Byron York: Polls May Not Mean for Trump What They Meant in the Past

‘We have to look at these numbers perhaps in a different way with Donald Trump than we used to look at it’

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YORK: "A couple of weeks into his presidency, if you look at the RealClear Politics average of polls, Donald Trump hit 46 percent job approval. That's the highest he has ever been. It's now 38.7 and I think a lot of political observers believe that in that 38.7 is the President's base. On the other hand, we have to look at these numbers perhaps in a different way with Donald Trump than we used to look at it because remember, on Election Day Donald Trump was elected president with a 60 percent job disapproval rating. So the polls may not mean for this president what they have meant in the past, but he is absolutely right that he has had big, enthusiastic campaign-style crowds in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania and elsewhere in the past few weeks."

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