The share of voters
with an unfavorable view of Donald Trump has risen to 68 percent in a recent Bloomberg poll.
WASHINGTON — For months, as Donald Trump lurched from controversy to controversy, commentators marveled that his voters remained loyal: Trump is impervious to political attack, some said.
But Trump wasn’t immune; analysts were failing to look at the whole picture.
Controversy over Trump has failed to dent his standing with his core supporters in the Republican primaries, but his image among the rest of the electorate has plunged.
The share of Americans with an unfavorable view of Trump is extraordinary: 68 percent in the most recent Bloomberg poll, 67 percent in the CNN/ORC survey, 67 percent in the ABC/Washington Post poll, 65 percent from Gallup.
The 57 percent unfavorable rating he received in the most recent CBS/New York Times survey looks mild by comparison.
Over the past three decades, pollsters have asked the public how it feels about scores of political figures. Not one has been so un- popular as Trump.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney hit a 60 percent unfavorable rating during the last years of the George W. Bush administration.
Newt Gingrich’s unpopularity exceeded 60 percent during his unsuccessful run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.
George H.W. Bush’s unfavorable level also hit 60 percent when he went down to defeat in his reelection effort in 1992.
None of them hits Trump’s level.
More than half of Americans had a negative view of Trump before his presidential campaign began.
He is extremely unpopular among Democrats, with more than 8 in 10 viewing him negatively. But he is also unpopular among many Republican women.
Republican men tend to view Trump favorably, with 61 percent having a positive image of him and 36 percent negative, according to the latest Gallup polling.
But among Republican women, the verdict is almost even — 49 percent positive, 46 percent negative, Gallup found.