President Donald Trump is as strongly disliked by the American people as Nixon was just before he resigned from the White House following the Watergate scandal, according to a new poll.
The Marist College poll of more than 1,000 adults found that 45 percent of citizens rated Trump’s presidential performance as “poor” last month. Before former-President Nixon resigned in 1974, 45 percent also said he was doing a poor job in a 1974 Harris Poll.
One-fifth of respondents rated Trump’s performance as “excellent”, and an additional 20 percent voted that the president was doing a “pretty good” job. Of those, 49 percent of Republicans said Trump was "excellent" at running the White House, compared to only two percent of Democrats polled.
