The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 43% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty-six percent (56%) disapprove.

The latest figures include 29% who Strongly Approve of the way the president is performing and 44% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15. (see trends). 

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Congressional Republicans are very close to releasing an investigative memo that charges higher-ups at the FBI with politically motivated anti-Trump activities, and the number two official in the agency who resigned yesterday may be the memo’s first victim. By a 49% to 31% margin, voters think a special prosecutor should be named to investigate whether senior FBI officials handled the investigations of Trump and Hillary Clinton in a legal and unbiased fashion.

Sixty-six percent (66%) of Republicans – and 48% of all voters – think it’s likely that senior federal law enforcement officials broke the law in an effort to prevent Trump from winning the 2016 election.

The president is scheduled to give his annual State of the Union speech tonight. We’ll tell you at 10:30 how many voters plan to tune in.

Democrats hold an eight-point lead over Republicans on Rasmussen Reports’ Generic Congressional Ballot, but 17% of voters prefer a third-party candidate or are undecided.

Fifty-two percent (52%) still believe government and Big Business often work together in ways that hurt consumers and investors, but that’s down from a high of 70% in early 2009 just after the Wall Street meltdown.

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