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Friday, May 19, 2017
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VietPress USA (May 19th, 2017):Today while Donald Trump on his way to make his first overseas visit trip to Saudi Arabia, Israel, Vatican, participate NATO and G-7 Summits; the Poll in the United States shows the American approval of his Presidency is dropping to its lowest record since his inauguration. Please read this new report from Yahoo News (https://www.yahoo.com/news/approval-president-trump-drops-lowest-since-inauguration-reuters-191320062.html).
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Approval of President Trump drops to lowest since inauguration: Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Chris Kahn
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Public approval of President Donald
Trump has dropped to its lowest level since his inauguration, according to a
Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday, after Trump was accused of mishandling
classified information and meddling with an FBI investigation.
The May 14-18 opinion poll found that 38 percent of adults
approved of Trump while 56 percent disapproved. The remaining 6 percent had
"mixed feelings."
[Click here for the full poll results:
https://goo.gl/h58p2z]
Americans appear to have soured on Trump after a tumultuous
week in the White House during which the president fought back a steady
drumbeat of critical news reports that ramped up concerns about his
administration’s ties to Russia.
The week started with revelations that Trump shared highly
classified information with Russian diplomats in a private meeting. That was
followed by reports that former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James
Comey, whom Trump recently fired, had written memos expressing concerns that
the president had pressured him to stop investigating Trump campaign ties to
Russia.
Later in the week, the Justice Department appointed former
FBI Director Robert Mueller to oversee an independent probe into contacts
between Russia and the Trump campaign.
Trump has denied colluding with the Russians and called
ongoing efforts to investigate him a "witch hunt." No politician in
history, he said, "has been treated worse or more unfairly."
While Trump remains popular with members of his own party,
many rank-and-file Republicans appear to have backed off their support for the
president during the past week.
Among Republicans, 23 percent expressed disapproval of Trump
in the latest poll, up from 16 percent in the same poll last week. The decline
in support from Republicans appears to be a primary reason why Trump's overall
approval rating is now at the lowest level since he took office.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online in English
across the United States. It gathered responses from 1,971 adults, including
721 Republicans and 795 Democrats. It has a credibility interval, a measure of
accuracy, of 3 percentage points for the entire group and 4 percentage points
for the Democrats and Republicans.
(Reporting by Chris Kahn; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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