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President Donald Trump, who won Michigan in the 2016 campaign by 10,704 votes, seems to be losing some support here.
His approval rating is just below 40 percent among Michigan voters, according to a new poll commissioned by The Detroit News and WDIV Local 4. The poll was conducted Jan 16-19 by Glengariff Group Inc.
The poll found that Trump has the approval of 39.5 percent of 600 likely state voters, while 54 percent disapproved, Michael Gerstein and Jonathan Oosting of the Detroit News report. Women and independent voters are driving much of the dissatisfaction, the poll shows.
The News reports:
About 47 percent of voters said they strongly disapprove of Trump’s job performance, a dissatisfaction driven largely by women, the poll showed. Sixty-six percent of women in Metro Detroit said they strongly disagreed with the president’s performance, and 39 percent of those polled gave Trump an “F.”
“His approval ratings are terrible, it’s that simple,” said Rich Czuba, who conducted the poll. “We are the bellwether state at this point. Michigan is going to reflect what is occurring nationally.”
A majority of 54 percent of those polled said they don’t believe Trump is qualified to be president. It is a little better than the 63 percent of likely Michigan voters who said he was unqualified to be president in a late September 2016 Glengariff poll for The News and WDIV.
