Thread: More than half of U.S. voters said they approve of Trump’s controversial travel ban,

More than half of U.S. voters said they approve of Trump’s controversial travel ban, poll shows

BY
Adam Edelman
Wednesday, February 8, 2017, 9:27 AM

More voters approve of President Trump's controversial executive order on immigration than they do of nearly any other of his orders, a new poll out Wednesday found.

More than half (55%) of registered voters said they approve of the order — which bars people from seven Muslim-majority countries and all refugees from entering the U.S. — while only 38% said they disapprove, the latest Morning Consult/Politico poll found.

That would represent the highest rating found in a Morning Consult/Politico poll for any of the executive orders Trump has signed so far.

The high mark ties the 55% who said in a Morning Consult/ Politico poll that they supported Trump's executive order last month to revoke federal government funding for so-called "sanctuary cities."

Trump says U.S. won't be safe and secure without his travel ban

Other Morning Consult / Politico polls have shown that 54% of voters approve of Trump's executive order to freeze all federal government regulations (with 33% disapproving), that 49% of voters approve of the executive order to delay implementing parts of the Affordable Care Act (with 41% disapproving), and that 48% of voters approve of the executive orders to advance the Keystone XL pipeline, to freeze federal government hiring and to begin construction on the border wall.

The latest Morning Consult/Politico poll, conducted Feb. 2-4 among 2,070 registered voters, nevertheless found that Trump's approval rating had declined two percentage points from its previous week's poll, to 47%.

The latest poll found that his disapproval ratings rose five percentage points to 46%.

The poll's results about the travel ban, however, contradict the results of other recent polls.

A CNN/ORC survey out over the weekend found that 53% Americans opposed Trump's travel ban. That poll also found 55% of Americans said they interpreted the ban as a way to bar Muslims from entering the U.S.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco held a hearing Tuesday evening on the order, marking the greatest legal challenge yet to the ban. The Justice Department is seeking a stay on a Seattle judge's order that halted the travel ban, pending fuller consideration from the court on the appeal itself.

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