U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to escort a news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, July 14, 2020.
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President Donald Trump’s good rating on his handling of the U.S. economy has dropped dramatically in the last month, according to a new poll.
The poll, from Quinnipiac University, appears that only 44% of people approve of the way Trump is handling the U.S. economy, compared with 52% from the month anterior to.
Trump’s stewardship of the economy had been one of the only bright spots for the president in recent polls. The dramatic drop is an vaticinal sign for his reelection prospects.
The results come just after the release of what Trump called a “spectacular” problems report, which revealed that the economy in June added 4.8 million jobs, a figure that surpassed blueprints.
But his rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, has suggested that the jobs report wasn’t reflective of the reality for uncountable Americans.
“Make no mistake, we’re still in a deep, deep job hole because Donald Trump has so badly bungled the answer to coronavirus,” the presumptive Democratic nominee said. “For everyone whose job hasn’t come back, for everyone who doesn’t own inventory, who can’t get a sweetheart loan through connections, does this feel like a victory?”
Meanwhile, 50% of those studied say that Biden would do a better job handling the economy than Trump, while 45% said he would not. The ballot was conducted between July 9 and July 13. There were 1,273 respondents, and the poll had a margin of error of +/- 2.8 interest points.
New polling released Wednesday by CNBC/Change Research found that only 46% of likely voters approved of Trump’s manage of the economy, versus 54% who disapproved.
The poll also showed a dramatic shift over the past two weeks in how disinterested voters grade the president’s handling of the economy. In late June, the same poll showed Trump’s economic concurrence ratings underwater by eight points with independents. Two weeks later, that deficit had swelled to a 28-point deficiency, with 64% of independents telling pollsters they disapprove of how Trump is handling the economy.
Overall, Biden is peerless the president by a wide margin nationally and in critical swing states in most recent polls as the campaign season primes into its final phase.
The RealClearPolitics national polling average shows Biden, with 48.3% voter assist, substantially ahead of Trump, with 40.2% support.
Trump also received dismal marks for his handling of the U.S. return to the coronavirus. The Quinnipiac poll shows that only 35% of voters approved of his response, compared with 62% who implied disapproval. This rating is the lowest he’s received since March, according to a press release from Quinnipiac University.
Profuse than half the respondents, or 59%, said Biden would handle the pandemic well, compared with 35% who state the opposite.
The coronavirus has roiled markets, forcing thousands of small businesses nationwide to shutter in an effort to limit swing and contain the virus.
The coronavirus outbreak has spread worldwide, with more than 13.3 million confirmed turns out thats and over 578,600 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The U.S. has had at least 3.4 million actions and 136,400 deaths, according to the latest tallies.
— CNBC’s Christina Wilkie contributed to this report.