To assess how President Trump’s approval rating has been affected by the completion of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation, we looked at three approval measures. To assess how Trump’s approval rating has been affected by the end of Mueller’s investigation, we looked at three measures: FiveThirtyEight’s rolling estimate of Trump’s approval based on polling, RealClearPolitics’s polling average and the daily approval rating from Trump’s favored pollster, Rasmussen Reports. Overall, the pattern shown is a familiar one: Trump’s approval rating hasn’t changed much. The RealClearPolitics average went from minus-10.8 to minus-8.3, a 2.5-point improvement in Trump’s approval rating. We return, then, to our perennial question: Could anything significantly move Trump’s approval numbers firmly in one direction or the other?

Source: Washington Post April 03, 2019 14:22 UTC