- Tue Apr 25, 2017 2:36 pm
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The president scores a perfect 100% approval rating in the USA TODAY voter panel, a nationwide group of Trump voters who make up a sort of floating focus group on how the president fares among those who backed him.
"He's not being pushed around," Deidra Brady, 48, of Broadway, N.C., says approvingly. Tara Kimble, 61, of Breaux Bridge, La., predicts with Trump-like bravado that history will judge him as a great president: "He's doing a better job than anybody has done."
While reviews from presidential scholars and the broader public are mixed at best, these core supporters remain solidly in Trump's corner. The sturdiness of that support, also reflected in national polls, gives the president a reliable political base even as he struggles to expand his appeal to those who didn't back him on Election Day.
Indeed, their assessments are more positive now than they were amid the afterglow of his inauguration in January. More than half now say Trump is doing better than they expected when they voted for him.
What they say they do like is Trump's straight talk, as well as his focus on jobs and his energy. "He talked about 'Make America Great Again,' (and) he's on the path," says Monty Chandler, 45, of Church Point, La. "We're not even 100 days in, less than three months in, and he's already moving and shaking."
- By johnforbes