Sunday 21 October 2018

President Donald Trump is touting high job


President Donald Trump is touting high job numbers as the reason his Republican Party should win the midterms as a new poll shows him with a record high approval rating - and Democrats winning in November.
'Best Jobs Numbers in the history of our great Country! Many other things likewise. So why wouldn't we win the Midterms? Dems can never do even nearly as well! Think of what will happen to your now beautiful 401-k's!,' Trump tweeted on Sunday.
The unemployment rate fell to 3.7 percent in September, the lowest since December 1969.
Trump and Republicans have made the strong economy a central reason to keep their party in power next year.
And a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows Trump with his highest job rating yet as president but it also has Democrats holding a 9-point lead in November's election.
Trump's job approval among registered voters came in at 47 percent with 49 percent disapproving.
That's his highest rating as president in the NBC/WSJ poll, the network noted.
Women, Latinos, and young voters are fueling the Democrats lead over Republicans, even as the GOP receives high ratings for their work on the economy.
In the poll, 50 percent of likely voters prefer Democratic control of Congress versus 41 percent who want Republicans to stay in power.
But Republicans have a 15-point advantage on the question of which party better deals with the economy — their biggest lead on this question in the poll's history, NBC noted.
Republicans also hold a 17-point advantage on trade, a 3-point advantage on handling the Supreme Court nomination process and a 1-point advantage on changing how Washington works.
Democrats have a 29-point advantage on looking out for women's interests, an 18-point advantage on health care, an 8-point advantage on looking out for the middle class and a four-point advantage on immigration.
Asked which one or two issues would be the most important factor in deciding their vote, 38 percent said the economy and jobs; 31 percent said health care, 23 percent said changing how things work; and 22 percent each said looking out for the middle class and immigration.
'It's a barnburner,' Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted the survey with Democratic pollster Fred Yang and Hart Research Associates, told NBC News

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