According to a recent survey from Public Policy Polling, President Donald Trump and Senator Thom Tillis continue to lose support in North Carolina. This is not necessarily a new trend, as past polls from the company have also shown Republican support waning in the state.
Trump’s disapproval rate has skyrocketed to 51% after winning the state by 4 points in 2016. Voters are also evenly split at 48% on the subject of impeachment as the House of Representatives continues their inquiry.
Tom Jensen, director of Public Policy Polling, spoke with WCHL’s Aaron Keck about what the results mean. He said Trump’s lower approval rating is consistent across most states his company has polled and point to the 2020 election being a ruling on Trump, no matter the eventual Democratic candidate.
“I think that it is going to come down to a referendum on [Trump],” Jensen said. “I think a lot of these Democrats as they become better known, like Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris, may start polling a little bit better with direct polling matchups with Trump given his unpopularity.”
Polled against the five leading Democratic candidates, Trump trails Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, while he is tied with Harris and has a slight lead over Buttigieg. This is especially significant considering the only Democrat to win the state since 1980 was former president Barack Obama.
The poll showed Senator Thom Tillis is even less popular with North Carolina voters, with his approval rating dropping to 22% and his disapproval rating at 44%. Even among Republicans, only 40% of voters approve of Tillis.
Jensen said what points to trouble for Tillis in his senate race is his low approval rating among Republican voters, which is 40 percent. He says these numbers display why primary challengers to Tillis have received such early support.
“So, he’s sort of weak even within his own party and certainly not very strong support from either Democrat [voters] or Independents,” said Jensen.
Voters in the state also continue to show strong support across the aisle for nonpartisan redistricting along with Medicaid expansion.
North Carolina holds its primaries on March 3.
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Of course your site, in Chapel Hill, is obviously Leftist. My husband was appalled that our daughter was accepted and received a scholarship at UNC Chapel Hill. He begged her to find another school; he never visited her at campus. I used to think his objection was because he was a Wake Forest graduate, actually quarterback of WF football team, and I thought his views were result of sports rivalry. He later revealed to me that UNC had become one of most Liberal universities in country, and he objected to daughter being exposed to unpatriotic, anti Christian, anti semitic, anti US , global government . I was not into politics then but I am now. Used to be a Democrat but changed with Reagan.
I graduated from Wilmington College 1966. No nutty ideology driven professors: just taught the subjects. I went back in 90’s in Masters program at same college that had become UNC Wilmington. Graduated 4.0 in spite of the professors refusing to call on me in class once they detected I might be a Conservative. The professors only interacted with 20 somethings. Marxism constantly brandished by lots of professors. I felt sorry that my alma mater had been so taken over by people who did not love our country, our Constitution, and wanted to change detrimentally the greatest country God ever created on this planet. Of course there is evil here, as everywhere in world, but I realize now most of what’s wrong with country comes from Washington. Lying politicians, TERM LIMITS
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