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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Trumps own pollster just confirmed his base is cracking
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/08/22/trumps-own-pollster-just-confirmed-his-base-is-weakening/?utm_term=.0ef57cafc60ePresident Trump's pollster is fighting back against the Trump is losing his base narrative a narrative to which I subscribe. But his arguments leave something to be desired. And in fact, he basically just confirmed that the cracks in the president's base are real.
Here's what Tony Fabrizio tweeted:
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First, let's note that Trump's own pollster just shared data showing 1 out of every 4 Republicans (25 percent) disapprove of Trump a number that has increased by 6 percentage points since June. If that's not losing your base, I'm not sure what is. Does it mean the base has completely deserted him? Of course not. But it shows the steady deterioration from other polls is confirmed by Trump's own pollster. And it sure as heck rebuts Trump's recent claim that his base is stronger than ever.
As I noted in my Trump's-base-is-crumbling piece a few weeks back, the 71 percent of Republicans who approved of Trump in a recent Investor's Business Daily poll was already lower than President Barack Obama's base support ever dipped. And while some recent polls show GOP approval of Trump as high as the 80s CNN recently had him at 83 percent among Republicans, and Quinnipiac University had him at 81 percent Fabrizio's numbers are actually among the worst we've seen for Trump, to date.
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President Trumps own pollster just confirmed his base is cracking (Original Post)
jpak
Aug 2017
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Gothmog
(145,130 posts)1. Even Trump's own pollster is showing that trump is losing his base
no_hypocrisy
(46,080 posts)2. The only way out of the WH on HIS terms is to make EVERYONE
hate him. Now he's dividing his base into portions and working on them.
Cicada
(4,533 posts)3. Results ignore those who no longer self Identify as Republican
Trump's decline includes not only erosion among those who NOW CONTINUE to self identify as Republican, those in the Fabrizio tables, but it also includes those who previously self identified as Republican but no longer do so. We need to poll those who previously self identified as Republican, not those who currently do.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)4. I'm not listening to anyone named after an air freshener
Febreze E I E I O. Old McTrumpster had a pollster...