President Donald Trump (AP)

Troubling news continues to rise out of the various investigations of President Donald Trump. The latest bombshell is BuzzFeed News' report this week that the president suborned perjury and that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has wide-ranging evidence of it.

The report, if accurate, would likely lead to Trump's impeachment in the House of Representatives. But his removal from office would remain a long-shot, as Republicans in the Senate show no sign of abandoning the president. (Special counsel Robert Mueller's office released a statement Friday raising questions about the Buzzfeed report.)

Trump maintains that the special-counsel investigation is a "witch hunt" and that reporting about it constitutes "fake news." Friday morning he tweeted that Michael Cohen, the lawyer he reportedly instructed to lie to Congress, is now "Lying to reduce his jail time!"

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Michael Cohen (AP)

Taking this response into account, it appears that Trump's plan to run for re-election next year is going full-speed ahead.

How confident should the president be that he can win another term, assuming the renewed impeachment talk goes nowhere? A new survey by Marist Poll, PBS NewsHour and NPR, completed before the BuzzFeed report landed, suggests he will face an uphill climb -- a climb so steep that one might conclude he shouldn't even bother trying.

But the thing is, it's not unusual for Americans to express dissatisfaction with the job their president is doing. Eight years ago, they gave President Barack Obama a better chance of re-election than they're giving Trump now -- but not by much. (Obama did, of course, win re-election in 2012.)

Providing further proof that partisanship is entrenched deep in the country's marrow, the poll's percentages for other questions about national politics also haven't changed much since 2011, despite the different cast of characters and significantly changed circumstances.

Read on for the latest poll numbers and comparisons to the Obama years.

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January 2019: "Thinking about the 2020 election, do you definitely plan to vote for Donald Trump for re-election as president or do you definitely plan to vote against him?"

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Definitely vote for Trump:

30 percent

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Definitely vote against Trump:

57 percent

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Unsure:

13 percent

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April 2011: "Thinking about the 2012 election, do you definitely plan to vote for Barack Obama for re-election as president or do you definitely plan to vote against him?"

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Definitely vote for Obama:

37 percent

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Definitely vote against Obama:

44 percent

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Unsure:

18 percent

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January 2019: "Do you approve or disapprove of the job the Democrats in Congress are doing in office?"

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Approve:

34 percent

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Disapprove:

53 percent

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Unsure:

14 percent

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April 2011: "Do you approve or disapprove of the job the Democrats in Congress are doing in office?"

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Approve:

34 percent

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Disapprove:

60 percent

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Unsure:

6 percent

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January 2019: "Do you approve or disapprove of the job the Republicans in Congress are doing in office?"

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Approve:

29 percent

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Disapprove:

58 percent

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Unsure:

13 percent

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April 2011: "Do you approve or disapprove of the job the Republicans in Congress are doing in office?"

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Approve:

30 percent

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Disapprove:

63 percent

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Unsure:

7 percent

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January 2019: "Do you approve or disapprove of the job Donald Trump is doing as president?"

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Strongly approve:

24 percent

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Approve:

14 percent

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Disapprove:

9 percent

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Strongly disapprove:

45 percent

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Unsure:

8 percent

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January 2019: "Do you approve or disapprove of the job Donald Trump is doing as president?" (cont.)

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Strongly approve:

Democrat: 3 percent

Republican: 62 percent

Independent: 24 percent

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Approve:

Democrat: 4 percent

Republican: 21 percent

Independent: 13 percent

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Disapprove:

Democrat: 6 percent

Republican: 4 percent

Independent: 13 percent

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Strongly disapprove:

Democrat: 82 percent

Republican: 6 percent

Independent: 44 percent

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Unsure:

Democrat: 5 percent

Republican: 7 percent

Independent: 6 percent

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Marist Poll surveyed 1,023 adults from January 10 through January 13. The margin of error is 3.8 percentage points. Read the complete poll and find out more about its methodology.

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-- Douglas Perry

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