To defend Trump’s third term ambitions, the GOP keeps pointing to polls, which are a) irrelevant, and b) less impressive than they claim.
Trump and his team…SUCK!
Trump and his team pretend he’s riding a wave of popularity (but he’s not) - MSNBC
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-team-pretend-s-riding-wave-popularity-s-not-rcna199059
When Donald Trump told NBC News over the weekend that he’s serious about pursuing a third term — the plain language of the U.S. Constitution notwithstanding — the president suggested to Kristen Welker that his public support was helping shape his perspective:
You have to start by saying, I have the highest poll numbers of any Republican for the last 100 years. We’re in the high 70s in many polls, in the real polls, and you see that. And, and you know, we’re very popular. And you know, a lot of people would like me to [seek a third term].
As this week got underway, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared on Fox News and endorsed Trump’s line, arguing that the American people “love the job this president is doing.”....
By any objective measure,
Trump simply isn’t especially popular right now. He can either a) not care; or b) take steps to improve his standing. Instead, the president is choosing to c) make stuff up, which probably won’t help.
As for why you should care about the polls measuring the popularity of an incumbent who can’t run again,
it’s worth re-emphasizing that the White House needs people to believe this weird lie. As we’ve discussed, members of Congress — who, unlike the incumbent president, have to worry about re-election — care a great deal about the prevailing political winds.
If the public really were rallying behind Trump and he really did enjoy 70% support, Republican lawmakers might be that much more inclined to follow his lead, while Democratic lawmakers in competitive districts would be that much less inclined to put up a fight against the White House agenda.
But with Americans expressing their dissatisfaction with Trump, it effectively creates a permission structure for Congress to defy the president’s wishes. In other words, the more voters turn against Trump, the harder it becomes for him to get his way, and the greater his need to make up approval ratings that don’t exist, hoping people will fall for the transparent con.
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