
While Rasmussen’s latest poll did have Trump’s job approval at 52%, the Real Clear Politics polling average has his approval 10 points lower than that.Ħ. Rasmussen has consistently been an outlier when it comes to Trump’s approval ratings as well. On November 2, 2018, they ran a piece headlined “ Is Another Silent Red Wave Coming?” It wasn’t. Rasmussen is widely regarded as a decidedly Republican-leaning polling outfit. You know what the number is? Fifty-two percent, with no good news!” One of the polls that got the election right. I think that is a very hard sell given where his poll numbers are among independents, but we shall see!ĥ. The elites may disapprove of how I’ve done things, but the average Joe gets it. This line is a preview of how Trump is going to try to sell himself to skeptical voters in 2020: Don’t believe the way the media covers me, look at my results on the economy. “It’s a mainstream, commonsense agenda of the American people.” And no, before you even ask, I am not sick of it yet. And finally, he is attributing the decline of the Oscars to the fact that some of the actors have taken shots at him. (But I thought he hated the media?) Then he’s saying that the Oscars, like everything else, aren’t as good as they used to be. First, Trump was comparing his rally to the Academy Awards because of the amount of press that was covering it. They’ve gone down a long ways since they started hitting us a little bit, right?”

“This is like the Academy Awards used to be. First comes love then comes … ah, you know the rest. Been a great romance.”ĭonald Trump and Texas sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g. “I love this state, and I love the people of this state. I went through the whole transcript and pulled out the lines that matter most.

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