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struggle4progress

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Wed Aug 9, 2017, 05:55 PM Aug 2017

Base crumbling [View all]



By Aaron Blake
August 8 at 8:46 AM


... A CNN poll and an Investor's Business Daily poll .. released late Monday ... both .. reinforce the idea that Trump's support among the base is in decline ...

The IBD poll shows Trump's decline even more acutely, with 71 percent of Republicans approving of him. That's down from 83 percent just a month ago.

The CNN poll shows it in a more nuanced way. While 83 percent of Republicans in that poll still approve of Trump, the number who strongly approve of him has declined from 73 percent in February to 59 percent today ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/08/08/trumps-base-is-officially-crumbling/?utm_term=.65418ba0c16a

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