{"id":225776,"date":"2021-01-23T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=225776"},"modified":"2021-01-25T08:05:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T08:05:27","slug":"poll-trump-approval-quietly-nears-3-year-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=225776","title":{"rendered":"POLL: Trump approval quietly nears 3 year high"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sharyl Attikisson \u2013 sharylattikson.com Jan 19, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_222819\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/biden-rally.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-222819\" class=\"wp-image-222819\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/biden-rally.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/biden-rally.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/biden-rally-480x303.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 620px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-222819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Biden election rally in Philadelphia. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As President Trump has largely been thrust out of the spotlight, with removal from social media and attention focused on President-elect Joe Biden, his approval rating today reached a threshold just shy of his three-year high.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to the Rasmussen Reports daily tracking poll.<\/p>\n<p>On January 19, Trump&#8217;s approval reached 51%.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past three years, Trump&#8217;s popularity peaked a few times at 52%, according to Rasmussen Reports&#8217; graph, and once at 53%.<\/p>\n<p>The number of Trump&#8217;s popularity peaks past 50% during the past three years topped the number of Obama&#8217;s peaks at or above that level during the same time period.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s lowest popularity mark in the past three years was 42%, most recently last June. But Trump&#8217;s approval never fell as low as President Obama&#8217;s during the same time period of the Obama first term: 41% in June of 2010.<\/p>\n<p>In the weeks before the 2020 election, President Trump&#8217;s popularity frequently bested Obama&#8217;s at the same point in the Obama presidency, even though President Obama was elected for a second consecutive term and Trump will not be serving a second consecutive term.<\/p>\n<p>After his re-election, Obama&#8217;s approval skyrocketed briefly to 58%.<\/p>\n<p>See the graph and details at the link below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/trump_administration\/prez_track_jan19\">https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/trump_administration\/prez_track_jan19<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharylattkisson.com\/2021\/01\/poll-trump-approval-quietly-nears-3-year-high\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Jan 19, 2021, Trump&#8217;s approval rating was 51%. Yet we are supposed to believe that Biden won the election with a record number of votes. Even though his elections rallies were so poorly attended  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Inside_the_White_House_and_Washingtons_Beltway"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225776"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225811,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225776\/revisions\/225811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}