More than half of Americans said President Donald Trump is leading the country in the wrong direction.
According to a poll released on the 23rd (local time) by National Public Radio (NPR), 55% of respondents said "President Trump is changing America for the worse." That is up 13 percentage points from the same point early in Trump's first term.
In particular, 60% of respondents said the United States has gotten worse compared with a year ago, and 53% said the president's policies have had a negative impact on them. As many as 78% said American democracy is under serious threat.
Evaluations of the president's job performance diverged sharply by party affiliation. While 90% of Democratic supporters said "America is worse than a year ago," 82% of Republican supporters said "the situation has improved."
However, concern about democracy was broadly high regardless of party. Ninety-one percent of Democrats, 80% of independents, and 61% of Republicans said they feel a serious threat to the future of democracy.
The poll was conducted by NPR, PBS, and the Marist Institute for Public Opinion from the 27th to 30th of last month among 1,462 U.S. adults.