97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every weekday morning, 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck chats with government officials, UNC scholars, business and nonprofit leaders, area musicians, and others in our community as they share their thoughts, their experience, and their expertise on the central issues of today. Click here to listen back to all of Aaron’s conversations – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” at 7:30 a.m. on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.
Every other Monday, Aaron is joined at 8:30 a.m. by Tom Jensen, the director of Public Policy Polling, for a longstanding regular segment called “What We’re Thinking,” looking at recent survey numbers and discussing what they tell us about American public opinion – election-related and otherwise.
This week, Tom discusses a new survey of North Carolinians that shows Thom Tillis with a 25 percent approval rating – caught between Democrats who think he’s too pro-Trump, and Republicans who think he’s not pro-Trump enough. Tillis’ low approval rating doesn’t actually put him at much of a disadvantage when it comes to next year’s U.S. Senate race, since GOP voters will likely support their nominee regardless – but what could hurt Tillis more is the possibility of some Trump supporters not turning out at all, in a race where Trump’s not on the ballot.
Click here for more results from the PPP poll.
Other key findings from the survey: a slight dip in Donald Trump’s approval rating, an even lower approval rating for Elon Musk, and strong support for letting voters make the call in the still-contested State Supreme Court race, where the GOP candidate is trying to get judges to toss out 65,000 votes.
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