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Marquette poll shows Trump approval up, other surveys disagree
President Donald Trump's approval rating inched up to 40 per cent in a Marquette Law School Poll released on August 5, rising from 38 per cent in June. The survey, conducted July…
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President Donald Trump's approval rating inched up to 40 per cent in a Marquette Law School Poll released on August 5, rising from 38 per cent in June. The survey, conducted July 22-29, also found 35 per cent of adults name inflation and cost of living as their top concern. Among white voters, Marquette reports a net positive approval of 2 points, a sharp recovery from negative 12 in June.
But two other polls taken in the same late-July window tell a different story. A CNN/SSRS survey puts Trump's net approval among white voters at negative 20, the lowest of his presidency, while an Economist/YouGov poll shows negative 14. The conflicting signals complicate the outlook for November's midterms, where Democrats lead by 2 points among registered voters (46-44) but by 6 among likely voters (51-45) in Marquette's generic ballot.
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More than one-handed narratives surround these mixed polls. Some commentators seize on Marquette's bounce as proof Trump is recovering, while others call the CNN and YouGov numbers decisive. In reality, different pollsters ask different samples and weight differently; none is the single truth. The real test will be whether Marquette's upward trend for white voters or the steep drop shown by CNN holds when Americans actually cast their midterm ballots in November.
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