Key Points
• Even as public approval of President Trump and Congress remain in the basement, 50-state opinion polling shows that Americans as a whole are pretty enamored of their governors.
• In fact, 47 of the nation’s 50 governors are outperforming Trump in their state, and this group includes governors from all regions and partisan affiliations, and in states of every political leaning.
• The governors, Democratic and Republican alike, seem to have pulled off this trick by eschewing the divisive rhetoric of Donald Trump and taking a pragmatic approach to governing. CONT.
Louis Jacobson, Sabato’s Crystal Ball