Why Republicans Are Finally Turning on Trump
After the polls closed in Georgia last Tuesday, the president’s loyalists lost their hammerlock on the party.
End of an era.
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Republicans have broken with President Donald Trump in the last several days, as Jonathan Chait discusses in an excellent New York magazine column, more than they have since before he was elected. Elite Republican criticism of Trump has even had the effect of dragging down his approval ratings, perhaps dramatically. FiveThirtyEight estimates that he’s down to 40.7% approval, but it sure appears that their methods are producing a polling average that’s lagging behind the data, given that almost every poll in the last week has him below 40%, and some of them quite a bit lower. We’ll see when more numbers come in, but it certainly looks possible that he’ll sink into the mid-30s.