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		</div><p>Most Americans disapprove of Donald Trump&#8217;s overall performance two months into his presidency. But they are more upbeat about at least one critical area: his handling of the economy.</p>
<p>Nearly six in 10 Americans disapprove of Mr Trump&#8217;s overall performance, and about the same percentage say the country is heading in the wrong direction, according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research carried out amid the collapse of the Republican party&#8217;s healthcare overhaul.</p>
<p>But the poll also found a brighter spot for the businessman-politician on the economy, often a major driver of presidential success or failure. There, Americans were almost evenly split, with 50% approving and 48% disapproving of Mr Trump&#8217;s efforts.</p>
<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s driving the car off the cliff in every other kind of policy and executive action he&#8217;s trying to push through, but (not) the economy,&#8221; said Ryan Mills, a 27-year-old tobacco company chemist from Greensboro, North Carolina.</p>
<p>Overall, just 42% of Americans approve and 58% disapprove of the job Mr Trump is doing as president &#8211; an unusually poor rating by historical standards for a still-young administration.</p>
<p>By contrast, at this point in their presidencies, Barack Obama&#8217;s approval rating was above 60% in Gallup polling and George W Bush&#8217;s was above 50%. Gallup&#8217;s own measure of Mr Trump&#8217;s approval has dipped below 40%.</p>
<p>Mr Trump has suffered defeats in the federal courts, which twice temporarily halted his travel ban on some foreigners, and in Congress, where discord among Republicans has stymied legislation to up-end Mr Obama&#8217;s signature health care law.</p>
<p>The FBI, along with Congress, is probing Russia&#8217;s meddling in the 2016 election and any possible co-ordination with the Trump campaign.</p>
<p>The president has responded in public with belligerent tweets often blaming the media, Democrats, conservative Republicans and others.</p>
<p>The AP-NORC poll did show Republicans are still far more likely to approve than disapprove of Mr Trump &#8211; a fifth of GOP respondents said they do not approve of his performance.<br />
Among independents, six in 10 disapprove.</p>
<p>Notably, whites &#8211; who formed an important chunk of Mr Trump&#8217;s political base during the election &#8211; divide about evenly on the approval question, with 53% approving and 47% disapproving.<br />
But there are signs in the poll that Mr Trump&#8217;s base is holding and that people are willing to give him a chance on the still-strong economy.</p>
<p>Fifty-eight percent of whites without a college degree &#8211; who were especially likely to vote for Mr Trump &#8211; approve of the job he is doing overall. Nearly 20% of those who disapprove of Mr Trump&#8217;s overall performance still approve of how he is handling the economy.</p>
<p>And most Americans &#8211; 56% &#8211; describe the national economy as good, while 43% describe it as poor. About a year ago, in April 2016, just 42% of Americans described the economy as good in another AP-NORC poll. The current majority extends across party lines, with 63% of Republicans, 54% of independents and 53% of Democrats describing the national economy as good.</p>
<p>Trump voter Joshlyn Smith, a law enforcement officer from Riverside County, California, said the president needs to move past &#8220;the Twitter stuff&#8221; that often mires him in social media spats &#8211; and focus instead on the nation&#8217;s policy.</p>
<p>&#8220;I feel like I want to give him a fair shot, especially in terms of helping on taxes and the economy. On a personal level, I think he&#8217;s too involved with how he&#8217;s portrayed in the media. I want him to have a little bit tougher skin.&#8221;</p>
<p>The approval ratings of many presidents through history are linked to the economy, with several &#8211; including Harry Truman, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Mr Obama &#8211; suffering politically for downturns during their first year in the White House, according to a project by the Miller Center at The University of Virginia.</p>
<p>Mr Trump inherited a strong economy, which might be leading people to give him a chance to maintain it, said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the Miller Center.</p>
<p>&#8220;It starts with how they&#8217;re feeling about their pocketbooks and their family budget,&#8221; she said. For presidents, &#8220;if you can keep the economy going well and having people feel good about (it), good about their lives and therefore good about the country, that can cover a multitude of sins.&#8221;</p>
<p>The poll, conducted over five days preceding and following last Friday&#8217;s collapse of the GOP healthcare bill, suggests the political damage could be hard for Mr Trump to leave behind even if the economy stays strong.</p>
<p>It was a galling setback for the president and the Republicans who control Congress. Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin cancelled a House vote that would have spelled defeat for the legislation because too many Republicans opposed it.</p>
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