The number of Michigan residents who have a negative opinion of President Donald Trump's job performance has steadily increased over the past four months according to a statewide poll conducted by Lansing based survey-research firm EPIC-MRA. The results found that 61 percent of Michigan residents polled in the survey aren’t happy with how Trump is doing as President, while 55 percent say the country is headed in the wrong direction. Both are 5 percentage points higher than they were in February when the same poll was conducted.
“Those are very consistent numbers under the leadership of Donald Trump as President. And if in fact those numbers continue, well then I think his trouble will continue as well,” EPIC-MRA President Bernie Porn said.
Porn says Trump's diminishing approval ratings may lead other Republican lawmakers who’ve supported Trump in the past to jump ship.
“There’s a very good possibility that you’ll have marginal members of Congress and members of State Legislatures who are Republicans, who will abandoned him," Porn said. "They have been holding firm and supporting him, up until now, because the high numbers that he is receiving among Republicans, but if that starts to peel away, well, then you could have a whole different story.”
According to poll results, Michiganders don’t have a much better view of how Governor Rick Snyder. 59 percent of voters have a ‘total negative’ view with Snyder's job performance. However Porn says, that’s an improvement since February.
“It’s a long way from having approval, but he has seen at least some improvement, I think because of the positions he has taken, at odds with President Trump on some issues and at odds with his own party and legislature,” he said.
The survey polled 600 Michigan residents who are active and likely November 2018 voters. The poll took place between May 20th-24th.
