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Being above 50% approval is a helluva accomplishment in today’s toxic political environment. For context, President Donald Trump is currently at 41.8% in the RealClearPolitics average, which is about even with Barack Obama’s 42.2% at this stage of his second term and 4 points higher than George W. Bush’s 37.8%.