It is not too long ago, as you rubbed his stunned eyes: Despite the many controversies and controversial decisions, the survey values of Donald Trump have steadily increased. At the end of October, more than 43 percent of Americans have found and Americans, that your current President is doing a good Job. The were so many as since the beginning of trump’s term of office, not more and almost as many as in previous Barack Obama at the same time.
But trump’s upward trend, thanks to the humming US economy that took place just before Christmas, came to an abrupt end. Since the 22. December, as the Shutdown began, dropped his Approval ratings from 42.2 to the current level of 39.4 percent. At the same time, the share of those who approve of Trump as President is miss rose, from 52.8 to 56 percent. So the rejection was not for a year, as a summary of all the major opinion polls by the US data journalists from Five Thirty Eight shows.
According to the polls is Trump not so unpopular as never before. The main reason for its downward trend – as everyone agrees – the Shutdown itself. Trump wanted to force the funding of its planned 5.7 billion-Dollar border wall with Mexico, the Democrats denied him. 35 days long, parts of the US Federal government were, therefore, still, an estimated 350’000 employees have been forced on leave, 800’000 state employees received no wage. Companies that the life of public contracts, sat on the Dry. And the longer the Shutdown lasted, the more people were affected.
Trump gave in, finally, and signed a law, that the financing of the government’s work for the next three weeks – probably because the public opinion against him, spent. More and more Americans blamed him in the longest budget crisis in US history.
at the beginning of the Shutdown, the President in the fight for the favor of the population. In the last five weeks of this condition has increased. Currently, more than half of the respondents Trump make responsible for the crisis, only about 34 percent give the Democrats the blame. Especially people who describe themselves as politically independent, are increasingly turning against the President.
“For the first Time, we see evidence of a break-up with his base.”Lee Miringoff, a political researcher
Still able to count Trump on the support of his party. 80 to 90 percent of the Republicans were so far behind him. However, numerous surveys suggest that this share has declined sharply. According to the National Public Radio and the conservative channel Fox News, he fell last month to 10 percent.
In the case of hard-liners, which consist of the construction of the border wall to Mexico, Trump, since his backing down in the dispute with the Democrats, as one who breaks his promises. “The hard core of his supporters is off the wall, and he melts”, echauffierte a former employee of the White house to the news magazine “Politico”. Trump tried to defend himself. “That was in no way a concession,” he wrote on Friday on Twitter:
I wish people would read or listen to my words on the Border Wall. This was in no way a concession. It was taking care of millions of people who were getting badly hurt by the Shutdown with the understanding that in 21 days, if no deal is done, it’s off to the races!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 26. January 2019
many of his regular voters, this did apparently nothing. “For the first Time, we see evidence of a break with his base,” said Lee Miringoff from the Marist Institute for Public Opinion for National Public Radio. Whether this was only a temporary effect of the Shutdown or a larger Problem for the President, he could not say.
Also from the point of view of other political observers, it is not foreseeable how the record-breaking deep impact flight of Trumps survey values in the long term. Up to the next U.S. presidential election is still almost two years. Currently, however, shows clear: Trump cut with the imposed Shutdown in the foot.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 28.01.2019, 16:51 PM
