President Trump’s job approval rating dips as a growing number of Americans harbor doubts about his handling of the coronavirus crisis.
After rising to his highest-ever 47.4 percent rating on April 1, Trump's approval began to fall and stood at 45.2 percent as of Thursday — the same level as early February — in the RealClearPoliticsTrump's messaging strategy has been to portray himself as a wartime president leading the country to victory.
Democrats have run TV ads pummeling Trump for ignoring the early warnings and downplaying the outbreak until mid-March after he initially compared it to the flu and assured the country the virus would"disappear." Biden has faulted his rival's handling of the pandemic,A Biden's rating was 41 percent favorable to 42 percent unfavorable, with 17 percent registering no opinion.
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