Trump Reaches the 50% Approval Mark in One Poll

It is very rare for modern presidents to ever have majority support. Even Obama, who the media told me was a transformational figure that everyone loved (Except Racists (TM)) spent his entire presidency at 43-45% approval.

Insider Advantage says that Trump's at 50%.

President Trump is sitting at an even 50 percent approval rating nationally, placing him nine points above water nearly a year into his second term, according to a new survey from InsiderAdvantage. The poll, conducted Saturday among 800 likely voters, found 50 percent approve of Trump's job performance, while 41 percent disapprove and 9 percent remain undecided -- a solid net-positive showing at a stage when many modern presidents have already slipped underwater.

The numbers show familiar but politically important divides. Trump continues to post strong margins with men, nearly six in ten of whom approve of his performance, compared to just over a third who disapprove. Women remain more skeptical, with approval and disapproval nearly evenly split but tilted slightly negative. Age breakdowns, however, may raise alarms for Democrats heading toward the 2026 midterms. Trump runs even among voters under 40 and posts clear net-positive approval among voters 40 and older, including a +5 margin with seniors -- a bloc that often turns out heavily in midterm elections.

Among voters aged 18 to 39, Trump's approval and disapproval are deadlocked, while voters between 40 and 64 give him a comfortable edge.

Gen X represent.

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The InsiderAdvantage results are more favorable to Trump than the broader national picture reflected in RealClearPolling, which currently shows the president below water overall. Still, a net-positive approval rating at this point in a presidency is a rare commodity in modern politics[.]

A YouGov poll has Trump at a mere 39% with "adults" and 42% with actually registered voters. Gotta figure "adults" includes a lot of illegals.

Does this matter? Eh, probably not. I continue to think Trump wins or loses based on how the economy looks by July 2026. If it's not more in the Ace range than the garret range, Trump loses Congress and spends his last two years dodging subpoenas. If it looks good, he keeps Congress and locks in Trumpism as the dominant alternative to AOC/Mamdani communism.

I know you guys don't like poll posts but can I reply that days before a holiday are very slow news days and I have had a case of Senioritis since before Thanksgiving?

Also: I had another post ready to go, but it's a Bad News post, and I didn't want to use a Bad News post to say:

Merry Christmas! Okay It's not Christmas yet. Merry Christmas Eve!

What are your plans? I'm mostly going to be nestling.

"I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!"

Whoop and Hallo to thee!

(Looking it up: Laocoön was a Trojan seer punished by the gods. He was attacked by great serpents. I don't know what Dickens means but my guess is that, by hiking up his stockings high, he resembles Laocoön being devoured, one leg at a time, by serpents. The stockings being likened to snakes. If it's not that, I'm stumped.)

Oh, and here's how George Sloppadopoulos' Disney Groomer News Network reported on Trump's 4.3% GDP figure, compared to how they reported Biden's 2.8%:

posted by Ace at 12:12 PM

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