Donald Trump ’s job-approval ratings have been essentially stable for the last couple of months. According to the Silver Bulletin’s polling averages , his net approval rating was at minus-8 percent on July 25 and is at minus-8.4 percent on September 22. Trump’s second-term job-approval averages started at plus-11.7 percent on January 21, went underwater in March, bottomed out in mid-July at minus-10.3 percent, then increased a bit and stayed put. That means Trump is less popular than any post–World War II president at this stage in their presidency, other than himself during his first term. (For comparison, Joe Biden was at minus-2.6 percent at this point.)

While Trump’s overall approval ratings have stabilized at the moment, there’s some churn beneath the surface in terms of how his p

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