Poll Shows Trump's Approval Rating Hit New Low After Charlottesville

It's Republicans, this time, who are responsible for edging the president down, though 80 percent of people who identified as Trump voters said they still stand by their guy.

According to the Quinnipiac researchers, six out of 10 American voters also disapprove of Trump's response to the events in Charlottesville, with a meager 32 percent approving and saying his handling of those events was correct.

During a press conference last week, Trump said there is "blame on both sides" for the violence in Virginia, where one person died and more were injured when a vehicle was driven into a group of counterprotesters.

The Quinnipiac University Poll reported 62 percent of the voters it surveyed felt that Trump is increasing divisions in the country; 31 percent said they felt the opposite.

Two days after making the blame "on many sides" comment, Trump issued a stronger condemnation of the white supremacists and nationalists and neo-Nazis.

It's Trump's worst score on the question ever, according to Tim Malloy, the poll's assistant director.

The latest Morning Consult/Politico poll has President Trump at an all-time low for that particular survey, with only 39 percent approval post-Charlottesville.

Many news reports during the past two weeks have focused on campaigns by activists - opponents of the white supremacists - who want to remove all public monuments and statues honoring leading figures in the Confederate States of America, the losing side in the Civil War.

Of course other surveys have shown President Trump in the 30s.

Thirty-two percent of respondents said the level of hatred in US public life has not changed since Trump was inaugurated, while two percent stated that it has improved.

Now 84 percent of Democrats and 58 percent of independents wither strongly or somewhat disapprove of the president's job performance.

In the poll released Wednesday, 62 percent of respondents say Trump is doing more to divide the country and 31 percent believe he is doing more to unite the nation.

Poll-takers also asked respondents to share the first word that came to mind when they thought of Trump.

Although Trump says most of the news media is "fake news" and "dishonest", 52 percent trust the media overall and 36 percent believe the president.

The poll, which had a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points, surveyed 1,009 registered voters nationwide from August 13 to 17.

And 69 percent of those surveyed want Trump to stop tweeting and 28 percent want him to continue.