When has a FLOTUS not been more popular then her hubby? – PB/TK
Why Melania Trump’s popularity is on the rise – Patrick Reilly CS Monitor staff March 9, 2017
—President Trump’s approval ratings currently stand at 42 percent, according to Gallup. That’s well below the marks his predecessors were receiving during their first few months, and could bode poorly for his administration’s political future.
But these low ratings haven’t dragged down first lady Melania Trump. A CNN/ORC poll released Wednesday gives her a “favorable” rating of 52 percent, up from 36 percent before the inauguration.
“The jump in Melania Trump’s approval ratings has been credited to more Americans forming an opinion about the first lady,” wrote the International Business Times, with 23 percent of respondents claiming to have “no opinion” about Mrs. Trump before the inauguration, compared with 12 percent afterwards.
Trump isn’t the first presidential spouse to receive a post-inaugural bump in approval ratings. In 1993, Vanity Fair reported that Hillary Clinton saw her popularity rise from 46 percent in the December before her husband’s inauguration to 57 percent during his first week in office.
But Mrs. Trump has shunned the limelight that Mrs. Clinton and her other predecessors held. In doing so, she may have kept public opinion of her high even as attitudes towards her husband sour.
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