Analysis: For Trump, winning isn’t everything. The appearance of winning is.
President Trump pumps his fist during a refueling stop at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage on Feb. 28. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow March 12 at 10:04 AM President Trump offered a neatly encapsulated defense of his presidency when speaking to Breitbart in the Oval Office on Monday.
The scribes from Breitbart appear to have been disinclined to challenge this presentation of Trump's case. But it's a bad case. And this is in a poll that almost always has higher approval numbers for Trump than the RealClearPolitics polling average. Since Feb. 12, by the way, Trump’s average approval has been 49 percent. The 52 percent was an outlier among otherwise unremarkable numbers.
Pew Research Center asked Americans last summer if they approved of Trump and, if so, why. Among those who said they approved of him, 60 percent said it was because of his approach to the job and personality. That was three times the number that cited his policies and values. Sometimes, though, it’s impossible for Trump to preserve the facade. Before the midterm elections, he insisted both that there would be a wave in favor of the Republicans and that his endorsement would carry any Republican across the finish line. Instead, of course, the Republicans got devastated in House elections.
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