Republican pollster Ed Goeas said Thursday that President Trump could drive up his approval rates and win his reelection in 2020 by a wide margin if he just talked about the economy during his campaign.
“If you look at his overall job approval, that includes everything. That includes him on issues, politics, and personality, and that’s where you get into low 40s or mid 40s. If you ask specifically, job approval on the economy, on taxes, on jobs, he is in the high 50s, ” Goeas said on Hill.TV’s What America’s Thinking.
The economy number has become President Trump’s one of his major selling points. The Labor Department said on May 3rd that the economy added 263,000 jobs, and the employment rate is at its lowest level since 1969.
The booming economy performance also boost voters’ confidence in the Republican Party. In the latest Hill-HarrisX poll, 43 percent registered voters trust the GOP more to handle the economy issue, while 33 percent trust the Democratic Party.
“The key here is, we are looking at the worst gender gap this party has ever had, but if you look at married white women, which we usually won by 20 points, if you look at white women overall that we usually win by between 4 and 8 points nationwide, both of those groups are in the high 50s on the economy, jobs, and taxes, ” Goeas said.
—Philip Wang
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