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HPU Poll Shows High Levels Of Disapproval

Image courtesy of High Point University Survey Research Center

A new High Point University poll finds widespread dissatisfaction with major elected officials. 

North Carolina will have a high-profile election next year with a presidential, senate and governor's seat on the ballot. High Point's poll shows some potential risks for incumbents.

President Donald Trump's approval rating was 42 percent, but half the North Carolinians surveyed said they disapproved of the job Trump is doing.

Gov. Roy Cooper's approval wasn't much higher (43 percent), but more people favored the job he's doing than disapproved. 

Senator Thom Tillis had the lowest approval rating at 27 percent. Democrats consider him vulnerable in next year's election, and he also faces a GOP primary challenge from businessman Garland Tucker III.

North Carolinians continued to hold the US Congress in low regard, with an approval rating of only 19 percent.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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