Donald Trump’s Favorability Rating: Here’s a Pre-Immigration Benchmark

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Here are Donald Trump’s favorability ratings since Election Day. I’m putting this up as a benchmark. It’s currently 41.8 percent according to Pollster, and that’s before any new polling has been done following the chaos of Trump’s immigration order. In a couple of weeks we should have an initial read on whether this has helped or hurt him.