Majority of Republicans think Trump failed with his latest attempt to save face: data guru

A majority of Americans – including Republicans – believe that President Donald Trump was desperate to end his war in Iran regardless of whether his goals were accomplished.

The president signed a memorandum of understanding last week to negotiate an end to the war he launched Feb. 28, and CNN’s Harry Enten presented polling data that showed public opinion had remained solidly against Trump all along.

“You know, they disapproved of him a month ago, they disapproved of him two months ago, and they still disapprove of him,” Enten said. “I mean, the polling is quite steady.”

Enten encountered some technical difficulties that prevented him from displaying the polling data onscreen, but he pressed on and recited the numbers from memory.

“Look, people disapproved of Trump two months ago,” he said. “His disapproval rating was 64 percent, last month it was 66 percent, and this month it is the same – 64 percent. So what we’re talking about is that Americans, you can pay attention to me here. Americans still disapprove of the job that Donald Trump is doing on Iran, and 75 percent of independents disapprove of the job that Donald Trump is doing on Iran. So regardless of any deal that was made, the American people still disapprove of the job that Donald Trump is doing on Iran, despite whatever he’s doing.”

“The bottom line is this,” he added. “No matter what deal has been made, the clear majority, two-thirds of Americans, still disapprove of the job that Donald Trump is doing when it comes to that conflict.”

Enten found similar support for the president’s agreement to end the war.

“So why did Trump agree to the deal?” Enten said. “Well, it’s simply this: Why Trump agreed to the Iran deal, wants the war to end or think the U.S. met its war goals. Look at this, 66 percent of Americans simply think he wanted to end the war, and even among Republicans, his own party, don’t think that, in fact, the Trump administration met its war goals. In fact, they think he wants to just end the war.”

“So this idea, hey, we won, we won, everyone, we won – the American people don’t think that is exactly what happened,” he added. “What they think happened was Iran was fighting back, America looked at the chance of victory in terms of what Trump initially laid out as the chance of victory. They did not think that that was possibly going to be accomplished. We’re talking about two-thirds of Americans and even a majority of Republicans did.”