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A group calling themselves "Tuesdays with Toomey" gather to protest outside Sen. Pat Toomey's (R-Penn.) office on Tuesday to protest President Trump's policies and his assertion that negative polls are "fake news."

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On Monday, President Donald Trump declared on Twitter that

Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 6, 2017

It looks like the President has another "fake news" poll to contend with: In Gallup's

on Monday, Trump received a 54 percent disapproval rating on his performance so far as president. The poll, which averages the results over the previous three days, gave him a 42 percent approval rating.

Compare that to Inauguration Day, when poll responders were evenly split on Trump's performance at 45 percent each.

Gallup's numbers are based on telephone calls to 1,500 adults across the nation. It has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.

-- Grant Butler

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