We just got an email from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC).
This is how it started:
Arleen, it’s official: Trump is the least popular president EVER — and even his BIGGEST cheerleaders at Fox News can’t hide his collapse!
With cratering poll numbers and the lowest 100-Day mark approval rating of any president in EIGHTY years, it’s clear: Americans are fed up with Donald Trump.
That so?
Here, from realclearpolitics.com, are the latest job approval numbers for Donald Trump for every poll this month:
| pollster | date |
Approve
|
Disapprove
|
spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP Average | 4/23 – 5/11 | 45.8 | 50.1 |
Spread-4.3
|
| Rasmussen Reports | 5/5 – 5/11 | 52 | 46 |
Spread+6
|
| Quantus Insights | 5/5 – 5/7 | 48 | 48 |
Tie
|
| Morning Consult | 5/2 – 5/4 | 46 | 52 |
Spread-6
|
| Big Data Poll | 5/3 – 5/5 | 48 | 47 |
Spread+1
|
| Economist/YouGov | 5/2 – 5/5 | 44 | 52 |
Spread-8
|
| RMG Research* | 4/30 – 5/8 | 49 | 49 |
Tie
|
| I&I/TIPP | 4/30 – 5/2 | 42 | 47 |
Spread-5
|
| Trafalgar/InsiderAdvantage | 4/30 – 5/1 | 46 | 44 |
Spread+2
|
And here, also from realclearpolitics.com, are the poll numbers for Joe Biden, over his four year presidency:
|
Approve
|
Disapprove
|
Spread
|
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Term | 43.2 | 52.5 | -9.3 | ||||
| 2021 | 49.6 | 45.4 | +4.2 | ||||
| 2022 | 41.3 | 54.2 | -12.9 | ||||
| 2023 | 42.1 | 53.8 | -11.7 | ||||
| 2024 | 40.4 | 56.1 | -15.7 |
As you can see, Biden had positive poll numbers for his first year (though it should be pointed out that the 4.2% level is an average: they started far higher than +4.2% and wound up in negative territory for the year).
For every other year he was well behind where Donald Trump is right now.
As for “the lowest 100-Day mark approval rating of any president in EIGHTY years”, I have no idea if it is true. But, apart from the meaninglessness of rating a president on just his first 100 days in office, given how egregious the “least popular president ever” lie is, I have no reason to believe it.
Simply put, the “Trump is the least popular president ever” claim is a classic example of the DSCC lying to Democrats and treating them like mindless idiots.
And trust me when I tell you that we have received many (that’s not an exaggeration: MANY) emails from Democrat sources – not just the DSCC – lying just as overtly and treating Democrats just as much like mindless idiots.
I can only hope that each time they do, some Democrats catch on.
