The 4 most remarkably awful poll numbers for Donald Trump this week

[Wingnut]

By Aaron Blake August 4 at 10:18 AM
 

Donald Trump likes to talk about the polls. Usually. They aren't giving him anything good to say this week. As of Thursday morning, he hadn't tweeted one out in nearly three days.

As our own Philip Bump reported, national polls now show Trump trailing by as much as 10 points, and swing state polls released late Wednesday and early Thursday paint an equally bleak picture in states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Hampshire.

Part of the reason for the bad polls could be a lingering bump for Hillary Clinton from last week's Democratic National Convention. But it's hard to overstate just how awful some of the new poll numbers are for Trump.

To wit, here are four of them:

1. Just 15 percent say he’s “very qualified” to be president

This has long been an area in which Trump has struggled, but he’s now struggling more than ever and moving in the wrong direction. The new Fox News poll released late Wednesday shows just 43 percent of Americans think Trump is qualified to be president. That's not ideal, but perhaps he could bump that up to 50 percent eventually.

But then you drill down and see that just 15 percent – only about 1 in 6 Americans – say Trump is “very qualified” to hold that job. That's the worst that number has been for Trump in any Fox News poll this campaign — down from 17 percent in June and 19 percent in August.

These numbers are even worse when you consider how strong Clinton is on this measure. The same poll shows about two-thirds of Americans — 65 percent — say she’s qualified to be president, and 40 percent see her as “very qualified.”

So the number of Americans who see her as "very qualified" (40 percent) is close to the number who view Trump as qualified in any way (43 percent).

2. Seven in 10 say they wouldn’t be “proud” to have him as president

This is from the CNN poll released earlier this week. It asked people whether the following statement applied to them when it comes to Trump: "Someone you would be proud to have as president."

A whopping 69 percent of Americans said they would not be proud to have Trump as president; just 30 percent would be. In other words, there are people who are voting for Trump — at least about 1 in 10 Americans — who nonetheless say they wouldn't be proud to have him as president.

About 7 in 10 wouldn't be "proud" of Trump presidency

Trump needs to get around 50 percent of the vote, though. And because right now just 30 percent would be proud to have him as president, that means he would need to get about 20 percent of those Americans who wouldn’t be proud to have him as president — 1 in 5 — to vote for him anyway. That's probably a tougher crowd to win over.

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But getting from 40 percent to 47, 48, 49 percent — the vote total Trump will likely need — means persuading lots of people who wouldn’t be proud of or confident in a Trump presidency to vote for him.

That's a pitch Clinton won't have to make.

Reading between the lines of nearly every article published the last few days, it's clear that Trump has already lost.

[EC]

Reading between the lines of nearly every article published the last few days, it's clear that Trump has already lost.

Even discounting 50% as the usual media attempts to set the agenda - pretty much.

[Wingnut]

Reading between the lines of nearly every article published the last few days, it's clear that Trump has already lost.

His poll numbers slipping faster than poop thu a goose.

[NavyCanDo]

One thing I noticed. Trumps hardcore supporters on TBR have stopped posting polls and counter polls.  They can't find anything credible that says anything different other than Trump is dropping.   The only thing that may stop the drop because it has happened before is another terrorist attack on our soil, and I pray that doesn't happen.