country that disapproves of president trump after one year; there any way that number changes? are these shows part of the solidification of his disapproval numbers? is there any way he can regain ground if every single night colbert, kimmel, seth meyers are making fun of him. this guy is the enemy and he s a baffoon and they are not going to back off. maybe i m wrong, but john oliver made a name for himself. and then there was a fade. is that because the daily bec e became is this such a fast cycle? absolutely. john oliver did win an emmy. he hasn t totally faded. he does it only once a week. you have to choose your battles differently. they go after the news. colbert said they change their show on the fly so often because
that the president s approval, disapproval numbers were 48/48. so it used to be 64. you know? now it s kind of 48. so that s not so good. but that, you know, alabama once was on fire with a kind of i think beautiful, modern ascendant conservatism, and sometimes things turn into a racket. i think in the case of roy moore, there was a bad candidate who seemed not who was kind of easily detected by a number of people to seem not essentially well-meaning, and then he is charged with these bad crimes having to do with teenage girls. so i don t know. i guess i thought alabama, the outcome in alabama had to do with a return or a reassertion
unemotional speech, losing the primary probably saved his life. there is something more important than politics. bret: lindsey graham tweeted when it comes to alabama politics, steve bannon should have followed president trump, his lead in supporting luther strange. trump s instinct on the alabama race proved to be correct. lindsey graham is working hard to butter up the president these days and it s getting noticed. and i everyone can read through dumping on the candidacy of roy moore. obviously, i agree he was completely toxic and it s easy. there are a lot of people who are republicans in alabama who couldn t vote or they did write-ins. republicans eyes spoke to are the most nervous about the 48-48 numbers. the disapproval numbers should be higher than that.
historically low job approval numbers. 38% approve of the job he s doing as president. 46% say they re going to vote for more democrats next year. for a check and balance there. so susan, are these numbers going to get worse or better if the gop passes its tax plan that involves possibly cutting 401(k) benefits? i don t all right, two separate questions. i don t i think it will help republicans say they have achieved something. the 401 tax break is a whole separate issue. at the end of the day, we may see a little tweak at it, but if the republicans basically say they re going to pass some form of middle class tax reform, do a millionaire s tax or something similar, and get the corporate rate down, that will help them. the president s disapproval numbers are based much more on more than just a policy than a single policy, but the republicans definitely need a win in order to keep themselves safe in 2018. speaking of wins, howard,
down even further. yeah. ron, the. president s disapproval numbers climbed, including 49% to disapproved strongly. both new highs in the fox news polling. what you think is behind these numbers. i agree with most of what salena said. most of it is the voters in the middle, voters who gave trump a shot, see him busy attacking people on twitter, attacking gold gol gold-star widows, attacking people in puerto rico, just attack, attack, attack, and not doing what he said he d do, which is get things done, get infrastructure projects under way, create manufacturing jobs, you know, really deliver on that stuff. and so i think when you have a president who is busy, seems like he s super distracted with these petty feuds with people, he s acting just mean and unpleasant. think that turns people off. that s not what they elected him to do. i think maybe some of his core supporters love the fighting turf, the fighting nature of it