A new Gallup poll shows President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign is going well.
The poll, conducted via telephone survey during the month of February, showed that among voting Americans, Republicans have a higher approval rating than Democrats.
The GOP’s approval rating among voters is 40 percent. Democrats earned just a 35 percent approval rating.
The poll shows that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. and liberal lawmakers did themselves a disservice by pursuing President Donald Trump’s impeachment.
And the survey also speaks volumes about the upcoming 2020 general election. The responses could serve as a barometer for American voters in November, which is bad news for former Vice President Joe Biden (who, barring a catastrophic comeback, looks poised to be the Democratic nominee).
Satisfied with the job Republicans are doing in Congress, that approval could easily translate into votes for Trump in November.
When comparing this recent poll with a similar Gallup poll conducted in October 2019 — shortly after impeachment proceedings began — the Republican approval jumped six-point.
During the same time, Democrats’ approval rating has dropped three points since the Senate acquitted Trump.
Perhaps more importantly, the Democrats’ disapproval has increased five points to 62 percent, compared to 57 percent in October when the prior poll had been taken.
This is noteworthy.
Gallup’s Megan Brenan, in a post accompanying the poll, wrote that Democrats generally fare better than Republicans as it pertains to job approval rating.
“The average approval rating since 1999,” Brenan wrote, “when Gallup began periodically tracking both, is 41% for the Democrats in Congress and 35% for the Republicans in Congress.”
Digging a little deeper, the numbers show that an increasing number of conservative voters approve of congressional Republicans’ job performance. Their overall approval rocketed up 13 percentage points since October.
Not so passionate on the other side.
The Democrats surveyed didn’t approve of the congressional Democrats’ job performance any more or less compared to October 2019.
That translates to enthusiasm among conservative voters, and pessimism among liberals.
But not only did the GOP get a boost in nods of approval — so did an unlikely individual player for his impeachment defense efforts: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Love him or hate him, his favorability percentage rose by six points at the end of impeachment.
Perhaps the statistic is proof that he’s earned some increased respect for holding the line against impeachment-happy Democrats.
The Horn editorial team