Trump is more popular than ever, but there's more to the story
4 takeaways from a mid-crisis polling spike for the U.S. president
Alexander Panetta · CBC News · Posted: Mar 28, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
U.S. President Donald Trump, seen here wearing a campaign cap during a meeting to discuss the pandemic at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta earlier this month, is seeing the best polling numbers of his presidency. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via The Associated Press)
Sorry to the haters, doubters and slack-jawed disbelievers: Donald Trump has the highest approval ratings of his presidency.
The barrage of criticism he's faced in the media over his handling of the COVID-19 crisis does not erase the fact that he's getting
decent marks from the public.
He's closer than ever to cracking the 50 per cent mark in public approval.
Trump took a pause Friday from dealing with this deadly, economy-pulverizing pandemic to
tweet his thanks to a journalist who pointed out his poll numbers.
As the president often does, he insisted his real support must be much higher than what's in the media. "Add 10 points!" he tweeted.
Needless to say, you can't arbitrarily add 10 points to a survey and call it statistically sound. But here are a few things we can definitely glean from the polling so far.
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