Dawn.Com, New York :Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s ratings have plunged to an unequalled low and he may lose election to a Democratic nominee in November, according to pollsters.On Friday, Trump was ridiculed by President Barack Obama over his position on nuclear weapons. He has recently said that countries like Japan and South Korea should be allowed to have their own nuclear weapons. His position on abortion calling for punishing women who have the procedure even to save their own lives has landed him in a heap of trouble.A report in the Los Angeles Times said among scores of major political figures measured in polls over the last 30 years, Trump’s numbers were the worst.If Trump were to win the Republican presidential nomination with his current public image, he would be the most unpopular nominee in the history of US opinion surveys.The share of Americans with an unfavourable view of Trump is extraordinary: 68 per cent in the most recent Bloomberg poll, 67pc in the CNN/ORC survey, 67pc in the ABC/Washington Post poll, 65pc from Gallup. The 57pc unfavourable rating he received in the most recent CBS/New York Times survey looks mild by comparison.Former vice president Dick Cheney briefly hit a 60pc unfavourable rating during the closing years of the George W. Bush administration. Newt Gingrich’s unpopularity exceeded 60pc briefly during his unsuccessful run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.With popularity ratings in general so low, it is quite likely Donald Trump will lose Republican nomination to one of his rivals, Senator Ted Cruz or Governor John Kasich. Meanwhile, republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump predicted that the United States is on course for a “very massive recession,” warning that a combination of high unemployment and an overvalued stock market had set the stage for another economic slump.”I think we’re sitting on an economic bubble. A financial bubble,” the billionaire businessman said in an interview with The Washington Post published on Saturday.Coming off a tough week on the campaign trail in which he made a series of missteps, Trump’s latest comments bring him back into the limelight ahead of Tuesday’s important primary in Wisconsin where he trails in the polls. The former reality TV star said that the real US jobless figure is much higher than five percent number released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. “We’re not at 5 percent unemployment,” Trump said.”We’re at a number that’s probably into the twenties if you look at the real number,” he said, adding that the official jobless figure is “statistically devised to make politicians – and in particular presidents – look good.”Trump said “it’s a terrible time right now” to invest in the stock market, offering a more bleak view of the US economy than that held by many mainstream economists.The interview was bylined by the Post’s Robert Costa and famed Watergate reporter Bob Woodward.A real estate magnate, Trump has made appealing to blue-collar workers a hallmark of his bid for the Republican nomination for the Nov. 8 presidential election, often blaming unemployment on the outsourcing of US jobs and facilities to countries such as China and Mexico.
