President Donald Trump’s approval rating soared to an all-time high in a poll conducted by NBC, while Democrats’ favorability sank to record lows across two separate surveys.
An NBC News poll released Sunday showed that 47 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s job as president, his highest-ever approval rating in an NBC survey throughout his political career. The public still narrowly rejected Trump’s performance, with 51 percent disapproving.
The percentage of Americans who believe that the country is headed in the right direction also rose to 44 percent, though 54 percent felt that things are still on the wrong track.
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Americans were largely satisfied with Trump’s response to border security and immigration issues, with 55 percent approving and 43 percent disapproving. This closely resembles results in an earlier CNN poll that found 51 percent of respondents approved of the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
The image inverts when it comes to Trump’s handling of the economy. Fifty-four percent of respondents in the NBC poll said they disapprove of Trump’s economics policies while 44 percent approved. Results were similar to surveys by CNN and Emerson College Polling, which found that 48 percent of Americans were unhappy with how Trump is dealing with the economy.
As Trump’s approval ratings rose, Democrats’ plunged.
Only 27 percent of registered voters—including 59 percent of self-identified Democrats—had positive views of the Democratic Party, marking its lowest favorability rating in the history of NBC News polling.
In a new CNN poll also released Sunday, a mere 29 percent of Americans held favorable opinions of Democrats while 54 percent disapproved. The majority of Democrat adults said the leadership was taking the party in the wrong direction.
The CNN poll was conducted March 6-9, before the Democratic Party erupted in a civil war after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer handed Trump a victory by voting in favor of a Republican spending bill to avert a government shutdown.
“I believe that allowing Donald Trump to take even more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option,” Schumer argued, even as Rep. Nancy Pelosi blasted him for his “unacceptable” decision.
