'Under water': MSNBC's Rachel Maddow warns GOP poll numbers 'dropping like a stone'

MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow concluded her opening monologue Thursday night by answering her own question, "How does the American population feel about how things are turning out with Donald Trump being back in the White House?"

"New polling from Gallup just out today shows that there's no issue in which the American people like what Donald Trump is doing," she concluded, noting his "disapproval ratings higher than his approval ratings on everything."

On his handling of the economy, Trump is 18 points "under water," Maddow said, and 19 points under water on his relations with Russia.

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"He's underwater on his handling of the federal budget, energy policy, on foreign affairs, on the Ukraine war, on the environment. On even his relations with the dreaded news media!" she exclaimed. "He is under water on every single thing."

To boot, she stressed that the president's approval rating in ruby-red Texas has dropped 15 points since the election.

"He is now under water, specifically in Texas and dropping like a stone," she declared.

Maddow then took a moment to congratulate the United Nations after Trump yanked the nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY).

And she cheerily shared Trump's reasoning for pulling her nomination.

"They don't want her to leave her seat in the House," noted Maddow, reading from Trump's own social media post on his reasoning. "Because the Republican majority is so thin."

The MSNBC host noted that if they'd continued with Stefanik's nomination, the GOP would simply have to win an election in the same district to avoid impacting the House GOP's narrow majority.

"But you wanna know why they pulled that nomination today?" she asked viewers. "They pulled that nomination today, clearly, because they were worried another Republican would not replace Elise Stafanik. That if they had to hold an election for that seat, they were worried that they were going to lose it. And that a Democrat was going to flip that seat."

Stafanik, Maddow emphasized, won the seat in November by a whopping 24 points.

"Twenty-four points. Right now, with what Trump is doing as president, right now with how the Republicans are performing with Trump as president, right now 24 points is not a comfortable enough margin for Republicans given how hard the country is swinging back against them."

She concluded: "Twenty-four points in November looks like it might be a blue seat right about now."

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