Backlash over the Trump administration’s fumbling of the Epstein investigation could be a factor behind a slew of polling showing the president’s approval rating wavering.
In a Morning Consult poll released Monday, 47 percent of voters said that they approved of Donald Trump’s performance as president. It was a slight gain of two percentage points from the prior week’s tracking survey results, but it belies a massive shift over the past month. Over the course of mid-June to mid-July, Morning Consult’s polling tracked a six-point drop in Trump’s approval rating, from 50 percent to 44 percent, alongside a surge in disapproval from 44 percent to 50 percent.
