Trump disapproval jumps, Newsom and Vance take early 2028 lead in poll

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uga uga Vance in the lead!! damn

Trump's disapproval among Hispanic voters jumped 13% in the space of a month, according to a new Emerson College poll.

Trump disapproval jumps, Newsom and Vance take early 2028 lead in poll
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Trump disapproval jumps, Newsom and Vance take early 2028 lead in poll
Trump's disapproval among Hispanic voters jumped 13% in the space of a month, according to a new Emerson College poll

USA TODAY
Updated Feb. 27, 2026, 6:02 p.m. ET




President Donald Trump's approval rating continues to tank, according to a new Emerson College poll released on Feb. 25.

More than half, or 55%, of Americans surveyed do not approve of the job the president is doing, a four percentage point increase from January, according to the Emerson poll of 1,000 likely voters. The poll was conducted Feb. 21 through Feb. 22, just days before Trump's record-length State of the Union address on Feb. 24.

Meanwhile, 43% of Americans support Trump, the Emerson poll found, the same percentage recorded in the college's January poll. During the State of the Union, Trump boasted that he had inherited "a nation in crisis." He praised his own economic record, taking credit for reducing the prices of Americans' daily essentials, including gas and eggs..................


Emerson's survey this month is also consistent with a string of other polls showing Trump's approval rating plummeting, including recent ones conducted by the Washington Post-ABC News, The New York Times and the Pew Research Center.

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1. I've been saying for nearly a year that Vance will get every trump voter and then some.

All these trump voters that have expressed disapproval has not been disapproval of his racist core policies. In fact, Vance reiterates them with a larger, more grammatically correct vocabulary. He will bring back 90% of trumps voters and gain the rest from "independent moderates" who aren't as vocal about their racism or indifference to it.

Waiting until the midterms is ill advised. It is time to bombard Vance with pressure regarding his part in the coverup and his amped up racism.

Leadership is too fucking sedate.

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3. Vance is the second most hated republican by his own colleagues

Second only to Ted Cruz.

Vance has zero charisma, and I don’t know why you think he will get every Trump voter.

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4. It won't be about charisma. It will be about his slick way of vilifying the opposition and everyone MAGA hates.

The ease with which he lies spews racist acid with even measured tone. And he has Peter Thiel and Palantir which has infected all of our institutions and data. His colleagues hate him because he is where THEY want to be with the backing he has.

It's not about charisma. It's about pushing the right buttons and shutting down opposition. They have all the data and an overwhelming amount of the infrastructure and access control. It's not going to be about politics. This is going to be all about logistics, and the Dems need to suit up and get serious.

[Fiendish Thingy]

5. The midterms will show that personal suffering outweighs hatred of others

Trans rights and immigration will no longer be the powerful wedge issues they have been in the recent past.

Instead, the widespread, universal suffering by all but the wealthiest Americans will unite a large number of Trump voters against Republican candidates.

Housing, healthcare, groceries - those will be the primary focus of voters, along with a widespread rejection of the cruelty and extremism of this administration by nearly something like 3/4 of independent voters and a third of Republican voters, as reported today by a poll from G. Elliot Morris (the guy who took over 538 from corrupt failure Nate Silver after he was fired.

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6. Vance is all behind the religious takeover of America by the Dominionists.

We've only seen a fraction of what they want to accomplish so far. They're pinning hopes on Johnson and Vance - two people whom I consider to be the exact opposite of what "religious" is suppose to mean. For them, christianism is white nationalism and cruelty... period. Minorities and women are to be subjugated and stripped of rights. The pastors will tell them what to do, if their husbands won't. I worry we have a hell of a lot more to fear from christian dominionism than Iranian women fear Islamists. They are two heads of the same evil penny. And the only one who has rights is the male, if his skin color and religion is correct. And therein lies the problem... with all the christian sects, WHO decides "my way is the only way." ALL christianity states that there's is the "One, True Way"... and totally go on to misread the verse that states My Father's House has Many rooms (at least as I was taught it)... and I'm steeped into conservative, evangelical religion as one can be... altho it has been a few years since those "discussions" I had with family members way back when!

If Vance wins, or if Johnson advances or... gods forbid... Cruz gets anywhere near anything related to any REAL power... watch out. The next change is not from Democracy to Authoritarianism. We'll be as theocratic as any other Middle East country.

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2. Neither Newsom or Vance will be their party's nominee in 2028

These silly beauty-pageant-name-recognition polls have zero predictive value.