Trump is stronger than national polls suggest

Published February 7, 2017 5:06am ET



President Trump is still popular in core Republican strongholds, even though he has suffered a dip in the national public opinion polls.

Trump’s approval rating is 45 percent, an underwater mark previously unseen for a president this early in his first term. But Trump’s image and his policies are holding up just fine among voters in Republican districts and states key to the president’s ability to drive his agenda through Congress, and his party’s success in 2018.

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