{"id":98021,"date":"2017-10-25T23:18:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T23:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/fox-news-poll-storms-erode-trumps-ratings.html"},"modified":"2017-10-25T23:18:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T23:18:17","slug":"fox-news-poll-storms-erode-trumps-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/fox-news-poll-storms-erode-trumps-ratings.html","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Poll: Storms erode Trump’s ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"President<\/p>\n

\n President Donald Trump waves as he prepares to board Air Force One for a trip to Dallas, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)<\/p>\n

Was it the tweet storms or the hurricanes?\u00a0 Something hit President Trump\u2019s numbers.\u00a0 His personal ratings have deteriorated and his job approval has hit a low.<\/p>\n

Thirty-eight percent of voters approve of the job Trump is doing in a new Fox News poll, down from 42 percent last month.\u00a0 At the same time, disapproval is up 4 points to a high of 57 percent.\u00a0 That includes 49 percent who \u201cstrongly\u201d disapprove.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\"POLL1\"\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Some of the drop comes from white men without a college degree, as 56 percent approve of the president, down from 68 percent last month.\u00a0 Working-class white men were a key voting bloc for him in the election (71 percent backed Trump according to the Fox News Exit Poll).\u00a0<\/p>\n

READ THE FULL POLL RESULTS.<\/a><\/p>\n

Also, his approval among white evangelical Christians went from 74 percent last month to 66 percent now.\u00a0 Eighty percent backed him in the election.<\/p>\n

Approval among independents fell to 30 percent (46 percent of independents voted for Trump).<\/p>\n

Republican support held steady at 83 percent approval.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

John Kelly bests his boss:\u00a0 42 percent approve of the job the White House chief of staff is doing, while 30 percent disapprove.\u00a0 Twenty-nine percent of voters are unable to rate him, including 25 percent of Republicans.\u00a0 Fewer Republicans approve of Kelly (69 percent) than Trump (83 percent).\u00a0 Yet more than three times as many Democrats approve of Kelly (24 vs. 7 percent).<\/p>\n

Thirty-three percent think Trump is honest and trustworthy, though that\u2019s hardly changed from just before the election when 35 percent felt that way (November 2016).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Roughly 4-in-10 think Trump has the knowledge (38 percent), compassion (37 percent), and judgment (37 percent) to serve effectively as president.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

A similar 38 percent believe Trump \u201ccares about people like me,\u201d while 6-in-10 disagree (60 percent).\u00a0 Those most likely to feel he doesn\u2019t care include non-whites (79 percent), women (68 percent), voters under age 45 (68 percent), and lower-income voters (67 percent).<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s favorability stands at 39 percent.\u00a0 That\u2019s down from 44 percent in August, and a high of 47 percent in June.\u00a0 His unfavorable number is 59 percent.<\/p>\n

Voters are more favorable toward Melania Trump than her husband, but her numbers have taken a hit too.\u00a0 She\u2019s at 45 percent favorable and 34 percent unfavorable.\u00a0 It was 51-28 percent in June.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The White House receives mixed marks for its response to recent disasters.\u00a0 Voters give net positive ratings for the response to the hurricanes that hit Houston (+7 points) and Florida (+2), but sharply negative ratings to how it responded to the Puerto Rico hurricane (-32), mass shooting in Las Vegas (-23), and the California wildfires (-21).<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\"POLL2\"\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, 60 percent disapprove of how Trump\u2019s handling health care.\u00a0 One third approves (33 percent).\u00a0 At a net negative 27, that makes health care his worst issue rating.\u00a0 He performs better — but is still underwater — on North Korea (-24 points), Iran (-21), taxes (-14), and the economy (-5).\u00a0<\/p>\n

President Obama\u2019s signature law remains divisive.\u00a0 Twenty-five percent would repeal the health care law entirely (near the low of 23 percent wanting repeal), while another 31 percent would repeal parts of the law.\u00a0 On the other hand, a record 29 percent would expand it, and 13 percent would leave it as is.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When asked to look ahead 10 years, most voters expect at least some of the law will be changed:\u00a0 21 percent expect it to be repealed entirely, up from 16 percent in 2015.\u00a0 \u00a0Nearly half, 47 percent, say parts will be repealed.\u00a0 Fewer than one in four thinks it will be either expanded (14 percent) or left alone (9 percent).<\/p>\n

What happens with health care carries more risk than reward for Republicans.\u00a0 The poll shows about the same number would credit Obama or the Democrats in Congress (37 percent) as Trump or the Republicans (33 percent) if the health insurance system improves.\u00a0 If the system gets worse, however, twice as many would blame Trump or the GOP (48 percent) as Democrats or Obama (22 percent).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\"POLL3\"\t\t\t<\/p>\n

In addition, a record 54 percent of voters have a favorable opinion of ObamaCare.\u00a0 Forty-two percent view it negatively.<\/p>\n

Pollpourri<\/b><\/p>\n

Voters like their past presidents more than their current one: 63 percent have a favorable opinion of Obama, and 59 percent view George W. Bush positively.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Among Trump voters, the president receives his largest negative rating on trust, as 14 percent say he is dishonest.\u00a0 Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), himself once a Trump supporter, tweeted about the president\u2019s dishonesty Tuesday, \u201cSame untruths from an utterly untruthful president.\u201d\u00a0 That was in response to the president tweeting, in part, that Coker had decided against running for reelection \u201cwhen I refused to endorse him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Overall, 57 percent of voters disapprove of Trump\u2019s tweets, while 30 percent \u201cwish he\u2019d be more cautious.\u201d\u00a0 Only 11 percent approve.\u00a0 Even Trump voters aren\u2019t as enamored as they once were:\u00a0 25 percent approve of his tweeting, down from 35 percent in March.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\"POLL4\"\t\t\t<\/p>\n

The Fox News poll is based on landline and cellphone interviews with 1,005 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide and was conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw Company Research (R) from October 22-24, 2017.\u00a0 The poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points for all registered voters.<\/p>\n

Article source: http:\/\/feeds.foxnews.com\/~r\/foxnews\/politics\/~3\/ZbVq2ZCVmcI\/fox-news-poll-storms-erode-trumps-ratings.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump waves as he prepares to board Air Force One for a trip to Dallas, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci) Was it the tweet storms or the hurricanes?\u00a0 Something hit President Trump\u2019s numbers.\u00a0 His personal ratings have deteriorated and his job approval has hit a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-98021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}