Trump is underwater in his handling of the coronavirus, the protests and Russia.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of the three main challenges facing the country: the coronavirus pandemic, national unrest due to racial inequality, and relations with Russia, in a new ABC News / Ipsos poll. , a sign of the obstacles his reelection offer faces only three months before Election Day.
With the White House facing the biggest calculation of race since the 1960s civil rights movement, the worst public health crisis in a century, and a hostile Russia reminiscent of the Cold War, Americans have little confidence in the work Trump is doing. The three main areas.
Trump closes July as he started, with his approval of the coronavirus in his 30s. Its approval is at 34%, just where it was earlier this month (33%) when it hit a new low since ABC News / Ipsos began surveying the virus in March.
In the new poll, conducted by Ipsos in association with ABC News using the Ipsos Knowledge Panel, Trump’s approval is also deeply submerged, at 36%, for how he handles protests over racial inequality and relations with one of The country’s biggest geopolitical enemies, Russia.
An election that becomes a referendum on Trump’s handling of the coronavirus, his response to the racial movement, or his dealings with foreign adversaries spells trouble for the incumbent president. With all three crises, Trump only has the support of his own party and his base.
Republicans support Trump’s handling of the coronavirus (74%), protests (78%), and Russia (80%) by overwhelming margins. Democrats are almost uniformly opposed to Trump’s management of all three issues, with the president’s approval in single-digit numbers on the pandemic (7%), riots (8%), and Russia (8%).
About 1 in 5 Republicans disapprove of the president over the coronavirus (26%), protests (22%), and Russia (20%), and just over 9 out of 10 Democrats disapprove of all three issues.
Independents chart the country’s attitudes, with their approval dropping between 30% to 33% and their disapproval landing between 66% and 69% at COVID-19, the protests and their approach to Russia. About half of Trump’s base, white Americans with no college education, approve of his leadership in the outbreak (50%), protests (51%), and Russia (51%).
The latest numbers for Trump are particularly troublesome in his combative response to protests across the country, as his approval is in dire straits across racial lines. Only 45% of whites, 7% of African Americans, and 28% of Hispanics approve of Trump’s handling of this specific issue.
More than half of whites (55%), and the clear majority of African Americans (92%) and Hispanics (72%), disapprove.
Meanwhile, less than a third of the country believes that sending federal officials to respond to protests in cities improves the situation.
A slight majority (52%) consider that the response exacerbates the situation, and 19% say that it has no effect in any way.
Even among Americans who are supposed to be loyal to Trump, only 42% of white Americans with no college education say the presence of federal agents improves the situation. More than a third (37%) of this demographic considers that the movement worsens the situation.
The new poll comes after the president again pushed for an unproven treatment for the virus, hydroxychloroquine, against the advice of top health experts, after appearing to have broken with months of minimizing the virus’s severity by encouraging the country to wear Masks and practice social distancing last week.
It also comes amid clashes in Portland, Oregon, where the president sent federal agents to the city to stop the nightly protests that began two months ago over the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis in May. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said Wednesday she was sure officers would begin a gradual pullout from the city, an announcement Trump seemed to contradict Thursday morning, arguing that officers would only leave once they left. restore “security”.
His disapproval in his handling of relations with Russia, in particular, comes at a precarious time for the president, who has dismissed US intelligence indicating that Russia paid the Taliban to kill US troops in Afghanistan.
Trump, in an interview with Axios earlier this week, said he “never discussed” the matter in a July 23 phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and when asked why he did not raise it, he said: ” That was a phone call to discuss other things, and frankly, that’s an issue that a lot of people said was false news. ”
This ABC News / Ipsos survey was conducted by the Ipsos Public Affairs KnowledgePanel® from July 29 to 30, 2020, in English and Spanish, among a random national sample of 730 adults. Results have a 4.0 point sampling error margin, including the design effect. See the survey results and details about the methodology here.
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