NBC’s most recent national poll shows that former President Donald Trump’s approval rating has dropped to 32% from about 40% around the time of the election. Republicans have moved on from Trump after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and mob scene, not to mention Feb. 10-13 impeachment trial that ended in acquittal. Trump’s hounded by the media, egging him on to talk about another future run for president. NBC’s new poll proves that Trump is done politically, despite making a lot of noise since leaving office Jan. 20. Trump’s unfavorable rating is now at 55%, suggesting he should go quietly into the night while the Republican Party figures out what to do next. President Joe Biden, 78, who beat Trump Nov. 3 by over 5 million popular votes, has a favorability rating of 50%, with only 36% viewing him as unfavorable, far more reasonable numbers for any viable politician.
Trump’s reelection campaign crumbled under the weight of the Covid-19 crisis, that seemed to get worse by the day, something Democrats capitalized on during 2020. Whatever toll the pandemic took on the economy, Trump’s communication team, led by 32-year-old Hope Hicks, was overmatched by Democrats who made mincemeat out of all his accomplishments. Trump spent four years defending himself against fake accusations of Russian collusion, all conveniently set up by former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Trump 2016 rival. Democrat’s used Hillary’s paid opposition research to accuse Trump of Russian collusion. Whatever the truth, it took a toll on Trump’s approval ratings that kept sinking over his four years in office. By the time he left, his approval rating was abysmal, only getting worse by the day as the U.S. media continued their death by a thousand cuts.
Today’s NBC poll shows, beyond any doubt, that Republicans, Democrats and independents want no part of a second act for Trump, including another run for president. Whether he’s still the most viable candidate in the GOP, that doesn’t say very much about the future of GOP leadership. When you look at Biden’s only 50% approval rating, he’s not fooling anyone, making blunder-after-blunder in U.S. foreign policy. Never before after only 100 days have thing headed south so quickly. Biden has insulted Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, telling ABC’s George Stephaopoulos March 16 that Putin was a “soulless killer.” When it came to Xi, Biden accused the Chinese Communist Party of committing genocide on Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang province. Biden’s done so much damage to U.S. national security, he’s practically started a new war.
Trump presided over one on the most disruptive stretches of recent U.S. history, watching everything that he worked for over four years crumble before his eyes. He had everyone in the vast U.S. media and political establishment jumping on his back. Hope Hicks did virtually nothing to combat the media narrative that blamed Trump for the deadly coronavirus, despite the fact that China was clearly at fault. Biden and his running mate Vice President Kamala Harris thought nothing of denigrating vaccines under development, telling voters not to trust any vaccines developed on Trump’s watch. Once Trump lost the election, Biden and Harris were all in on the vaccines, giving Trump zero credit for pulling off an unprecedented feat of getting the world’s biggest vaccine makers to step up and deliver Covid-19 vaccines.
Republican leadership in the House and Senate must step up and inform the Trump organization that he will not be representing the GOP in 2024. While Biden isn’t likely to be the Democrat nominee, no one thinks that Trump can resurrect the GOP after its abysmal loss Nov. 3. Whether there was voting fraud or not, the NBC’s poll shows that Democrats, Republicans and independents all hold Trump responsible for losing the election. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) needs to stop pandering to Trump, visiting Mar –A-Lago, focusing on what he can do to win more GOP seats in the 2022 midterm election. Going back to Trump only makes the GOP look like it has no real future plan. Trump abysmal approval rating shows that a mixed bag of voters don’t see him as a viable candidate now or in the future. Republicans must pick some new leaders and run with them.
Since Trump’s defeat Nov. 3, the mainstream press has done everything possible to destroy the Republican Party. Ignoring Biden’s embarrassing foreign policy failures, the media continues to cover up for Democrats, no matter how bad things get. If Republicans have any chance to retake the Senate and House in 2022, it will because Wall Street has sold off, not buying Biden’s tax hikes and economic proposals. If the economy heads south, Biden could catch the blame, knowing that he’s really not playing with a full deck. Everyone can see-and-hear Biden with their own eyes-and-ears. They know he can’t really deviate from his teleprompter without exposing his cognitive decline. Judging by all the tax hike proposals, Wall Street’s going to rebel sometime soon, with what looks like a bull market evaporating. When that happens, Republicans will get a shot at salvation, just not with Trump.
