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DonViejo

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Tue Sep 25, 2018, 07:18 AM Sep 2018

Trump Says His Accomplishments Are Great. The Public Isn't Buying It.


From North Korea to taxes to Puerto Rico, voters surveyed did not believe Trump’s sells on his greatest accomplishments.

Gideon Resnick
09.25.18 4:45 AM ET

As he gears up for a difficult midterm election, President Donald Trump has campaigned on a record of massive accomplishments: a nuke deal with North Korea, the death of Obamacare and a sweeping tax reform package that has benefited America’s middle class.

Much of it is Trumpian embellishment. And a new Ipsos poll conducted for The Daily Beast shows that the public, simply put, isn’t buying it.

In the poll, only six percent of respondents said they believe North Korea had “destroyed its stockpile of nuclear weapons in the last year;” 68 percent said the country had not; and 26 percent said they don’t know. Trump has claimed that North Korea is “no longer a nuclear threat” though international inspectors say it is still building its arsenal. Those who have not bought the president’s line include his fellow Republicans, 66 percent of whom said that North Korea had, in fact, not destroyed its stockpile.

The survey also asked whether the Affordable Care Act had “been fully repealed.” Just six percent of respondents believed—erroneously—that that was the case while 70 percent said that was false and 23 percent said they did not know. Among Democrats, 76 percent said that the law known as Obamacare had not been fully repealed and among Republicans, 75 percent said the same. President Trump has oscillated in his approach to the subject at campaign rallies. More often than not, he criticizes the deceased Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) whose last-minute “no” vote sunk the Senate’s repeal effort. But because the individual mandate was repealed as part of the Republican tax reform package, he often concludes that the ACA was “essentially dead.”

The Ipsos survey also asked voters whether the aftermath of Hurricane Maria was “handled well by the government.” Just 18 percent said that it was while 60 percent said it was not and 22 percent said they did not know. Trump has said his administration has done a “fantastic job” in Puerto Rico and cast doubt on the number of people killed in the storm. Only 39 percent of Republicans said his government did a good job in the storm’s aftermath.

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Trump Says His Accomplishments Are Great. The Public Isn't Buying It. (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2018 OP
What accomplishments? Gothmog Sep 2018 #1
It's all lies. smirkymonkey Sep 2018 #2
Those are some pretty strikingly low numbers from Republicans jcgoldie Sep 2018 #3
The theft of a nation is an accomplishment???? BeckyDem Sep 2018 #4

jcgoldie

(11,584 posts)
3. Those are some pretty strikingly low numbers from Republicans
Tue Sep 25, 2018, 09:39 AM
Sep 2018

Even they don't seem to be buying the BS although they do seem willing to swallow it indefinitely.

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