TRUMP DIVIDE:
Dems, GOPers in startling split on Trump
91% GOP LOVES 92% DEMS HATE
Divided we stand. Americans are living in separate worlds, a new poll shows, with Republicans and Democrats holding radically different views of President Trump and his policies.
Not even three weeks into the new administration, the partisan divide covers everything from national security to ObamaCare to voters’ views of Trump himself.
Trump has a 91 percent favorability rating among Republicans but only 3 percent among Democrats, 92 percent of whom give him thumbs down, according to a Quinnipiac University poll.
Veteran political analyst Frank Luntz said the findings show voters on both sides are embedded in their positions as never before.
“It’s gotten much worse. There are no conservative Democrats or liberal Republicans anymore. We’ve chosen our camps. We don’t go back and forth,” Luntz said.
“We don’t listen to each other anymore. We don’t care what others think. We only want them to hear what we think.”
Among other stark differences rveealed by the poll:
The Keystone Pipeline — 80 percent of Republicans favor it and 81 percent of Democrats don’t.
The Mexico-border wall — 81 percent of GOPers favor building it, 95 percent of Dems oppose it.
ObamaCare — 87 percent of Republicans favor a replacement, 86 percent of Democrats do not.
Travel ban — 88 percent of Republicans are for the temporary restrictions on travelers from seven countries while 88 percent of Democrats opposite it.
The striking gap extends to Trump’s personal attributes:
87 percent of Republicans say Trump is honest, as opposed to 5 percent of Democrats.
In terms of making the country safer, 87 percent of GOPers said Trump’s policies would accomplish that goal. Only 4 percent of Democrats agreed.
When voters were asked if Trump “cares about average Americans or not,” the results were virtually a partisan mirror image — 93 percent of Republicans said he does and 91 percent of Democrats said he doesn’t.
There’s also a significant gender and racial gap when it comes to Trump, who was criticized on the campaign trail for his comments and treatment of women.
Fifty-one percent of men gave Trump thumbs up, compared with just 36 percent of women.
While 51 percent of white voters view him favorably, 73 percent of nonwhite voters don’t.
Trump has repeatedly questioned polls that cast him in a negative light. But on Wednesday, he touted three that offered support for his policies.
He crowed about an Emerson Poll that found 49 percent of registered voters see his administration as truthful, while only 39 percent say the media is truthful.
“Trump administration seen as more truthful than news media,” he tweeted.
He also noted a Politico/Morning Consult survey that showed 55 percent support his immigration ban, and cited a poll of 10 European countries that found that voters in eight of them supported a halt to immigration from Muslim-majority countries.