Our latest reader survey looks at what CRE insiders think about the president job’s performance as he starts his fourth year in office.
By Elaine Misonzhnik and David Bodamer | National Real Estate Investor
As he starts his fourth year in office, President Trump has been impeached by the House for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The Senate impeachment trial remains in limbo as Republicans and Democrats wrangle over its terms and scope. Amid all that, NREI conducted its sixth survey gauging the commercial real estate industry’s sentiments on the president.
Overall, 48.5 percent of respondents indicated they approve of the president’s performance vs. 44.0 percent who disapprove. This approval rating was roughly in line with the last time we ran this survey, in late January/early February of 2019. After sitting below 30 percent in our first two surveys, Trump’s approval among NREI readers has ranged between 43.4 percent and 52.8 in the four subsequent tallies. Overall, Trump’s earned a net approval rating and a net disapproval rating three times each in the six times we’ve conducted our surveys. It’s been positive three of the last four times we’ve held the survey. Numbers were similar for Trump’s overall legislative agenda, with 47.0 percent approving and 43.2 percent disapproving of it.
