The percent of Americans who say that the country is moving in the right direction has surged since Inauguration Day, from 28 percent on Jan.20 to just above 43 percent. This according to the RealClearPolitics (RCP) poll of polls. It’s still underwater, but it’s been underwater for as far back as RCP shows data, some 16 years.
It appears that Trump has seen “right direction” move up every single day he’s been in office in Term 2, That’s a better streak than he achieved in the early days of Term 1 or that his successor/predecessor Biden achieved in the beginning of his single term.
It’s almost as if the longer Trump does the things he was elected to do, the more voters like what they see.
Rasmussen Reports has Pres. Trump’s personal favorability ticking up a point in today’s survey.
Meanwhile, the New York Post reports that the Democratic party is at an all-time record level unfavorable rating of 57 percent.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) have been barnstorming across America, presumably in an effort to change that. Politico reports,
The socialist firebrands have been criss-crossing the country, attracting some of the largest crowds of their careers. Their rallies are bigger than any other events currently being held by Democrats, and party figures of all stripes are taking notice.
Dangers lay ahead,
But it is worrying some moderate Democrats who fear Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez could tug the party to the left at a time when it is rudderless and turn off swing voters in the process.
The U.K. Daily Mail has a report that I want to believe, but reads as too good to be true,
A Madison-McQueen survey released on Thursday shows 48 percent of likely California voters say they’re likely to vote for a Republican governor in 2026. That’s quite a remarkable – nearly unbelievable – statistic considering GOP voter registration in the state is just 25 percent!
But, then again, perhaps that’s why Gavin Newsom is sounding so right wing these days.
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