Voter approval of President Donald Trump surged “upward” following his Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, likely giving him an advantage entering his peace meetings Monday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other world leaders.
InsiderAdvantage found in its three-day survey that 54% of voters approve of Trump while 44% don’t, a big swing up from where he was entering the Putin meeting.
Pollster Matt Towery said, “Overall, his approval numbers are surging upwards post-summit.”
Towery noted that Trump’s approval among likely voters is on the march upward with most voting groups, a finding that flies in the face of critical liberal media that shifted into overtime all weekend to rip the Putin summit as a failure for not securing a ceasefire in Ukraine.
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“Donald Trump now has an advantage among every age group other than the most senior of voters. He has improved his numbers among African-Americans and Hispanic-Latinos. White voters are at a near record 64%. Voters under 65 years of age now approve of his job performance by wide margins. Only the nation’s oldest voters disapprove of his job performance, which is consistent with our prior surveys,” Towery said.
White House officials have argued that the Friday summit with Putin was a welcome door opening after former President Joe Biden pushed U.S.-Russia relations to a new low and did not work to prevent the war.
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In their joint press conference after the three-hour meeting in Alaska, Putin agreed with Trump’s oft-stated brag that had he been president, the 2022 escalation by Russian forces into Ukraine would not have occurred.
On Monday, Trump hopes to win Zelensky’s pledge to negotiate an end to the war.
