Trump Breaks Even in Job Approval
It’s a 47-47 nation, according to Rasmussen Reports’ first job approval survey on President-elect Donald Trump.
The new national telephone and online survey finds that 47% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of the job Trump is doing as president-elect, and just as many (47%) disapprove. That includes 30% who Strongly Approve of his job performance and 37% who Strongly Disapprove. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on December 14-15, 2016 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
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