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Analysis by Phillip Bump @ WashingtonPost.com, Oct. 21, 5:54 pm
[....] He’s mired in the low 40s, and there’s little suggestion he has much room to grow.
A poll released Monday by PRRI makes that clear. Only about 4 in 10 Americans approve of the job Trump is doing as president; 6 in 10 disapprove. But, importantly, 46 percent of respondents said that they both disapprove and almost certainly won’t change their minds. That includes 45 percent of independents, a group that Trump narrowly won in 2016 and that helped power his narrow overall victory.
A Post-ABC News poll from April had a more direct version of the question. At that point, more than half of respondents said they wouldn’t vote for Trump, including about the same percentage of independents.
It’s certainly possible that a Trump who pulls in 45 percent of the vote next year could still win the presidency, either due to the vagaries of the electoral vote or if a third-party candidate pulls a significant number of votes. That latter scenario, in fact, is the only one in the modern era when a president has been elected with less than 45 percent of the vote. In 2020, though, Trump would need both a third-party candidate and for his own candidacy to inspire more loyalty from his base than the Democrat inspires from theirs. The PRRI results don’t reflect that sort of loyalty/
Trump allies will no doubt point out that [....]
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