Rory O'Neill, WOR national correspondent interview

Quinnipiac University's poll on President Trump's approval rating of his policies is the lowest among many other polls. Which one should you follow? Larry and Rory break it down for you.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Every day. It seems like we're hit with a new
poll and tracking all the polls is Rory O'Neil w
l R, National correspondent. Which one are you focusing on? Rory?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Well, last week of the month must be. We've got
a Quinnipiac University poll from up the road there in Connecticut.
I like to follow their monthly polls because it gives
us a good trend. You know, don't freak out over
one number from one poll at one time. Always try
to look at what the trend is up to.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah, I agree with you. There was a whole lot
of polls released yesterday. What does Quinnipiac say.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Quinnipiac is looking well. They always ask base questions about,
you know, what's the president's performance, how he's doing, what's
his job approval, But they also throw in questions about
headlines at the day and on that issue about the
deployment of the National Guard troops throughout DC voters fifty
six to forty one percent a pose that move. Republicans

(00:55):
support it, Democrats do not. But there's also a gender
split here. Men are about fifty to fifty on the issue,
but women sixty three to thirty three percent. Oppose the
idea of deploying troops to the streets of DC.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
This is exactly why I don't I follow polls. I
love polls. I go to them all the time. They're
like candy to me. But they're all over the place.
Because the Associated Press has a poll out showing that
eighty one percent of adults think that the cities have
a major crime problem, and well over fifty percent think

(01:32):
it's a good idea to send troops. So it's amazing.
It's like pick a pole. You can find your favorite
poll that are going to support any way you feel
about a particular issue.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, and we're also seeing I think I haven't seen
that pole specifically, but I think they go in opposite directions.
When it comes to President Trump's approval numbers, Quinnipiac has
some of his lowest numbers of this term. Thirty seven
percent of voters approve of the way Donald Trump is
handling his job, fifty five percent disapprove. I think the
poll high this term was around forty six percent back

(02:04):
in March. According to Quinnipiac. It's been a pretty stead
steady downward trend since then.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, I know, you know, there was one two three, four, five,
five polls put out yesterday, And so Quinnipiac had the
lowest number for Donald Trump. And so Rasmussen has them
at forty nine, but that's known to lean to the right.
AP has them at forty five. Reuters is the closest,

(02:30):
has them at forty But nobody else has them under
forty percent except Quinnipiac. And look, I went to Quinnipiac.
That's where I got my masters. I've been at the
polling center there. They have a good poll. It's just
that every once in a while they get an outlier.
Everybody does it, you know, they have they have great methods,
but everybody has these outliers. What else does it say?

Speaker 2 (02:52):
And I go back to the trend. It also showed
their July pole showed that President Trump had forty percent approval.
They did. We also ask about Israel and Hamas six
and ten voters opposed the US sending any more military
aid to Israel. At this point, it's the highest level
of the opposition, or you could say the lowest level
of support since the October attack a few years ago.

(03:15):
On the Epstein files, seven out of ten voters say
they are following the news about the Epstein files very
very closely, and two thirds disapprove of the way the
Trump administration is handling them. And on this idea of
the Trump administration getting involved in those displays at the
Smithsonian Museums, you know, the administration has said they're too negative.

(03:35):
They should do more to celebrate the accomplishments of Americans.
Six and ten voters oppose the review by the Trump administration.
Republicans are more likely to support the review overall. Wow.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
I mean, it's so much different than all the other
polls that are out. The Quinnipiac one is the worst
for Donald Trump, and I'm surprised at that because they
aren't always I don't want to rip the Quinnipiac poll.
I just think I think that they just they're an
outlier this time and that happened.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
I refer to them for the consistency and to watch
the trend. But I always remind people this is the
same outfit the predicted president Hillary Clinton.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yes, very well, said all right, thanks so much. Rory O'Neill.
Will talk to you again tomorrow. Appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Thanks, Larry, talk too soon.