busy legislative agenda. this president ends the summer setting records with his dismally low approval ratings, including the lowest park ever for a president in his first year. by the end of last month, the president was at 34%. to help with the summer of trump in perspective, i m joined by harry enton, senior political writer for 358, tara dowdel, and jess mcintosh, a former adviser for the clinton campaign and current executive editor of share blue. good to have you here. let s start with a snapshot of where the president is political my. maybe i ll start with you, because you do a lot of analysis of polling. how would you characterize where the president is politically? lowest i ve ever seen. those numbers tell the story, don t they? look at the president s disapproval rating. already in the high 50s. his net approval rating, more than 20 percentage points of the country disapprove than approve of the president. we ve simply never seen that. i guess if we had polling back with wa
welcome back to morning joe. it is monday, april 24th. we have switched up our circus leaders, mark halperin and his executive producer, mark mckinnon, richard haass, and former congressman harold ford jr. as he near his first 100 days, his approval ratings are near record lows. in the new wall street journal/nbc news poll, 40% approve, 54% disapprove. it s the worst for any president in the 25 years of the poll actually existing at this point of any presidency. still the lowest recording of a presidency in this date in polling that dates back to eisenhower. among sub groups, the president has an 85% net approval rating among his own voters and 69%
on figure out are people going to be able to get health care coverage? people with preexisting conditions and pple who move from one job to the other. it s not a moral issue but economic issue because you want people to switch jobs and move around to where the jobs are and that requires some way of allowing people to get health care and he just cannot be cavalier about it the way he has been if 18 million people end up uninsured because of him, that will be the big disaster more than tweeting about merle streep. in a moment, we are speaking live with white house press secretary josh earnest and president obama is leaving off with a 16% net approval rating. in a poll 56% approve of his performance as president and 40% disapprove.
news/wall street journal poll finds 45% of respondents believe the affordable care act is a good idea. and that is the highest percentage since the poll began to ask that question in april 2009. it is also the first time since the law s passage in 2010 where more americans think it s a good idea than a bad idea. and alex, as he prepares for the final news conference, president obama is leaving office with a 16-point net approval rating with 56% approving of his performance as president and 40% disapproving. and as for his legacy, 55% of respondents believe he will be among the very best if not the better recent presidents while 44% say he ll be viewed as not the best in modern history. 53% say we are better than eight years ago, 44% say not as good or worse. president bill clinton left office with a 72% approval
anti-abortion groups this year, this he keep finding over and over and over again in blue states and red states, this keep finding planned parenthood isn t doing anything wrong. this is the health care provider of choice for millions of american women. the most recent polling on the subject of planned parenthood shows that americans have a higher who opinion of planned parenthood than, well, than any other person or political entity that nbc or the wall street journal could think to poll on. look at this from the latest nbc poll that came out this weekend. donald trump was the most disliked, a net 33% net approval rating. republican party was the second worse off, are 16%, jeb bush was the third worst off, net negative 15% for him you sort of move up the totem pole in terms of negative versus positive feelings. above jeb bush is hillary clinton and above that is the black lives matter moment, above that the democratic party. above that president obama. above that two republican presi