Robert Jones, founder and CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), said on Thursday that Republicans should be concerned not only about President Trump’s favorability ratings ahead of November’s midterms, but about his unfavorability ratings as well.
“It’s just not that he’s underwater on the favorable side, but if you look at the very unfavorable piece of those numbers, they are unprecedented,” Jones said to Hill.TV’s Joe Concha on “What America’s Thinking.”
“The very unfavorable numbers among African-Americans, among white college-educated women, they’re just off the charts. We have no historical precedent for the very unfavorable piece of this, and I think that’s a piece they really ought to be worried about,” he continued.
Trump’s favorability ratings have garnered quite a bit of attention as the midterms loom.
The RealClearPolitics poll average had the president’s favorability rating at 41.2 percent on Thursday.
His unfavorable rating was much higher at 54.5 percent, according to RCP.
A recent CNN/SSRS poll found that while only 29 percent of women said they approved of Trump, 65 percent said they disapproved of his job as president.
Trump also has high disapproval ratings among minority voters, a voting block that could hurt Republicans in the midterms.
Nineteen percent of non-white respondents said they approved of the president, while 72 percent said they disapproved of him.
— Julia Manchester
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