Trump Hasn't Been This Unpopular Since He Announced His First Presidential Run

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The last time that Donald Trump was as unpopular as he is today is when he first announced that he was running for President in 2015. The reason that particular date is important is because people had no idea what kind of candidate - let alone president - Trump would be. But now that they've gotten to know him, they can't stand what they see, and that means his third run could already be doomed. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Donald Trump's poll numbers continue to just get worse and worse. And I gotta tell you, I'm loving every second of it. But as it stands right now today, Donald Trump has not been more unpopular than he is right this second than when he first announced his presidential run in 2015. When he came down that escalator, which might be the most American thing ever announced, he was running for president. At that moment, Donald Trump was super unpopular, but then things rebounded. He started doing well in the debates. He did well in the early primaries. Went on to kind of sweep the whole thing. His approval rating went up, although it was still not great in uh, 2016, and then it just kind of went to hell from there until now when it finally bottomed back out to the lowest it's ever been. Not only that his approval rating within the Republican party is the lowest it has ever been. Here's the numbers. Right now, only 31% of registered voters have a favorable view of Donald Trump. So less than a third of the country views him favorably. He has around a 70% favorability rating within the Republican party, which is his lowest since 2016.

So he's got less than a third of the, uh, general public registered voters at large and a little over two thirds of the Republican Party itself. Those are numbers that tell you you cannot win a general election. Not just that you're gonna struggle, but that you can't win. But the reason I think it's important to look at those early numbers, right, the 2015 numbers, is because when he came out and he was super unpopular, he was unpopular for different reasons, he was unpopular because most people at the time, myself included, viewed this as a little bitty vanity project. He was gonna run for president for a couple months. Oh, he was gonna do maybe a debate or two, and then he was gonna leave, right? We all kind of thought, yeah, this is stupid. He's an idiot. Whatever. We didn't know what kind of leader he would be because we didn't have to think about it because none of us thought it was ever gonna happen. But then he won, and at that point people got to see what kind of leader he was gonna be. People got to see the corruption. We heard from more than 20 different women who claimed that he had, uh, in one way or another, either assaulted or harassed them. We heard the Access Hollywood tape, and all of this was after that historically low approval rating. So we already didn't like him before, but then

We found out who he is. And the more we learned over these last six years, the worse his behavior became. His numbers dropped back down, but this time they dropped back down for good reason. Not saying it wasn't good reason to begin with, but I'm saying that nobody knew who he was or what he would be as president. We knew who he was, but you know what I'm saying? We didn't know who he would be back then. Now we do. And now everybody's looking at this, most of the country saying, hell no, we're not going back to that. And as I said, that's not just bad news for his campaign. It's effectively a death sentence for the campaign.