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Trump’s approval rating hits new low in Bloomberg poll

By Bloomberg
18 July 2017   |   10:10 am
The latest Bloomberg National Poll finds Americans confident about the state of the U.S. economy, in spite of President Donald Trump, who saw his approval rating decline to a new low of 40 percent.

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