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Poll: Trump disliked as strongly as Nixon before his resignation

A new poll has found that President Trump is as strongly disliked by the American public as former President Nixon was shortly before he resigned from office.

A new Marist College poll found that 45 percent rated Trump’s job performance as poor — the same percentage who said Nixon was doing poorly as president in a Harris poll, CNN reported Saturday.

Twenty percent rated Trump's job performance as excellent and another 20 percent said Trump was doing a "pretty good" job. Less than half of Republican respondents — 49 percent — said Trump was doing an excellent job, compared to 2 percent of Democrats surveyed.

Read entire article at The Hill