Trump’s Popularity Revisits Low as Government Agencies Shut Down

Morning Consult: Days into a partial government shutdown triggered by President Donald Trump’s demand for increased funding for his proposed wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, a new Morning Consult survey finds voters as bearish as ever on the president’s job performance.

In the Dec. 21-23 poll, which began surveying registered voters two hours before some government agencies shut down amid an impasse over wall funding, 39 percent of registered voters — including 80 percent of Republicans — approved of the president’s job performance, while 56 percent — including 90 percent of Democrats and 57 percent of independents — did not.

Those figures match the nadir of the president’s popularity in August 2017 — when Trump responded to the fatal melee between white supremacists and counter-protesters at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., by blaming “many sides.”

The latest national online survey of 1,992 registered voters was conducted amid a hectic news cycle, when Trump made major news on a number of fronts.

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