Approval of President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic spiked in the last week.
More than half of adults, 55%, approve of the president’s response to the crisis, while 43% do not, according to the results of an ABC News/Ipsos poll released on Friday.
The latest rendition of the survey, which was conducted Wednesday and Thursday, shows a much brighter pictures for the president from the one that came out a week earlier. Trump’s approval rating from the March 11-12 poll showed 43% of adults approved of the president’s leadership in combating the spread of the virus; 54% did not.
Contributing to the rise were Democrats. Thirty percent said they approved of the president’s job in handling the coronavirus outbreak, which was double the number of the last survey.
A total of 512 adults were interviewed in the latest poll, which had a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
Trump’s appearances during the daily coronavirus press briefings could be a reason for the spike in approval of his handling of the pandemic which has killed more than 10,000 people globally, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker.
Although he still took shots at the media, Trump spent much of these briefings explaining his administration’s response to the outbreak and allowed leaders of his task force to offer their expertise.
