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Your support makes all the difference.With a burgeoning field of Democratic presidential hopefuls vying for their party’s nomination to take on Donald Trump in 2020, a tight grouping of candidates has emerged with a just a few earning the distinction as front-runners in the polls.
As those democrats cross the country from Iowa to New Hampshire and South Carolina hoping to earn voter support, Mr Trump faces his own reckoning in the form of approval ratings for the job he is doing as president.
So far in the just over two years he has been in office, Mr Trump has seen approval ratings in the low 40s — a troubling sign for a man who hopes to once again win one of the most powerful offices in the world.
Take a look below for the latest poll coverage from The Independent. We will be updating with the latest individual polls of import, as well as frequent updates on the aggregates of polls and what they mean for the 2020 election prospects.
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Americans have little trust in Donald Trump when it comes to healthcareDonald Trump has launched a fresh effort to take on Obamacare this week, and has told his fellow Republicans that they cannot ignore the issue if they want to win in 2020.
But, a new poll from POLITICO/Morning Consult shows that Americans may not be on board wit the president's new effort to dismantle the 2010 law: A plurality of voters support the bill, voters have little trust in Mr Trump to reform the system, and the poll shows that Americans trust Democrats more when it comes to healthcare legislation.
The poll was conducted in the days after the Trump administration asked a federal court last week to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act.
When asked who they trust on healthcare: 45 per cent said they trust Democrats, while just 35 per cent said they trust Republicans.
Wen asked about Mr Trump: A 59 per cent majority of voters said they have little or no trust in the president on the issue.
The law itself also gained 47 per cent support, compared to 41 per cent who said they disagreed with Obamacare.
The poll was conducted between 29 March and 1 April, and surveyed 1,945 voters. The margin of error came out to plus or minus 2 per cent.
Americans more at ease with a gay president?A recent poll sheds some light on how Americans view the prospects of mayor Pete Buttigieg, a gay man, to become president.
The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll was released earlier this year, but its findings are getting a bit more attention now that Mr Buttigieg is getting some attention following a surprisingly strong first quarter fundraising total of $7m.
The survey found that 54 per cent of Americans are comfortable with a gay man being president of the United States, while another 14 per cent say they would be "enthusiastic" about it.
That's quite the change from just a decade ago, when a similar poll concluded tat 50 per cent of Americans had "reservations" or were "very uncomfortable" with the idea of a gay man being president.
The shift was driven in part by those under 35, where 75 per cent of American voters indicated an ease with the idea of a gay person being president.
The poll was conducted between 24 February and 27 February, with 900 adults surveyed. The poll has a 3.3 per cent margin of error.
Welcome to The Independent's ongoing coverage of 2020 election polls
For our inaugural post, here is the current aggregate of the top 2020 democrats, per Real Clear Politics (RCP):
- Joe Biden — 29.2 per cent
- Bernie Sanders — 21.8 per cent
- Kamala Harris — 9.8 per cent
- Beto O'Rourke — 9.2 per cent
- Elizabeth Warren — 5.7 per cent
- Cory Booker — 3.2 per cent
- Pete Buttigieg — 2.2 per cent
- Amy Klobuchar — 1.7 per cent
- Andrew Yang — 1 pere cent
- Julian Castro — 1 per cent
- John Hickenlooper — 0.7 per cent
- Kirsten Gillibrand — 0.7 per cent
- Jay Inslee — 0.7 per cent
Meanwhile, Donald Trump's approval sits at 43.7 per cent, according to the RCP aggregate of polls on the matter.
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