Trump Has Always Been Unpopular

Jonathan Bernstein: “For 75 years of polling, and from Harry Truman to George W. Bush, we know that no president has gone below 25% approval. If anything, the logic of increased partisanship should have raised that floor. Trump, to be fair, never reached it…but he has always been unpopular, and was unpopular as president even when objective indicators suggested his approval rating should have been 15 or more percentages points higher.”

“Right now, he’s polling a point or two better than a president who is at 38% approval in head-to-head match-ups. That’s not someone who has escaped popular opinion consequences for his faults.”