{"id":16888,"date":"2025-12-18T13:21:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-approval-down-8-points-since-start-of-year-poll\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T13:21:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:21:37","slug":"trumps-approval-down-8-points-since-start-of-year-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-approval-down-8-points-since-start-of-year-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s approval down 8 points since start of year: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump&rsquo;s approval rating has dropped eight points since he started his second presidential term at the beginning of the year, according to a new Emerson College Polling survey.  Forty-one percent of voters said they approve of the job Trump is doing as president, down from 49 percent who said the same in January&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5653000-trump-approval-rating-drop\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump&rsquo;s approval rating has dropped eight points since he started his second presidential term at the beginning of the year, according to a new Emerson College Polling survey. Forty-one percent of voters said they approve of the job Trump is doing as president, down from 49 percent who said the same in January&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}