The first week of December, one month after his election, President-elect Donald Trump’s popularity among Americans soared to the highest level of his political career in the RealClearPolitics average, for the first time achieving a net-positive favorability rating.
Trump had never before had more people approve of him than disapprove of him in the RCP average of polls until December 4, when the RCP average showed him with a 49.1% favorability rating and a 47.6% unfavorability rating. Four days later, his favorability rating rose to 49.4%, while the unfavorability rating stayed the same, dipping to 47.4% on December 11.
On July 6, 2015, Trump’s favorability rating was a paltry 22.7% as he started his candidacy. His unfavorability rating stood at a massive 62%, rising to a high of 64.5% in mid-April 2016. But that unfavorability rating nosedived after his election in 2016,…
