Per a Goucher University poll published in this morning's Baltimore Sun, Trump remains extremely unpopular in Maryland, which last November voted 60.5% for Clinton and 35% for Trump. According to the poll, 29% of Marylanders support Trump, while 64% of Marylanders disapprove of the job he has done so far. According to the Sarah T. Hughes Field Politics Center at Goucher College, which conducted the poll:
What’s clear is that Trump still has appeal with his base, but what’s damaging him — and it’s crystal clear in a state like Maryland — is that he has not been able to reach out and garner support from outside his core base. Things really haven’t changed.
The Baltimore Sun requested comment from the White House, which did not respond to the request.
While the Sun did not publish a county by county breakdown of the poll, I should point out that, despite Clinton’s 25% point victory over Trump statewide, 17 of Maryland’s 24 counties voted for Trump. Basically, the DC-Baltimore area, including the inner suburbs and Howard County in between, voted overwhelmingly for Clinton, while Trump ran up landslide victories in 15 counties in the rest of the state, with Clinton narrowly (1,500 votes) carrying Anne Arundel County bordering Baltimore City on the north and including Annapolis, while Trump scored narrow victories in Frederick County and Kent County, which contains Washington College, on the Eastern Shore. In other words, notwithstanding the poll results, Maryland, as does much of the country, remains divided between its urban and rural parts.
The poll had a margin of error of 3.5%