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Fact check: Trump makes 3 false claims in 19 words about his approval rating
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/politics/fact-check-trump-approval-record/index.htmlWashington (CNN)President Donald Trump made three false claims on Saturday in a single 19-word tweet.
The tweet: "94% Approval Rating in the Republican Party, an all time high. Ronald Reagan was 87%. Thank you!"
Facts First: Trump does not have a 94% approval rating among Republicans; he is at 90% in Gallup polling. Trump has not recorded the all-time high for Republican approval; his peak ranks sixth out of the seven Republican presidents after World War II. And Reagan's peak was 94%, not 87%.
Trump has been falsely claiming for more than a year to have set the all-time high for approval among Republican voters -- first at "over 90%," then at "93%," and now, as of June, at "94%." He has even claimed to have beaten Abraham Lincoln, though there was no scientific polling on approval ratings in the 1800s.
