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Most Americans think their country moves in wrong direction under Trump: Poll

Anti-Trump protestors demonstrate against President Donald Trump in Chattanooga, Tennessee, November 4, 2018. (Photo by AFP)

Most Americans think their nation is moving in the wrong direction under President Donald Trump, a new poll has found.

A mere 28 percent of those who took part in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, which was released Sunday, believed that their country was on the right track while 63 percent thought their country needed to change course.

The percentage of voters who thought the US was on the wrong path hit the highest point under Trump presidency, according to NBC News.

On the other hand those who thought America was on track constitute the smallest fraction of the respondents since President Trump took office.

In response to how they felt about the state of the US, 68 percent of the respondents reacted negatively, using such words as “disaster,” “divided” and “downhill.”

According to the poll, only 17 percent of the respondents had positive answers to give when asked the same question.

President Trump’s job approval rating, however, remained the same from December.

A total of 43 percent of the respondents approved of him on jobs whereas 54 percent disapproved, the pollsters indicated.

Trump's approval rating plummeted to an all-time low as the longest ever government shutdown in American history entered its second month, a Politico/Morning Consult Poll showed on Wednesday.

According to the poll, a total of 57 percent of US voters disapproved of the job President Trump was doing, as opposed to 40 percent approval he received from American voters.

Trump shut down the government on December 22nd, after the Democrat-dominated Congress rejected his request to pass through a $5.7bn bill to build the wall.

Fifty-four percent blamed President Trump for the government shutdown, whereas 35 percent put the blame on Democrats on Capitol Hill, according to the poll.


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