Polling update

Newsweek - A SurveyUSA poll of 2,000 adults showed that a majority (51 percent) said they approve of Trump's job as president. A total of 45 percent said they disapprove, giving Trump a net approval score of plus 6 points.

When broken down further, the results show Trump has stronger approval ratings in rural areas (59 percent) than in suburban (48 percent) and urban areas (51 percent).

The SurveyUSA poll was conducted between February 13 and 16, with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points.

A Morning Consult poll, also released Tuesday, showed that 50 percent of voters approve of the job Trump is doing as president, compared to 47 percent who disapprove.

Yahoo - President Donald Trump's approval rating has ticked slightly lower in recent days as more Americans worried about the direction of the U.S. economy as the new leader threatens a host of countries with tariffs, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. The six-day poll, which closed on Tuesday, showed 44% of respondents approved of the job Trump is doing as president, down from 45% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted January 24-26. Trump's approval rating stood at 47% in a January 20-21 poll conducted in the hours after the Republican's return to the White House.

A CNN poll shows that only 8% of Americans view Russia positively. 61% see Russia as an enemy, and only 4% as a partner. Only 9% like Putin. 52% support Ukraine using US weapons in Russia.

 NY Times - About 29 percent of voters approve of Congress, according to a Gallup survey released on Wednesday, a jump of 12 percentage points since last month and the highest approval rating that a long-despised institution has scored in four years. But what is really behind this sudden positivity for the typically reviled legislative branch? A 42-point surge in approval among Republican voters.