Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

Thursday, September 13, 2018

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 46% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty-two percent (52%) disapprove.

The latest figures include 33% who Strongly Approve of the president is performing and 43% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10. (See trends).

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With the release this week of private text messages showing an active effort by senior federal law enforcement officials to undercut the new Trump administration, Rasmussen Reports asked voters how these rogue agents should be punished, if at all. We’ll tell you what they think at 10:30 today.

As recently as late April, 54% favored the naming of a special prosecutor to investigate the FBI’s actions during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Confidence that Judge Brett Kavanaugh will be the next U.S. Supreme Court justice has jumped following last week’s tempestuous Senate confirmation hearings.

Voters give senators who support Kavanaugh the electoral edge this November.  

Former President Obama is back on the campaign trail, but only 38% say they are more likely to vote for a candidate Obama campaigns for.   Nearly as many (36%) are less likely to do so.

Democrats continue to hold a slight lead on the latest Rasmussen Reports Generic Congressional Ballot.

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Voters feel more strongly than they have in years that a candidate’s political positions carry more weight than how much money he or she has to spend on their campaign.

Twenty-three percent (23%) of Americans are more likely to buy Nike products now that the company has hired former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick as its new spokesman.

But 25% of National Football League fans say they are less likely to follow the league this season if the on-field protests inspired by Kaepernick continue. 

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Some readers wonder how we come up with our job approval ratings for the president since they often don’t show as dramatic a change as some other pollsters do. It depends on how you ask the question and whom you ask.

To get a sense of longer-term job approval trends for the president, Rasmussen Reports compiles our tracking data on a full month-by-month basis.

Rasmussen Reports has been a pioneer in the use of automated telephone polling techniques, but many other firms still utilize their own operator-assisted technology (see methodology).

Daily tracking results are collected via telephone surveys of 500 likely voters per night and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. To reach those who have abandoned traditional landline telephones, Rasmussen Reports uses an online survey tool to interview randomly selected participants from a demographically diverse panel. The margin of sampling error for the full sample of 1,500 Likely Voters is +/- 2.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Results are also compiled on a full-week basis and crosstabs for full-week results are available for Platinum Members.