Analysis: Republicans don’t waver on whether they like Trump. Just on how much.
Then-candidate Donald Trump during a rally in Richmond in June 2016. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow March 7 at 4:12 PM One of the assets President Trump enjoyed during the 2016 campaign was he was broadly unknown. Not in the literal sense, of course. Any American who had watched “The Apprentice” or who had been around a New York Post from 1980 to 1995 was very aware of who Trump was.
Three in 10 respondents said some information could come out that might change public opinion on Trump. Two-thirds said nothing could move opinion numbers. Among Republicans, though, 1 in 5 thought something might emerge to change public opinion on Trump, and more than three-quarters said it would not.
The polling firm YouGov provided The Washington Post with its daily job approval numbers for Trump since February 2017. The distribution of approval among Republicans is very narrow: More than half of the days for which YouGov has polling, Trump’s approval rating among Republicans has been between 80 percent and 85 percent.
There is another metric provided by YouGov that gets closer to the question of how variable Republican support might be. If we consider what percentage of Republicans indicate they approve of Trump strongly, the pattern is a bit more spread out.
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