The following article by Griffin Connolly was posted on the Roll Call website October 4, 2017:
Nearly half the country disapproves of president’s handling of hurricane disaster on the island
President Donald Trump has not scored political points for his response to the disaster wrought on the U.S. island of Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria a new poll shows.
Nearly half of all respondents to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll disapproved of the job the president is doing there.
Less than a third — just 32 percent — approved of Trump’s leadership in the federal relief effort.
“It took him how long to get to Puerto Rico?” Bree Harris, a 25-year-old chef and Democrat from Los Angeles, told the AP. She believes the president “didn’t even know that Puerto Rico was an island that was part of America. It’s embarrassing.” Continue reading “Poll: Only a Third Approves of Trump’s Puerto Rico Response”