US President Donald Trump’s approval ratings have surpassed those of his predecessor Barack Obama ahead of the congressional midterm elections, a new poll shows.
The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday that 47 percent of US voters approved of the job the Republican president was doing.
That’s the highest figure recorded by the survey so far and beats Obama’s 45 percent around the same time in 2010, according to a similar poll back then.
That’s significant because Obama’s approval rating was falling to record lows in October 2010, just before his party suffered a major upset in the midterms and lost a significant number of seats in the House of Representatives and Senate to the GOP.
While Trump has been among the most US presidents among the general US population, he continues to score extremely high with Republican voters as Recent polls show he is enjoying around a 90-percent approval rating among his…