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Nancy Pelosi Has A Lower Approval Rating Than Donald Trump

With all the noise made about Nancy Pelosi being a resistance hero who is supposedly out maneuvering Donald Trump at every turn, it turns out that the Democratic Party leader isn't actually that well liked by Americans.

The "Patron Saint of Shade", a nickname given to Pelosi by her most devoted followers, has an extremely loyal following within the Democratic Party, so much so that people like Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos embarrassingly hand delivered a thousand red roses to Nancy Pelosi's office.

However, for all the sycophantic devotion to Pelosi that keeps her in power, Americans as a whole are extremely unsatisfied with Nancy Pelosi and her performance when it comes to opposing President Trump.

According to the RCP Polling Averages, current President Donald Trump's approval rating currently sits at an average of 44.3% and an average disapproval rating of 50.6%, a minus 6.3% approval rating overall.

With Pelosi, the numbers are even worse. Pelosi currently boasts an abysmal approval rating of just 36%, with a disapproval rating of 52.8%, a minus 16.8% overall approval rating.

For all of Pelosi's posturing about how terrible Trump is and how he must be defeated in November, she hasn't actually done much resisting at all. Pelosi, along with many other Democrats have given Donald Trump nearly everything he could possibly want on a policy level.

While claiming Trump is so unstable that he shouldn't even be in office, Pelosi and other Democrats voted to extend the Patriot Act, which gives Trump, of all people, mass extrajudicial surveillance powers. Pelosi also voted to give Trump a massive $738 billion military budget, a $20 billion increase compared to last year and a $120 billion increase compared to former President Obama's military budget. Now, why on earth would you vote to give a man as insane as Donald Trump mass surveillance powers and the largest military budget in American history?

For all of Pelosi's grandstanding, tearing up Trump's State of the Union speech and sarcastic clapping, she has given Trump much more than he should ever have gotten. In June of 2019 Pelosi enraged progressives by giving Trump a $4.6 billion emergency funding package for the US-Mexico border, which was seen as a victory for President Trump who could use the money to fund the border wall that he campaigned on.
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