New poll offers Trump dose of good news, amid 2020 campaign launch

By Paul Steinhauser 

The president fires up his reelection campaign with harsh words for the
media, congressional and 2020 Democrats and Hillary Clinton in Orlando,
Florida; Jacqui Heinrich reports from Miami.

Hours after he formally kicked off his
<https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-launches-2020-re-election-campaign-o
rlando-arena>  2020 re-election campaign, a new national poll offers some
encouraging numbers for
<https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/donald-trump> President Trump.

The release Wednesday of a Suffolk University survey for USA Today comes a
day after another poll in the crucial presidential battleground state of
Florida showed the president trailing -- and as several other polls have
similarly shown high-profile Democratic candidates ahead.

But the
<https://www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suffolk/documents/academics/research-at-suf
folk/suprc/polls/national/2019/6_19_2019_marginals_pdftxt.pdf?la=en&hash=0A8
B98E4C936874B91CECF3F3B51939D5D9E8D9E> USA Today/Suffolk University survey
showed 49 percent of Americans approving of the job Trump’s doing as
president, with 48 percent giving him a thumbs down.

That’s a more positive showing for Trump compared with other recent polling
of his presidential approval rating.

And in the new survey, 49 percent of voters predicted Trump would win
re-election, with 38 percent pointing to a victory by the eventual
Democratic presidential nominee. Further, the poll indicated that if the
November 2020 general election were held today, the president would narrowly
edge an unnamed Democratic nominee -- 40-37 percent, with 9 percent
supporting an unnamed third-party candidate and 14 percent undecided.

That result differs from other recent national and early primary and caucus
voting state polls, which indicate Trump trailing some of the leading
Democratic White House hopefuls in hypothetical general election matchups.
Trump's 2020 re-election campaign manager has slammed such non-partisan
surveys as "the biggest joke in politics," and the president frequently
rails against them.

Trump trailed former Vice President Joe Biden – the clear front-runner right
now in the race for the Democratic nomination – 50-41 percent in a
<https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2629> Quinnipiac
University poll in Florida that was released on Tuesday. The survey also
suggested Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont topping Trump 48-42 percent and
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of  Massachusetts ahead of the president 47-43 percent
in hypothetical November 2020 showdowns. 

"President Donald Trump trails both former Vice President Joseph Biden and
Sen. Bernie Sanders in general election matchups and basically ties other
leading Democratic challengers," Quinnipiac University poll assistant
director Peter Brown said. "While most Florida voters are feeling better
financially, President Trump remains underwater with a 44 percent job
approval rating and a 51 percent disapproval rating."

The Quinnipiac University poll was released a few hours before
<https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-launches-2020-re-election-campaign-o
rlando-arena> Trump kicked off his 2020 re-election bid in a jam-packed
arena in Orlando. Trump edged Democratic presidential nominee Hillary
Clinton in the 2016 election to capture Florida’s 29 electoral votes.
Democratic President Barack Obama narrowly won the state in the 2008 and
2012 elections. 

Trump's re-election campaign manager, Brad Parscale, is taking aim at such
polls. 

"The country is too complex now just to call a couple hundred people and ask
them what they think. There are so many ways, and different people that are
gonna show up to vote now," Parscale told
<https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brad-parscale-interview-trump-2020-campaign-ma
nager-calls-polls-the-biggest-joke-in-politics/> CBS News. "The way turnout
now works, the abilities that we have to turn out voters – the polling can't
understand that. And that's why it was so wrong in 2016. It was 100 percent
wrong. Nobody got it right. Not one public poll.”

While Trump’s facing early warning signs in many national and early voting
state polls, raising campaign cash has not been an issue. Trump’s
re-election campaign and related committees raised an eye-popping $24.8
million in the 24 hours surrounding the president’s campaign kick-off,
according to Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel.

“@realDonaldTrump has raised a record breaking $24.8M in less than 24 hours
for his re-election. The enthusiasm across the country for this President is
unmatched and unlike anything we’ve ever seen! #trump2020
#KeepAmericaGreat,” McDaniel tweeted early Wednesday morning.

The USA Today/Suffolk University poll was conducted June 11-15, with 1,000
registered voters nationwide questioned by live telephone operators. The
overall sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.

The Quinnipiac University poll was conducted June 12-17, with 1,279 Florida
voters questioned by live telephone operators. The overall sampling error is
plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.

Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in New Hampshire.  

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