At a White House event last week, Donald Trump boasted, “The poll numbers are through the roof. Our poll numbers are great.”
Perhaps the president should’ve picked something else to brag about.
The latest national CNN poll, released yesterday, showed Trump’s approval rating down to a woeful 36%, the lowest it’s been in CNN polling in several months. Among self-identified independent voters, the president’s support is down to just 31% — an all-time low for Trump.
What’s more, it’s not the only new poll showing Trump below the 40% threshold: a national Quinnipiac poll, also released yesterday, found the president’s support down to 38%, The same results showed Trump struggling in a variety of key areas: 60% believe the Republican is not honest, 65% believe he is not level-headed, and 55% believe he not “fit to be president.”
But this was the result from the Quinnipiac report that jumped out at me:
Do you think that President Trump is mentally stable, or not?
Yes, he’s stable: 48%No, he’s not: 42%
The fact that a plurality of Americans said yes may seem like fairly good news for the president, but that’s a rather generous way of looking at the results. For one thing, Trump couldn’t quite crack the 50% mark on this question, which is hardly reassuring.









