President Trump says his approval rating would be at 75 percent were it not for the Russia probe.
“Without the phony Russia Witch Hunt, and with all that we have accomplished in the last almost two years (Tax & Regulation Cuts, Judge’s, Military, Vets, etc.) my approval rating would be at 75% rather than the 50% just reported by Rasmussen,” Trump tweeted Thursday morning. “It’s called Presidential Harassment!”
Without the phony Russia Witch Hunt, and with all that we have accomplished in the last almost two years (Tax & Regulation Cuts, Judge’s, Military, Vets, etc.) my approval rating would be at 75% rather than the 50% just reported by Rasmussen. It’s called Presidential Harassment!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 6, 2018
Trump says he feels his accomplishments, which he notes as tax and regulation cuts and the confirmation of a swath of new federal judges, far outweigh negative views of his time in office sparked by the “phony Russian witch hunt.”
The president has said special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian collusion with the Trump campaign was “baseless,” and he has called it a “witch hunt” — suggesting the prosecutor is searching for a crime that didn’t happen to pin on Trump.
In Thursday’s daily presidential tracking poll by right-leaning Rasmussen, Trump had a 49 percent approval rating among likely U.S. voters.
FiveThirtyEight’s pollster ranking grades Rasmussen a C+ in its polls accuracy, and the site has Trump’s approval at 42.1 percent when averaging several polls together.
Several presidents have reached 75 percent approval at some point in their presidency, if only fleetingly, according to Gallup’s historical trends on approval. President George H.W. Bush got there in 1991 after the Persian Gulf War. But his approvals quickly fell and he lost re-election the next year.
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