Don stinks, but Chuck’s worse: poll

Voters overwhelmingly disapprove of President Trump, according to a national poll, giving him low marks for honesty, leadership skills and empathy for the average American.

But New York Sen. Chuck Schumer scored worse with a measly 26% approval rating, a Quinnipiac Uninversity survey released Tuesday found.

Though bad — 55% give the Commander in Chief the thumbs down — the President's disapproval rating has held relatively constant through the shutdown.

Two to one, voters found the President to be dishonest with poor leadership skills. More than half the people responding believe that he does not care about Joe Taxpayer.

The economy seems to be the one thing buoying the public's shaky opinion of Trump, a Republican. Sixty-four percent of Americans who were asked rated the economy as good and 40% said that his policies had something to do with that.

“Pummeled by horrid numbers on character traits, President Trump gets a break-even on his strongest suit, the economy,” Tim Malloy, Quinnipiac assistant director said.

Although a third of the people polled hadn't formed an opinion of Schumer, 40% that had didn't like what they knew. And voters opinions have gotten worse since last February when only 31% of voters didn't like the New York Democrat.

Nearly half of the people asked didn't like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) or Senate leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) either.

On Monday a different Quinnipiac Uninversity poll found that American voters overwhelmingly fault Trump and his Republican allies in Congress for the longest government shutdown in U.S. history and dismissed the notion that a border wall is crucial to national security.

The survey found that 63% of voters oppose Trump's tactic of keeping the government closed in an attempt to strongarm Congress into funding the construction of a behemoth barrier on the Mexican border. Only 32% support the strategy, which is forcing some 800,000 federal employees to work without pay or not work at all.