WASHINGTON — Recent public opinion polls show President Donald Trump’s approval ratings hovering around 40 percent, a modern low for a new president. But Trump continues to go to great lengths to please that 40 percent or so of his true believers, and many of them say that despite his controversial start, they are pleased with […]
“Honest” and “trustworthy” are not words most Americans would use to describe the two presidential candidates — Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump. In a Gallup poll conducted this week, only 32 percent of Americans would describe Clinton that way, while 36 percent would use that description for Trump. Those numbers changed little from […]
In the U.S. presidential race, a new CNN-ORC poll shows Republican Donald Trump with a two-point (45-43) lead over Democrat Hillary Clinton. Clinton continues to lead in most surveys, but the CNN poll is the latest of several recent national and state polls that indicate the race for the White House is tightening with about […]
A new U.S. political survey shows Texas Senator Ted Cruz, with strong support from evangelical Christians and conservative activists, has surged to the top among Republican presidential candidates in Iowa, the the farm state holding the party’s first 2016 nominating contest. The Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics poll late Saturday said Cruz, who delights in agitating […]