President Donald Trump received his lowest approval rating yet on the top issues voters elected him to fix, according to the newly released Quinnipiac University poll.
The poll, released Wednesday, showed 38% of voters approved of Trump’s handling of the economy, while 57% disapproved and 5% had no opinion. Quinnipiac noted that Trump’s approval rating on the economy is the lowest score he has received since the start of his first term in February 2017, which is when the pollster started asking the question.
Trump’s previous low on the economy was just last month, when 39% of voters approved of his handling of the issue.
“With a nearly 20-point gap between approval and disapproval on President Trump’s handling of the economy, it’s a low water mark for a president who promised a vibrant and muscular economy,” Quinnipiac University Polling analyst Tim Malloy said in the…
