A poll by Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that less than a quarter of Americans think President Donald Trump has made good on the pledges he made to voters during his campaign.
Only half of the Republicans say Trump kept his promises like those to overhaul former president Barack Obama’s health care law, withdraw of the United States from a nuclear deal with Iran and invest millions in new projects to fix the aging infrastructure. But, nothing has happened, The Washington Post reports.
“Everything has stalled out,” said Mark Krowski, an independent from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who leans Republican but didn’t vote for Trump last year.
According to the poll, three in 10 Americans think the United States is heading in the right direction, and 52 percent said the country is worse off since Trump became president. About 30 percent think that Trump has tried and failed to keep his promises and 45 percent think he hasn’t kept them at all.
Another Associated Press-NORC poll conducted this month showed that Trump’s job approval rating sits at just 32 percent. That makes him the least popular first-year president on record.
About 40 percent of Americans approved of Trump’s handling of the economy. About 25 percent of Americans think the country is better off since Trump took office — and only 20 percent say they personally are doing better. Only 9 percent think the country has become more united as a result of Trump’s presidency, while 67 percent think the country is more divided because of Trump. Even Republicans are more likely to say Trump has divided America than united it, 41 percent to 17 percent.
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