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What if we told you that Donald Trump is a really unpopular president? Would that surprise you?

It's certainly not something you hear much in the media. Yet in the last few days, five big national polls have come out showing Trump's approval numbers in really terrible shape. This is even more visible on specific issues. On many of them, he's

polling in the 30s. He's underwater on his supposedly strongest issue of immigration, too.

And on top of that, a number of his most traumatic moments recently seemed to have flopped for him,

from the effort to fire comedian Jimmy Kimmel to the indictment of former FBI director Jim Comey.

Laxha Jane, the co-founder of the data firm split ticket and head of political data at the argument,

has been making the case that Trump isn't

actually in such a strong position right now politically. So we're going to talk about how the

heck we can get this basic political fact that Trump is very unpopular, more broadly understood.

Lakshak, good to have you on. Hey, thanks for having me. So I'm just going to start with some numbers.

The new Quinnipiac poll has Trump's approval at an abysmal 38% while 54% disapprove.

New Associated Press poll has them at 39% approving to 60% disapproving.

The new Gallup poll has them at 40% to 56%. Reuters has them at 41%. And the new

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