Trump approval rating holds steady in post-Mueller poll

President Trump’s approval rating has held steady in the days following the release of conclusions from special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe that said he found no evidence of a conspiracy between Moscow and the president’s campaign in the 2016 election.

A Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released exclusively to The Hill showed that 45 percent of U.S. voters approve of the job Trump is doing in the Oval Office, virtually unchanged from a similar poll conducted last month. Fifty-five percent of respondents said they disapprove.

Trump has taken a victory lap since Attorney General William Barr released a summary of Mueller’s report. Barr in a four-page letter to Congress also said he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein did not find evidence to bring a charge of obstruction of justice against Trump.Slightly more than half of the new pool’s  respondents – 54 percent – said that Mueller’s conclusion does not affect their support for Trump, while 22 percent said that the conclusion makes them less likely to back the president.

Twenty-four percent said they are now more likely to support him, according to the poll.

Trump gets his highest marks for stimulating jobs, with 57 percent approval, according to the survey. Likewise, his handling of the economy gets 57 percent approval.