Support for President Trump has dipped below 40 percent in a trio of key states – Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan – which propelled him to the White House in 2016.
A new NBC News/Marist poll found 36 percent of Michigan voters viewed Trump favorably, while 35 percent of Pennsylvania voters and 34 percent of Wisconsin voters, agreed.
The poll was conducted starting Sunday, the day after a counter-protester was killed by a Nazi sympathizer in Charlottesville, Virginia, through Thursday, two days after Trump gave a widely-criticized press conference in the lobby of Trump Tower.
President Trump has diminished support in three states he turned red last November, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan
Voters in the three states that put President Trump in the White House – Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – view the president more unfavorably than favorably
In Wisconsin another 56 percent of the state’s voters said they viewed Trump unfavorably.
Fifty-five percent of Michigan voters and 54 percent of Pennsylvania voters agreed.
Voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin were also asked if Trump’s actions as president made them feel embarrassed or proud.
In all three states more than 60 percent said Trump made them feel embarrassed.
In Michigan and Wisconsin, 64 percent of voters shared that sentiment.
In Pennsylvania the number was 63 percent.
On the flip side, 25 percent of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin voters said they were proud of Trump’s behavior.
In Michigan that number was 28 percent.
Trump performs better among these states’ voters when asked about the economy.
In Michigan, 42 percent of voters believed the US economy had been strengthened under Trump, a sentiment agreed to by 45 percent of Pennsylvania voters and 41 percent of Wisconsin voters.
However, six in 10 voters in all three states said they believed the US role in the world has been diminished under the leadership of President Trump.
Trump’s low approval numbers in these three key states present an opening for Democrats in 2018, the survey suggests.
Michigan voters gave Democrats a 13 point advantage over Republicans when asked who they preferred to control Congress after 2018.
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin voters preferred the Democrats too, with Pennsylvanians giving the Dems a 10 point advantage and Wisconsinites giving them an 8 point edge.