A new Harvard-Harris poll released Monday showed President Donald Trump is outperforming Congress by a significant 19 points.
Translation: Congress is far more unpopular with America's registered voters.
While Trump's 47% approval remained just slightly underwater by 2 points against 49% disapproval, the congressional job approval in the poll is far worse at a net-negative 21 points (35% approval and 56% disapproval).
But longtime conservative pollster Rasmussen Reports on Monday had Trump at a net-negative 12 approval (43% approve, 55% disapprove).
Similarly, Trump's numbers in the Harvard-Harris polling also outperform his Rasmussen numbers on "direction of the country."
Harvard-Harris is 9 points more Trump-friendly on that question, with 39% saying the U.S. is going in the "right direction" under Trump (net negative 13 points, with 52% saying "wrong track").
Rasmussen's poll has Trump at 36% on "right direction" and 58% "wrong track" for a net-negative 22 points.
The Harvard Center for American Political Studies, along with the pollsters at The Harris X Poll and HarrisX, surveyed 2,204 registered voters Dec. 2-4. The margin of error for the full sample was plus or minus 1.99 percentage points.
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