Trump’s Negative Rating Is Higher Than Any Other Presidential Candidate in History
The Problem Starts At The Top
Message: Trump has myriad problems, including a lack of policy depth, a dereliction of facts and an overall message — especially when he talks about race and identity — that have offended lots of voters he didn’t have to worry about in a nearly all-white Republican primary. But a general election is a whole different ballgame. Some 14 million people voted for Trump in the primaries — a record. But Obama won almost five times as many votes in the 2012 general election (66 million).
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Image: Trump may have been the Teflon Don with GOP voters, but he was Velcro with the rest of the country. Coming out of the primary, Trump’s negative rating is higher than any other presidential candidate in history. And it has gotten worse in the past month following (1) his inflammatory comments that the presiding judge in the Trump University fraud case was biased because of his Mexican heritage and (2) the veterans fundraiser imbroglio. Trump donated $1 million only after the Washington Post reported there was no evidence he had done so as promised. That led to a press conference at which Trump called reporters names like “sleaze” and, derisively, “a real beauty.” (Both reporters are children of Cuban immigrants.)
Disunity: All of that has led to a split with Republican Party leaders. Never before has the sitting speaker of the House called his party’s presumptive nominee’s comments “racist” (as Paul Ryan did with Trump’s comments on the Trump U judge). Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell chided Trump to get on message and stick to the script. One Republican senator said he would not entertain any more Trump questions and others are refusing to defend him and even threatening not to support him.
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