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A new NBC poll shows Trump with the highest approval ever and a party almost completely united behind him.

Check out how they spin that finding:

Poll: Trump faces early challenges on the economy as a united GOP backs big change

A new NBC News poll shows Trump with a job approval rating as high as he's ever had. But doubts loom in voters' minds, especially over the economy and government cuts.

How will Trump handle the "challenge" of record popularity?

Voters are starting 2025 sour on the state of the economy and President Donald Trump's handling of it so far, even as his election to a second term sparked an upswing in positive feelings about the direction of the nation, according to a new national NBC News poll.

So what they're trying to avoid stating clearly is that voters had had a terrible impression of the economy and the nation's direction under Biden, and now, under Trump, they are much more positive about the economy and the direction of the country. NBC wants to emphasize that the public still has doubts -- not that the public's mood has shifted much more positive than it had been.

Buoyed by jubilant and unified Republicans, who are standing in lockstep with Trump and the expansive agenda he and congressional leaders are pushing in Washington, more registered voters see the U.S. as heading in the right direction than at any point since early 2004, though a majority still say the country is on the wrong track. Trump's approval rating also equals his best-ever mark as president (47%), though again, a majority (51%) disapproves of his performance.

Remember, this is a #Rigged NBC poll of the NPR editors and fading celebrities with multiple transgender children. The numbers may be a touch off.

Meanwhile, driven in part by a pessimistic shift among Democrats since Trump's election, just 18% of voters rate the economy as "excellent" or "good" -- not as low as the poorest economic marks during the Biden administration, according to CNBC polling from 2022, but within a handful of points and as low as that mark has been in NBC News polling since 2014. Majorities of voters disapprove of Trump's early job performance on the economy (54% disapprove, 44% approve) and how he's handling inflation and the cost of living (55% disapprove, 42% approve).

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Overall, the poll reflects an America that remains deeply divided in the months following Trump's 2024 victory, as it was in the months before.

The liberal media rule is that if any liberal is unsatisfied with a Republican, the public is "deeply divided."

Biden, on the other hand, was popular, until the media pressured him to drop out.

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In another change from Trump's first term in the White House, the public has come around on his deportation-focused immigration policies, though voters are wary of his handling of other issues, including foreign policy.

Voters like the general idea of the Department of Government Efficiency, the Trump-blessed effort to slash government jobs and spending. But they harbor reservations about its rapid-fire execution so far, as well as about billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk, DOGE's de facto head.

And voters are split evenly on which party they'd like to see win the 2026 midterm elections, even as the Democratic Party faces record-low popularity and fractious divides over how to respond to Trump. (The survey was conducted March 7-11, before Senate Democrats provided a handful of votes to help resolve a government funding fight.)

"While this survey shows a mixed result for Donald Trump, Democrats are the ones in the wilderness right now," said Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates, who conducted this survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies. Horwitt called Trump's upside-down numbers among independents "a flashing red light across the survey."

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Trump's job approval rating (47%) and personal favorable rating (46%), along with the 44% who believe the country is on the right track, are at all-time highs in NBC News polling during his political career.

But they are also far below where previous presidents stood during the "honeymoon period" of new administrations, marking the polarization that has defined the Trump years. Slightly more disapprove of Trump's job performance (51%) and view him personally negatively (49%), and 54% see the country as on the wrong track.

Yes, because the Demented Usurprer Biden drove the country into a ditch and it's taking time to get ourselves out of it.

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When it comes to the issues, Trump fares particularly well on immigration. Fifty-five percent of voters approve of his handling of border security and immigration, while 43% disapprove. A similar share, 56%, say he's bringing the "right kind of change" on the issue, while 25% say he's bringing the wrong change and 18% say he isn't bringing change.

But that's the only one of the five issues tested in the poll -- border security and immigration, foreign policy, the economy, inflation and cost of living, and the war between Russia and Ukraine -- that sees a majority of American voters approve of how Trump is handling it.

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Just 1% rate the economy as "excellent" and 17% as "good," with 39% calling it "only fair" and 43% rating it "poor." While Republicans are more likely to have favorable views of the economy than others, majorities across virtually every demographic still view the economy in an unfavorable light.

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The NBC News poll also gauged voters' feelings on what kind of change Trump is bringing as president, with 40% saying he's bringing the right kind of change to inflation and the cost of living, while 30% say he's bringing the wrong change and 28% say he isn't bringing change.

On trade and tariffs, 41% say he's bringing the right change, 38% say the wrong change and 18% say he is not bringing change.

