Trump’s Approval Ratings Tick Up In Southern States

NBC News reports:

President Donald Trump’s approval ratings in the South have ticked upward, with 54 percent of voters giving a thumbs-up to the way he’s handling his job, according to a new NBC News|SurveyMonkey online poll.

The survey of voters in 11 southern states found 38 percent said they “strongly approve” of the way Trump’s handling his job, and 16 percent who said they “somewhat approve.” That’s up slightly from a poll in September of last year, which put his total approval at 52 percent.

The polling was conducted between July 2 and July 16, so much of it was completed before Trump’s tweets on July 14 calling for four Democratic congresswomen to “go back” to the “totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”