President Trump is, at the moment, not a very popular president. According to FiveThirtyEight’s presidential approval rating tracker, he currently has a -11.7% net approval rating, which means that the percentage of people who disapprove of his performance is 11.7 percentage points higher than the percentage of people who approve of his performance. Moreover, Mr. Trump has had a poor net approval rating for almost his entire presidency. The fact that Americans are currently not enthused with the president’s job performance seems to be an ominous omen for his re-election prospects. But to what extent is this true?
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