There are power couples, then there’s Donald and Melania Trump. an influence couple doesn’t always work together. Instead, they shine at various things, with similarly high levels of success. So congrats to the outgoing President and his wife: Before they both snub the incoming Bidens, they will leave safe within the knowledge that he leaves office concomitantly with his lowest consent rating yet, while she departs with the worst final popularity in First Lady history.
First, The Donald. Gallup, one among the nation’s most trusted sources of opinion polling, revealed that a poll conducted between January 4 and therefore the 15th — i.e., during the failed MAGA coup and its aftermath — had him getting an approval rating of only 34%. it's indeed the worst evaluation of his entire presidency.
His average consent rating wasn’t much better: only 41%. He never, over four years, cracked over 50%, though he came close: His highest number was 49%. As for its previous low, was 35%, within the fall of 2017, soon after the tragic events in Charlottesville, Virginia, whose perpetrators he did not sufficiently condemn. Through it all, Republicans had his back: There was a record 81-percentage-point average between them and Democratic voters — a whipping 11 points wider than the previous record.
As for Melania, who launched an anti-bullying program called #BeBest that didn’t quite gibe together with her husband’s antics, a CNN/SSRS poll had 47% saying that they had an unfavorable opinion of the soon-to-be-ex-FLOTUS, with only 42% saying their view was favorable. She’s never been remotely as divisive a figure as her spouse; her most leading came in May of 2018 when she peaked at 57%.
For some contests, before Melania, the typical First Lady’s final popularity was 71%, and therefore the average unfavorable rating was 21%. Indeed, before her, the sole FLOTUS to go away office with a popularity rating below 40% was Hillary Clinton. But maybe Melania’s husband is going to be pleased with her beating Hillary at something.
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