Harvard Poll: Trump Finally Gets a Honeymoon; Job Approval High (54%)

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Posted on 11/18/2024 9:40:41 PM PST by dangus

Donald Trump never broke 50% job approval ratings in his first term, but he's smashing that barrier now... and the Senate had better pay attention. He's not in office, so the visible job he has is largely putting together his cabinet and establishing his strategy, but voters are loving it. 54% approve, and only 40% disapprove. This indicates that a substantial portion of voters who voted against him are warming up to him.

https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/HHP_Nov2024_KeyResults.pdf

A high initial approval rating normally doesn't mean much more than some of the people who voted against a new president are hopeful that the unfamiliar president will do better than they hope. Trump never got any benefit of the doubt in 2016; his earliest days were filled with accusations of coordinating his election with the Russians and painful blunders over Attorney General Jeff Sessions, General Mike Flynn and numerous campaign advisors. His job approval rating began below water and quickly fell to barely over 40%.

This term, Trump has strong support on many of his most important initiatives:

Americans support deportation of criminal illegal aliens, 72%-17%.

They want the border closed and policies which discourage illegal immigration reinstated, 64%-21%

They want government hiring to once again be race-neutral, 61%-19%.

They want government-dependent illegal aliens deported, 59%-25%.

They want new tariffs on China, 53%-29%.

They want 2017 tax cuts made permanent, 55%-19%.

HarrisX/Harvard did not poll on what I consider the most important and expect to be the one of the most popular initiatives, re-establishing the freedom of speech on social media.

What will success look like? 68% hope he can end inflation. Meanwhile their greatest fear is still the result of democratic fear-mongering: 46% are afraid he'll be a dictator. Fewer (34%) say they fear he'll govern too far to the right.

To me, the news here is that only 40% of Americans are set against Trump, and only 33% are strongly so. It's still possible to realign the nation like Reagan did.

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1 posted on 11/18/2024 9:40:41 PM PST by dangus

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2 posted on 11/18/2024 9:42:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)

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3 posted on 11/18/2024 9:44:12 PM PST by dangus

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