Majority disapproves of Trump job performance ahead of address to Congress: Survey

A majority in a new survey disapprove of President Trump’s job performance ahead of his scheduled address to Congress.

In the CNN poll released Sunday and conducted in the final five days of last month, 52 percent of respondents said they do not support “the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president"; 48 percent say they do support the president's performance.

Pollsters also found 39 percent of respondents said the country would go toward a “right direction” through “the policies being proposed by Donald Trump,” while 45 percent disagreed.

Trump is scheduled to speak before Congress on Tuesday at 9 p.m. EST. In January, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) invited him to give a speech, with the Louisiana Republican saying in a letter that Trump’s “administration and the 119th Congress working together have the chance to make these next four years some of the most consequential in our nation’s history.”

Most of the CNN poll was conducted before a tense Oval Office meeting between Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Vice President Vance on Friday that sent shockwaves through Washington, with the president and Ukrainian leader arguing over U.S. support for Ukraine.

The meeting resulted in blowback from Democrats as well as some Republicans, with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) calling it “an utter embarrassment for America."

The CNN poll surveyed 2,212 people and has a margin of error of 2.4 percentage points.

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