Michigan Voters Lose Confidence In President Trump: Poll

A new poll shows that President Donald Trump, the first Republican to carry Michigan since 1988, is losing support in the battleground state that helped seal his Electoral College win in the 2016 presidential election. The poll of 600 likely Michigan voters conducted May 20-24 by EPIC-MRA of Lansing shows a 5 percent increase in both the number of Michiganders who believe the United States is headed in the wrong direction and who negatively view Trump’s job performance.

Trump received a 37 percent favorability rating in the poll, compared with 56 percent of Michiganders who view former President Barack Obama favorably. In February, the same poll gave Trump a 38 percent favorability rating, compared to a 59 percent favorability rating for Obama.

Michiganders appear to be losing confidence in the job Trump is doing. In the new poll, 61 percent of those polled gave him a negative rating, up 5 points from February. Among Republicans, 67 percent gave him positive job ratings, compared with 80 percent from February. (For more local news, click here to sign up for real-time news alerts and newsletters from Detroit Patch, click here to find your local Michigan Patch. Also, follow us on Facebook, and if you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

Only 12 percent of those polled gave the president a positive favorability rating, compared with 18 percent in February. The percentage of those who think the United States is headed in the “right direction” dropped to 31 percent, from 35 percent in February.

“I think the (response on) direction of the country and the view of President Trump’s performance in office are kind of going hand in hand,” EPIC-MRA pollster Bernie Porn told the Detroit Free Press, which commissioned the poll.

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