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HAYES: “And he did manage to win the popular vote, unlike in 2016. It’s the first time in three tries, but all of a sudden after that victory, the conventional wisdom quickly congealed that America was Trump country, that he was a political colossus. Remember, the guy won by about a point and a half. Hardly a landslide. He was inaugurated with basically the highest approval rating that he has ever had, which also happened to be the second lowest approval rating ever for a new president, topped only by himself the first time around. He has never been very popular, and his approval rating has only gone down since. Nate Silver tracks the average over on his substack. Full disclosure some of the graphs on that site are really difficult to show on TV. They require lots of explanation. This ain’t one of them. See that there? You can see what that’s doing. The line just keeps going down. Even Fox News has no choice but to face this reality.”