President Donald Trump's advice on treating the coronavirus is more harmful than helpful a plurality of respondents said according to a poll released Tuesday in the wake of the president's suggestion that Americans ingest or inject themselves with disinfectants.
The poll, conducted by Monmouth University, found that 42 percent of those polled said the president's rhetoric on coronavirus treatments, which also has included promoting medications that have not been approved as treatments for Covid-19, has been harmful. A third said the president's treatment advice has been helpful, while 23 percent said his public remarks on treatment are neither particularly harmful nor helpful.
The poll, which was conducted last week after Trump significantly scaled back his daily coronavirus task force briefings, found a predictable partisan divide on the subject of Trump’s medical advice. More than two thirds of Republicans, 68 percent, said they consider Trump’s advice helpful. But most Democrats, 72 percent, said they viewed the president's remarks as harmful.
There was slightly more agreement over whether Trump has been consistent in the task force briefings from day to day, with most Americans — 55 percent — calling his remarks inconsistent, compared with 36 percent who said Trump has been largely consistent in the briefings. The partisan divide on this issue remained, the poll found, with majorities of Democrats and independents calling Trump inconsistent, and only 18 percent of Republicans agreed with that assessment.
“It is difficult to look at the briefing transcripts and not see inconsistency from one day to the next. These poll results are just another reminder of how people filter information to reframe some facts and dismiss others in order to maintain their own internal consistency when it comes to perceptions of Trump,” Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute, said in a statement that accompanied the poll's release.
Those numbers on Trump's coronavirus rhetoric come as public approval of his handling of the pandemic continues to slip. Forty-two percent of respondents said the president has done a good job, compared with 51 percent who said he’s done a bad job. The most recent figures represent a dip from March's Monmouth poll, when Trump received positive marks for his handling of the pandemic: 50 percent of those polled said he’d done a good job versus 45 percent who said he has done a bad job in addressing coronavirus.
Over the past few months, Trump’s overall approval rating has continued to slide. The latest poll shows 43 percent approve of the president's overall job performance while 51 percent disapprove, down slightly from 44 percent approved, and 49 percent disapproved last month.
While both general approval of Trump and approval of his handling of coronavirus have ticked down, Americans continue to give federal health officials and their own local leaders high marks for their handling of the virus.
Approval for federal health agencies sits 21 points higher than the president’s, with just a quarter who disapprove.
Overall, nearly three-quarters of Americans said their governor is doing a good job handling the outbreak, versus 22 percent said their governor is doing a bad job.
“People are looking for a steady hand in a crisis. State officials and public health professionals have largely been consistent in their approach to the pandemic,” Murray said. “This is one reason why satisfaction with their response has been high and stable throughout, unlike views of the president’s actions.”
Despite protests bubbling up across the country in recent weeks by demonstrators opposing their states' strict social distancing requirements, putting pressure on governors to reopen, such sentiments continue to be in the minority, the poll found.
Nearly two thirds of respondents said that they fear states will begin lifting coronavirus restrictions too quickly, more than double the 29 percent who expressed concertn that states won’t move quickly enough to relax their mandates. More than half, 56 percent, said leaders should prioritize public health concerns over the desire to avoid an extended economic rout, which just one-third said should be more important.
Furthermore, about 6 in 10 of those polled said measures taken by their state governor to address the outbreak have been appropriate, with 22 percent saying those mandates have not gone far enough.
Just 17 percent said the measures have gone too far — though that number is up from 8 percent in April and 9 percent in March.
The Monmouth University Poll was sponsored and conducted by the Monmouth University Polling Institute from April 30 to May 4 with a national random sample of 808 adults age 18 and older contacted by phone. The results of the full survey have a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
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