President Donald Trump attacked new polls from ABC and NBC as fake news and "totally wrong in general" Monday morning (April 24), only 12 hours after saying new polls were "very good considering that much of the media is FAKE and almost always negative" and quoting stats from an ABC News/Washington Post poll, in which 53% of respondents said he was a strong leader

He also continued to maintain he would have won the popular vote, a curious claim that surfaces periodically, tweeting the assertion "Would still beat Hillary in popular vote," though it was unclear what he meant since Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton won the popular vote by several million.

An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday (April 23) found that 54% disapproved of the job President Trump is doing, compared with 40% who approved. The poll found that 82% of Republicans approved of his job performance to date (he marks his first 100 days in office April 29), while only 30% of Independents and just 7% of Democrats approved.

Only 50% of respondents in the NBC/WSJ poll gave Trump high marks for being firm and decisive, down from 57% in a February poll. He got "honest and trustworthy" high marks from only 25%, down from 34% in February.

The poll was conducted April 17-20 among 900 adults. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.

The ABC/WaPo poll found that 42% approved of Trump's performance as president vs. 53% who disapproved, compared with an average approval/disapproval split of 69%/19% for past presidents in the first 100-days window.

Just 37% approve of Trump's plans for changes in federal spending --which include cuts to the EPA and state funding as well as zeroing out federal funding for noncommercial TV and radio stations, among others. And only 34% approved of his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner having major posts in the administration.

But the poll had some "brighter" spots for the president, finding that 73% approved of his pressuring companies to stay in the U.S., and the 53% who said he was a strong leader. In addition, 96% of Republicans who voted for Trump said they would do it again, so there was no buyer's remorse, as the poll put it.

The ABC/WaPo poll was conducted April 17-20, in English and Spanish, among a random sample of 1,004 adults. The margin of error is 3.5 points.

WASHINGTON  — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is holding on to her six point lead (47% to 41%) over Republican Donald Trump despite the announcement by Federal Bureau of Investigations director James Comey last week that the agency was looking into more emails that could be "pertinent" to the investigation of the private email server Clinton used while she was Secretary of State.

That is according to the latest NBC News/Survey Monkey tracking poll.

That comes despite the finding that 55% of respondents to the poll of likely voters said her alleged mishandling of classified email was an important issue. Forty-four percent said it is more of a distraction.

The survey was conducted online Oct. 24-30 among a national sample of 40,816 likely voters.

WASHINGTON — While Donald Trump has been criticizing the media for reporting on statements he made about groping women, more (49%) of Republican presidential candidate’s supporters say the news media should emphasize a candidate's "offensive statements" than say they shouldn’t (45%).

Supporters of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, who’ve been having a field day with Trump’s comments, were even more enthusiastic about reporting offensive comments: 72% of Clinton supporters who responded to a Pew Research Center survey said such comments should be reported, while only 26% said they should not.

Of course, it’s up to individuals to decide which remarks they conclude are offensive and deserve calling out.

Pew’s survey polled 3,616 registered voters (1,396 were Trump reporters and 1,775 were Clinton supporters) from Sept. 27-Oct. 10. The margin of error for the Trump supporters was 4.7 percentage points and for Clinton fans, 4.2 percentage points.

Respondents were also overwhelmingly in favor of the media calling out candidates for false statements. More than four out of five Clinton supporters (83%) said that the media should "emphasize inaccurate statements," while only 16% said they should not. Almost as many Trump supporters (71%) said they should call out inaccuracies, while 25% said no.

On that subject, the majority (53%) of Trump supporters said it is a major responsibility of the news media to fact-check candidates, while only 24% said that is a minor responsibility and 10% said it’s not their responsibility at all.