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While the corporate media keeps pushing the narrative that Donald Trump’s approval ratings are sinking, we’ve seen this act before. Remember 2024? Pollsters swore up and down that Kamala Harris was going to win in a
landslide. But anyone who scrutinized the data knew those numbers were
bogus.

Now that Trump is back in office, the same game is playing out. The
media’s obsession with tearing him down hasn’t faded one bit. So we’re
flooded with polls from the same discredited pollsters who got 2024 so
wrong — polls that claim Trump is “underwater” while simultaneously
showing broad public approval of how he’s handling the issues that matter.
Case in point: even CNN’s Harry Enten was forced to admit on Wednesday
that Trump’s law-and-order message is hitting home with voters in a way
Joe Biden never could, and the numbers back it up.

“It speaks to one of Trump’s best issues, right? The idea of Alcatraz —
you think law and order, you think Donald Trump,” Enten said, driving home
a point that’s almost too obvious to require analysis. On CNN, of all
places, Enten presented data showing Trump with a positive net approval
rating on crime, something that eluded Biden for his entire presidency.

“Look at that,” Enten said. “At plus two points, far better than Joe Biden
who was so far underwater. My goodness, he was setting records at minus 26 points. You rarely ever see it.”

Yes, you read that correctly — while Biden sank to historic lows, Trump is
now in positive territory. Not only that, but Trump’s crime approval is stronger now in his second term than it was during his first.

“We compared Donald Trump’s first term to now his second term,” Enten explained. “We see that Donald Trump’s net approval rating on handling
crime is far better now at plus two points… than back in March of 2024 in
which he was underwater at minus 13 points.” That’s a stunning 15-point improvement.

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In typical fashion, Trump’s messaging — often mocked by the media as
outlandish or theatrical — is connecting with voters. Enten referenced
Trump’s remarks about Alcatraz, saying, “Yes, I know it’s late-night
fodder for a lot of different folks, but what it actually speaks to is
Donald Trump focusing the American people’s attention on an issue in which
they actually do like what he’s doing.”

Even more telling? The American public’s concern about crime is decreasing under Trump’s leadership. “It was 53% last year and look at where we are
now. We’re at 47%,” Enten noted. “It’s the first time in about five years
in which the percentage of Americans who worry a great deal about crime
has actually dropped under the 50% mark.”

That kind of drop isn’t just statistically significant; it’s politically potent. Enten emphasized that crime is one of just two issues where public concern declined by five points or more from 2024 to 2025, and it happened among both Democrats and Republicans.

So while Trump’s critics continue to spin, exaggerate, or dismiss his
rhetoric, voters are seeing something entirely different: results. “I
think Donald Trump is gonna continue on this law and order issue,” Enten concluded, “because the bottom line is, it is working for him.”


Just as it was obvious during the campaign that Trump’s support far
exceeded what the polls claimed, it’s clear now that his approval ratings
are higher than what those same discredited pollsters were pushing last
year.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/05/07/need-more-proof-that-polls- showing-trump-underwater-are-bogus-n4939552

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