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US President Donald Trump\u2019s approval rating has climbed to 51 percent, according to the conservative-leaning Rasmussen polling group.<\/p>\n
The poll<\/a> revealed that 39 percent of likely American voters \u201cstrongly disapprove\u201d<\/em> of the way Trump is performing, while 35 percent \u201cstrongly approve\u201d<\/em> of the job he is doing.<\/p>\n The research, released on Monday morning, comes in the aftermath of military action taken by the Trump administration in Syria late last Friday. The US, along with the United Kingdom and France, launched strikes against Syrian government positions in retaliation for an alleged chemical attack in the city of Douma.<\/p>\n Trump enjoyed a bump in the polls around the same time last year, which also followed airstrikes in Syria. Historically, the approval ratings of American presidents have risen following military action that produces a \u2018rally around the flag\u2019 effect.<\/p>\n In its Monday release, Rasmussen took a shot at former FBI director James Comey for claiming in his new book that polls in October 2016 showed Hillary Clinton was more likely to win the presidency. Comey had angered Democrats at the time by reopening an FBI investigation into Clinton\u2019s mishandling of classified information 10 days before the election \u2013 a decision that Clinton has blamed for her loss.<\/p>\n \u201cRasmussen Reports and two others showed that it was a close race, and they were the ones who proved to be right on election day,\u201d<\/em> the pollster said.<\/p>\n Other polls still have Trump\u2019s ratings lower than Rasmussen\u2019s, however, with the latest NBC\/WSJ poll<\/a> showing only a 39 percent approval rate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" US President Donald Trump\u2019s approval rating has climbed to 51 percent, according to the conservative-leaning Rasmussen polling group. The poll revealed that 39 percent of likely American voters \u201cstrongly disapprove\u201d of the way Trump is performing, while 35 percent \u201cstrongly approve\u201d of the job he is doing. The research, released on Monday morning, comes in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":357043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-357042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}