On U.S. direction under Trump, Californians split sharply along partisan lines, poll finds

How California voters feel about President Trump and his agenda largely comes down to political party and partisanship, according to a new poll.

Californians are heavily divided over the state’s efforts to build a high-speed rail line through the Central Valley.

California voters are heavily divided along partisan lines when it comes to President Trump, with large majorities of Democrats and unaffiliated voters disapproving of him and believing the country is headed in the wrong direction under his leadership, and many Republicans feeling the opposite, according to a new poll conducted for The Times.

The findings are remarkably consistent with past polling on the Republican president in the nation’s most populous blue state, said Mark DiCamillo, director of the UC Berkeley Institute o