President Trump’s approval rating among Republicans is not 96 percent. Since mid-April, he has tweeted nearly two dozen times that 96 percent of Republicans approve of the job he’s doing. What was his approval rating before April 10, you may ask. In other words, Trump’s approval rating among Republicans has, according to Trump, increased three percentage points over the past 20 months, and those increases were discrete, happening on three occasions. I am very confident that, before the election, Trump will suddenly announce that his approval rating is 97 percent, or maybe higher, but he is definitely running out of headroom.

Source: Washington Post August 22, 2020 14:37 UTC