A new Associated Press poll released today found after months of media and GOP establishment attacks a majority of Americans overwhelmingly view Trump negatively.

Seven in 10 people, including close to half of Republican voters, have an unfavorable view of Donald Trump.

Six in 10 people have an unfavorable view of Ted Cruz even though the liberal media has not started its campaign of destruction against the Texas senator.

Grandma Hillary has a 55% unfavorable rating.

Trump is wildly popular with Middle Class voters but that doesn’t impress the Beltway elites.

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Ronald Reagan’s favorable rating was also at 30% back in March 1980.

The GOP elites at the time also worried he could never win.

Favorable/Unfavorable irrelevant. At this pt in 1980, Reagan had LOWEST favorable- only 30% https://t.co/lks5SkvDOC https://t.co/ixnajVgaQh — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) April 3, 2016

The elites also worried about Ronald Reagan’s chances back in March 1980.

The CSMonitor reported, via Free Republic:

The nation’s Republicans are working against the clock to answer two key questions: Can conservative Ronald Reagan possibly attract enough independent and Democratic votes to win in November? An if he is likely to lose, has former President Gerald Ford time enough to challenge him for the GOP nomination? The consensus among political experts is that time has probably already run out for Gerald Ford, though he still appears the stronger choice to beat Jimmy Carter in November. But some experts caution: Don’t count Ronald Reagan out as a national candidate for the fall. He is not, they say, “a McGovern or a Goldwater” — fringe candidates who led their parties to one-sided defeats in 1972 and 1964. Intellectuals don’t want to take him seriously, but he does well with working-class voters. He would take the West, challenge President Carter in the South, and do well in the pivotal Midwest states like Ohio and Illinois, whose southern regions titled toward Carter in 1976, they say.

Back in March 1980 the establishment said the same thing about Ronald Reagan.

They said he could never defeat Jimmy Carter.

He was too divisive.

Reagan trailed Carter by 15 points in February-March 1980.