President Trump’s approval rating stays steady in the mid 40s

While some left leaning polls have President Donald Trump massively underwater, the aggregate of polls has the President staying steady at around the mid 40s in approval rating and about 5 points more disapproved than approved.

While these are not great numbers, for the nonstop negative coverage that the President has gotten from foreign and domestic media, combined with the usual left wing hysteria against him, and his controversial tariff policies, Mr Trump is doing better than he was at this point in his first term, and not much worse than some of his best polling stretches.

In fact, if not for left wing Quinnipiac’s poll where Trump is -18 in approval, and Reuters, which claims he has a -14 approval rating, the President would be only a couple points underwater, which would represent one of his better polling stretches.

And it should be noted that the polls that have most accurately predicted his Presidential election results have Trump at nearly even approval to disapproval. While polls shouldn’t be entirely ignored, seeing how they have consistently underestimated Trump’s actual electoral results over 3 Presidential elections, it is difficult to know if these polls aren’t underestimating him as well.

Since President Trump likely won’t be up for another election, there is no way to prove if these polls are underestimating him now. But the fact that they have underestimated him each time he was on the ballot should give us a clue that it is possible that polls intrinsically cannot accurately capture Trump’s actual support.

It is even possible that those conducting the polls, most of whom could be hostile to Trump, as doing so to try to gin up pressure against the President’s actions. They can claim that the country is against what he is doing, and thus he should stop. It can’t be proven definitively, so there is no mechanism to stop inaccurate polls from being released.

In a way, this could be seen as political interference; the supposedly neutral polling industry manufacturing the appearance of opposition to Trump’s policies where that opposition might not actually exist, to stop the President’s agenda.

Polls are fluid, so any pollster can say that the polls “were only a snapshot in time” should the public’s votes contradict the polls. Because of this, there is no accountability mechanism to stop this.

With that being said, even if one were to take polls at face value, Trump is staying pretty consistent. And the point of an elected government is to act on behalf of the people that elected them, not to simply do what the polling alleges that majority wants. If that were the case, an elected government would hardly be necessary; the country could put every policy to a plebiscite.

Either way, while it would benefit the administration if his approval ratings were a bit higher, there is no collapse in support for President Trump, no matter what the political left is claiming.