disapproval numbers, but can democrats generate enthusiasm among voters who are not typical midterm election voters to turn out in droves this time around? and that s where you get the polling not exactly right, because the universes aren t exactly right. i want to dig into this discussion of the leadership of donald trump along with the concerns about it. you have a hurricane heading towards the east coast right now. a new concern about the president s environmental policy which is also important. take a look, trump late today claimed his own response to the crisis in puerto rico he said was positive. of course that hurricane maria left almost 3,000 americans dead. i think the puerto rico was an incredible unsung success. texas we have been given a-pluses for. florida we ve been given a-pluses for. i think in a certain way the best job we did was puerto rico. and while trump is saying that in public, i want to report the new york times had a big
statement. there was a conversation that had to happen about trade. the explanation is not believable but that s probably better if you re sarah sanders than well he was in a terrible mood and he got back into the car, which they ll never say. let me tell you other reasons he could be in a terrible mood. the abc news/ washington post poll with his record high disapproval numbers, we saw the generic ballot test for congress. republicans are trailing democrats by 14 points in that poll. that s a big gap and a growing gap in the abc news poll. usa today and suffolk came out with a poll that shows that gap at 11 point this is morning. and maggie, in your own reporting, you ve heard from people close to the president that he is feeling cornered, all of this working together to make him feel cornered. i think it s sinking in for him. donald trump is very good at the sun is always shining in trumpland, as we know from his drips descriptions of how he views the world and reality and how
a new poll shows president trump s disapproval numbers have hit a new high and that americans are divided on impeachment with a plurality seeming to favor it. se cupp, host of se cupp unfiltered joins us for the bottom line. the new number from abc news and the washington post on the approval number is fascinating. they have the president s approval at 36%, the disapproval at 60% which is a high in their poll and you can see the movement from july. when you re talking about approval numbers i like the totality of different polls out there. and what have you crunched? this is a less favorable view of the president than you will see in almost any other poll. the question is this a trend post-cohen, paul manafort and everything else news? it s been a bad august. i don t have to tell you guys,
you know this, august is usually a very slow month for news. not so for the president and this white house and i wondered as the news started trickling out, michael cohen, indictments, corruption in congress and then all of the immunities if this was going to be a tipping point not for the american people, for voters, because his support among voters has remained the same. the same go up of people keep liking him, the same group of people keep disliking him, but for congressional republicans and they are set to come back from recess and we will see whether this bad news and new disapproval numbers will be a tipping point for republicans in congress and whether or not they start to hold this administration to more account than they had been in the past. i will note one number we don t have the graphic for is
his party has changed the topic. it s changed the subject from the investigation itself to try to investigate the investigators and that has contributed to this ka public opinion where republicans disapprove of bob mueller. i think his disapproval numbers have gone up by double digits. i think democrats are very much behind it. i think independents support this for the most part. when independents, if they ever shifted the other way, this investigation would end in a hurry. and the bottom line is voters are not looking at this as a top issue for them in the elections. it just doesn t rank. it doesn t affect their daily life. they tune out the day-to-day. i think once this investigation concludes, whatever the outcome is, the report, the indictment, voters minds may change then. you know who is following this? president trump has found time between nato, the uk and preparing for putin. he had a tweet today about lisa page, who at first wasn t going to comply with the subpoena and