Tuesday, July 31, 2018

No, Donald Trump's poll numbers do not beat Lincoln, all other GOP presidents

politifact.


President Donald Trump is known for tooting his own horn. In recent weeks, one of the accomplishments he’s been trumpeting is his standing with Republican voters.
In a July 29 tweet, Trump wrote, "Wow, highest Poll Numbers in the history of the Republican Party. That includes Honest Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan. There must be something wrong, please recheck that poll!"
Our ruling
Trump said, "Wow, highest Poll Numbers in the history of the Republican Party. That includes Honest Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan."
Credit where credit is due: Trump is very popular among Republicans, and at one point, his approval rating within his own party trailed only George W. Bush among postwar Republican presidents.
However, no pre-1936 president served in an era with scientific polling, so Trump’s comparison of himself to Lincoln is spurious. Meanwhile, Trump’s approval rating at the time of the tweet ranked in the middle of the post-World War II Republican presidents, and measured in other ways, his support among Republicans was actually worse than every post-war Republican president except for Gerald Ford.
We rate the statement False.

7 comments:

  1. All these political posts on the blog here, especially about Trump etc., if getting quite silly and a bit much.

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  2. All these political posts on the blog here, especially about Trump etc., is getting quite silly and a bit much.

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  3. SO LISTEN TO "FAKE NEWS"TRUMP AND DONT READ OR LISTEN TO "FAKE NEWS"

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  4. If you want Chochma, learn the Meshech Chochmah

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  5. In Trumpthink the statement is "True."

    I subscribe to Trumpthink. It's more like a habit. I take a toke on my propapipe. It feels good.

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  6. Do I like the lies?

    No. I don't.

    President Clinton took lying to a new level. And Secretary Clinton is no stranger to the lie. Because of the widespread support for the Clintons, their lying became the baseline measure of what is acceptable lying in the service of becoming President of the United States and keeping that job.

    Comes Donald Trump and he wraps the needle around the stop on the Political Lie-o-Meter. And wins the White House in the process.

    I think that's FUNNY.

    And he's holding on to his office by becoming the Fabricator-in-Chief. That's ALSO funny!

    My hope is that he breaks the whole system -- not only draining the swamp, but replacing it with fountains and springs of filtered, purified water. That is, with a government based on integrity.

    But it ain't gonna happen.

    In the next election, the Democratic candidate will run on a platform that open borders and unlimited immigration is going to make America great again. And that's a lie that towers over all of Donald Trump's lies piled one on top of the other.

    Things are just going to get worse in the whopper-verse.

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  7. “No, Donald Trump's poll numbers do not beat Lincoln, all other GOP presidents”
    God bless Donald Trump. He is a modern King Cyrus. See
    https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Cruz-at-CUFI-Summit-Israel-is-our-friend-563794
    “We would be remiss today if we did not at least pause and reflect what a difference a couple of years can make. What a difference Ambassador Nikki Haley makes. What a difference Ambassador David Friedman makes. It was just November and December of 2016, the end of the previous administration, when we saw the United Nations passing Resolution 2334 condemning – with the voice of the international community – condemning Israel as illegal occupiers. Declaring the Jewish quarter of Israel illegally occupied. Declaring the Western Wall illegally occupied. Done with the acquiescence and energetic support of the Obama administration. It was only a year and a half ago, we had the secretary of state, John Kerry, describing Israel as an apartheid state. It was only a couple of years ago that we had members of Congress boycotting Prime Minister Netanyahu as he addressed a joint session of Congress. But oh, how the world has changed.”
    Also see:
    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/22537
    “But if there is a people who love life and hate death, it is the Jewish people, the one nation capable of defeating all this horror. What would have happened if Israel had not stopped the invasion of its border in Gaza the last few months? The answer: What happened that evening in Adam, outside Jerusalem. There are specific culprits for this murder: not only the Palestinian barbarian that killed him, also the Nazi principals of neighboring Ramallah and Gaza who incite to assassinate Jews. And the "civilian countries" which consider the lives of the Israelis reversible, justifying the their blood is being shed, citing reasons, silences, distinctions, moral equivalents.”

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