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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.

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