approval Ratings and Independents

While his approval rating is at a very low level, the

lowest of his presidency, CNN's Harry Enten, looking at all

the numbers, how low is it?

You know, if this were a game of limbo, President Trump would be winning.

Unfortunately, this is the game of presidential popularity,

and he is

reaching record lows yet again. He is losing.

Just take a look here. Okay, Trump net approval hits a

term two low. Look at this, 31 points

underwater. 31 points underwater according to Ipsos,

the Reuters Ipsos

poll. Look where he was at the beginning of term number two.

He was at plus six points. So he is down, what is that?

The math, quickly with me, 37 points from where he was at

the beginning of his second presidency.

You know, President Trump was unpopular going into the midterms

during his first

presidency, but not anywhere-

Mm

... as unpopular as this. He was 12 points underwater, so he is doing,

versus where he was at term number one at this point, he is doing, what is the math

here? Quickly. He is doing 19 points worse than he

was doing

in term number one at this point, and of course, those midterms were quite

disastrous for the Republican Party.

So you look at these numbers, and you just go, "Oi Vey," if you're a

Republican.

All right. Independents have a big role to play

always in

elections. Give us some sense of where they stand

because there is still a lot of

the party that supports Donald Trump.

Yeah. Okay. So you know what? Republicans still, in large part,

support Donald

Trump. But it's Independents who are the name of the game.

They are the driver in elections. And just look at why

these numbers are falling the way that they are.

It is because of Independents.

Look at these drops. I mean, Trump's net approval rating among

Independents term

two, he's 47 points underwater now.

47 points underwater. He was at minus one point at the beginning of

his presidency,

basically treading water, right? So what is that?

That's a 46-point drop. So you see that drop

of what? 31 points from where he was at the beginning of his presidency, or

37 points from where he was at the beginning of his presidency

among the overall

electorate, but that's nothing compared to this

46-point drop among

Independents. And look at, compare that to where he was at this point in term

number one before those midterms.

Again, he was underwater then, but he was just 10 points underwater then.

Now he's 47 points underwater, so that's a drop of what?

37 points? So this has been the problem with

President Trump's

second term according to the public, which is he is going and

placating the base, but leaving the center of the electorate

behind.

But you know what? You have to win the center of the

electorate in order to

maintain your popularity, in order for Republicans to win in these

midterm

elections, but Independents are saying, "You know what?

We don't like what's going on. See you later."

Yeah. And the big question is, do they show up and vote for a Democrat,

or do they

not show up? You, you, you, those are always the questions-

Those are the questions

... you have to ask. I do-