White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said President Donald Trump’s claim that leaders from the Boy Scouts called him to praise the aggressive political speech he gave last week at the national jamboree was not a lie, even as she acknowledged that no such call was made. She also defended another of the president’s inaccurate claims, this one about a phone call from Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto – which never happened. “They were direct conversations,” Sanders said. “Not actual phone calls.”
President Donald Trump’s approval has hit a new low, according to a Quinnipiac University poll.
The poll, conducted by Quinnipiac University, found that 33 percent of those surveyed approve of the job Trump is doing. The president's disapproval was at 61 percent, 6 points higher than Quinnipiac's last poll on June 29.
The Quinnipiac poll also found that among white voters without a college degree - a bloc that voted overwhelmingly for Trump in November - 50 percent say they are unhappy with him, while 43 percent approve.
The nationwide poll of 1,125 voters was taken from July 27 to Aug. 1; it has a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points.
