Trump denounces poll as being shown with record low approval rating

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that only 36 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s job performance.

Almost half of respondents (48%) believe US leadership has gotten weaker under Trump, compared to 27% who say it’s gotten stronger.

The latest proof of his losing season: Trump has the lowest six-month approval ratings of any modern president, going back through 70 years of polling data.

Trump’s approval rating is even higher in what the poll calls “surge counties” where it stands at 56 percent.

In addition, 60% said they believed Russian Federation tried to influence the 2016 presidential race and 41% said they thought Trump campaign aides intentionally helped those efforts, while 44% said they believed Trump benefited from Russia’s efforts. Only 28 percent respondents approved of how the president is handling health care, versus 64 percent who disapproved.

The president’s job approval rating looks quite different in the counties that propelled him to victory past year, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

The poll indicated that the Russian government’s meddling during the 2016 election would continue to haunt Trump’s presidency; 60 percent of national adults believed Russia tried to influence the election outcome and 44 percent believed that Trump benefited from that influence.

The report also found Trump’s approval rating had fallen by six points in the last three months.

Trump reacted to the survey by downplaying the result and questioning the accuracy of the poll.

Nearly half of the US population, 48 percent, thinks the country’s standing in the world has deteriorated under Trump, while 27 percent say it is stronger. Fifty-two percent said Trump’s Twitter usage was “dangerous”, while 65 percent said it was “insulting” and 68 percent said it was “inappropriate”. “If Trump’s at 36% approve/58% disapprove, with 32% approval among independents, GOP won’t hold the House”, Bill Kristol, a Republican pundit and editor-at-large of The Weekly Standard conservative news magazine tweeted on Sunday. This gives him a net approval rating of -16%. A majority, 52% also said they were of the opinion that Donald Trump was trying to impede the Russian investigation. Just 24% of those polled supported the new healthcare plan being mooted by the Republicans while 50% backed Barack Obama’s Affordable Healthcare Act.

The poll randomly sampled 1,001 adults from July 10 to July 13.