Overall, 46% said Trump is bringing the right kind of change, 30% said he's bringing the wrong kind of change, and 21% said he's not bringing change.

A CNN poll finds that the Democrat Party is more unpopular than it has ever been in their polling history.

The Democratic Party's favorability rating among Americans stands at a record low, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, fueled in part by dimming views from its own frustrated supporters.

With many in the party saying publicly that their leaders should do more to stand up to President Donald Trump, Democrats and Democratic-aligned independents say, 57% to 42%, that Democrats should mainly work to stop the Republican agenda, rather than working with the GOP majority to get some Democratic ideas into legislation.

The survey was taken March 6-9, days before 10 Democratic senators -- including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer -- voted with Republicans in the chamber to advance a GOP-authored spending bill to avert a government shutdown, much to the chagrin of many other Democratic lawmakers and progressive critics.

Democrats view their own party unfavorably:

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Democratic-aligned adults say, 52% to 48%, that the leadership of the Democratic Party is currently taking the party in the wrong direction. That's another shift from eight years ago, when views on this metric were largely positive.

Among the American public overall, the Democratic Party's favorability rating stands at just 29% -- a record low in CNN's polling dating back to 1992 and a drop of 20 points since January 2021, when Trump exited his first term under the shadow of the January 6 attack at on Capitol. The Republican Party's rating currently stands at 36%.

That's driven in part by relatively high levels of dissatisfaction within the Democratic Party. Just 63% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents report a favorable view of their own party, a dip from 72% in January and 81% at the start of President Joe Biden's administration. The decline comes across ideological wings, with favorability ratings for the Democratic Party falling by 18 points among liberals and moderates alike since the start of 2021.

The public no longer believes the Democrat Party is "mainstream."

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Both the Democratic and the Republican parties are viewed by about half the public as having views and policies that are too extreme, rather than generally mainstream. That's a change from 2022, when most Americans -- 56% -- called the Democratic Party's positions mainstream. Views of the GOP have remained effectively unchanged over that time.

Democrats don't like any of their possible candidates:

Democrats, who overwhelmingly consider Trump too extreme, have yet to consolidate around any one-party leader to serve as a counterpoint. Asked in an open-ended question to name the Democratic leader they feel "best reflects the core values" of the party, 10% of Democratic-aligned adults name New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 9% former vice president Kamala Harris, 8% Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and 6% House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Another 4% each name former president Barack Obama and Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, with Schumer joining a handful of others at 2%.

More than 30% didn't offer a name in response. "No one," one respondent answered. "That's the problem."

Democrats are particularly angry at Cuck Schumer for suggesting he was going to fight the CR before cucking out like a closet cuck. They're so angry, in fact, that Schumer has cancelled his book tour -- he's afraid of protests and difficult questions, but is also, he says, afraid that some of his leftwing supporters might try to physically attack him.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has canceled book tour events this week because of security concerns amid a backlash over his support for a Republican bill to prevent a government shutdown last week.

As a commenter said, he must be afraid of all those White Supremacists angry at him for not being more opposed to Trump.

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Event pages for several of the planned stops for Schumer's book, Antisemitism in America: A Warning, which is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, showed postponement announcements on Monday morning.

"Sen. Schumer's book tour events during the week of March 17 are being postponed for security reasons. We will work to reschedule this event at a later date," reads the page for an event planned to be held Wednesday at Sixth & I, a synagogue in Washington, D.C.

There were calls to protest his speeches following his vote on the funding bill, which is also known as a continuing resolution (CR).

"PROTEST SCHUMER'S BOOK TOUR NEXT WEEK," Emma Vigeland, co-host of the left-leaning show The Majority Report, posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Friday while also sharing a list of events planned for this week.

Backlash against Schumer continued into Monday, as he faced growing calls from the party to step down as the Democratic Senate leader. An online petition of Democrats who would withhold party donations until he steps down had been signed nearly 25,000 times.

If you want to see that nasty crabfarming whore Mike Brzezinski deliver the bad news, you can watch that here.

The 2Way guys think that the real reason Schumer is cancelling his book tour is that, for the first time in his political life, he'll face hostile questions from the leftwing media. Sean Spicer thinks that he's afraid that he just doesn't have the practice at handling a hostile press, and could destroy his remaining career with one maladroit answer.

But also, Democrat partisans and Hamas supporters might try to kill him.

Because Democrats are the party of love and tolerance and moderation.

posted by Ace at 05:45 PM

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