americans. they knew they were going to run a base-centric presidency, but they did believe they had a honeymoon with that republican trump base and they re starting to see some of that erode, in part it s because of this russia delude continues over the administration, in part because of the promises that remain unchecked, like repealing and replacing the affordable care act and the don jr. story hovers. they don t see it as something that s alarming the base, but it s a distraction to every other agenda item. they re trying to push, they think could maybe rouse their own base like trade, like immigration. but let s talk about the issue right now that obviously senate republicans are the most concerned about, that has to do with health care. these numbers from the washington post /abc news poll unbelievable, 50% of americans when it comes to health care prefer obamacare. absence really does make the heart grow fonder. that s the highest approval
with draemocrats. a new poll of counties pivotal in trump s 2016 victory and of the ones of flipped of obama, his approval is 44%. and on health care. half of all americans prefer the current health care law, about one quarter want the republican option being pushed now. 17% would prefer something else altogether. joe, i mean, politically, this doesn t look that great for this presidency. no. it s awfully early, but bob costa, even republican donors i ve been talking to over the past month, republican leaders are skeptical of their chances in 2018 in holding on to the house. you look at these numbers, independent support down to 32 % for the president. he has historically high disapproval numbers. his numbers are higher
the senate anyway so how they get anywhere on this is really beyond me at this point. mitch mcconnell i will say and donald trump are pulling out all the stops, someone at the white house told me last night that they think they can get this done with good old-fashioned arm twisting and horse trading but it s not clear to me what horses they have to trade and whose arms they can twist enough. because this bill is so toxic, so unpopular and there s just really no political incentive for them to get this through, when it harms the people that donald trump has reached out to, has kind of connected with the most. so i think what you re going to see here is they re going to move on to tax reform pretty quickly which actually they have working oen in a much more efficient and effective manner quietly over the last few weeks. and remember this number, in that new washington post /abc news poll, half of all americans prefer the current health care law, about one-quarter want the
nations governors met at their retreat. you saw governors, republicans like governor kasich of ohio, governor sandoval of nevada they say they don t want this bill or at least very concerned about it because of what it does to the medicaid expansion. that puts real pressure on people like senator heller, and if you re already losing collins, and you re already losing paul, that doesn t give you the option if you re leader mcconnell to lose a heller or to lose a portman, so that puts him in a difficult position this week just in terms of the math. nick, that s what i don t understand. how do you get dean heller s vote in nevada when you have brian sandoval who the guy has approval ratings up in the 70s, he s telling his constituents he s telling the press, he s telling americans that if you pass these medicaid cuts you will absolutely ravage health care in the state of nevada. i don t see how dean heller actually fights that, and john kasich in ohio saying the same
president donald trump s approval ratings which have plummeted. in one poll to the lowest ever recorded for a president in his first six months in office. a bloomberg national poll out this morning has president trump s job approval rating at 40%. while gallop puts the president s rating at 38%. and the washington post abc news poll finds 36% of americans approve of the job trump is doing. 58% disapprove. with 48% saying they disapprove strongly. the partisan breakdown of the washington post poll shows 82% of republicans approve. that s down from april. while the president dropped six points to 32% among independents, and is at just 11%