Washington — US President Donald Trump’s approval rating has ticked up, according to two recent polls — an increase that could be due to rosier US economic data — but the Republican leader’s popularity still remains below that of his predecessors. Trump’s rating moved up from 35% to 42% from February to March, according to CNN’s monthly opinion poll and another study jointly conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Centre for Public Affairs Research. The two polls have a margin of error of 3.7 to 4.2 percentage points. Management of the world’s largest economy remains the strong point for the real estate mogul-turned-president — more Americans (48%) now approve of how he is handling the economy than disapprove (45%), according to the CNN poll. The sweeping tax cuts adopted by US Congress in December are also a high point for Trump: 46% of Americans polled approve of the president’s fiscal policy, the AP-NORC study reveals. On the negative side, Trump earns lower marks for his trade po...
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