Sixty-nine percent of the respondents to a University of Rhode Island poll approve of the way Gov. PROVIDENCE — Gov. Matt Bevin of Kentucky may have a … Gina Marie Raimondo (/ r ə ˈ m ɒ n d oʊ /; born May 17, 1971) is an American politician and venture capitalist serving, since 2015, as the 75th governor of Rhode Island.A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first woman to serve as governor of Rhode Island. What was said of him is true of her: There is a high ratio of mind to mass. The Senate, the incubator of presidential aspirations, is an arena for the gesture politics of virtue signaling. Raimondo has found herself underwater in Morning Consult’s quarterly polls since the second quarter of 2017, but she still managed to easily win re-election in 2018. Bill, her father, the son of a meat cutter, became the first in the family to go to college, and his daughter has delivered tuition-free community college. Gina Raimondo has signed the newly approved $12.7-billion state government budget for the fiscal year that began on July 1. Her reforms — pausing cost-of-living increases, raising the retirement age and the ratio of defined-contribution to defined-benefit plans — passed Rhode Island’s House 57 to 15 and the Senate 35 to 2. Morning Consult surveyed more than 5,000 registered voters across the country between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31 using an online questionnaire. Ned Lamont, left, had a 32 percent approval rating according to a Morning Consult survey released this week. In WPRI-TV and Roger Williams University’s first survey of the cycle, Raimondo’s job approval rating has dropped to 37% after months of stagnant economic growth, bottom ten business rankings, and disturbing scandals that have plagued her administration. Unfortunately, a perversity of today’s political culture is that those with the most time and inclination for full-time self-promotion, such as U.S. senators, eclipse those, such as governors, who are preoccupied with serious responsibilities. When she ran for governor, Rhode Island had the nation’s highest unemployment rate. A survey from the COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States pegged Raimondo’s approval rating at 61 percent in … The latest Morning Consult survey shows Raimondo’s approval rating has fallen to 39 percent, while 50 percent of voters now disapprove of her job performance. Read more from George F. Will’s archive or follow him on Facebook. Her approval rating has soared during the pandemic. Before her election, she served as general treasurer of Rhode Island from 2011 to 2015 and was the second woman to hold the office. A recurring Morning Consult poll measures the approval ratings of governors in all 50 states on a quarterly basis. All three men are Republicans. Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo has an approval rating of 43% in the latest ranking released Tuesday by Morning Consult. Gina Raimondo. Gina Raimondo (D-R.I.) just won re-election in November, easing the pain of a 49 percent disapproval rating among voters in her state, but Gov. Gina Raimondo should be in an ideal spot for reelection right now. The most important news stories of the day, curated by Post editors and delivered every morning. Raimondo has cut taxes every year and removed 8,000 pages of regulations — 30 percent of the state’s regulations. Gina Raimondo’s approach to battling the coronavirus pandemic is winning high marks from voters in a new poll. Gina Raimondo of Rhode Island, Ned Lamont of Connecticut and Janet Mills of Maine were in the bottom 10, though Raimondo was displaced as the … At 35 percent, this is the lowest her job approval rating has ever been. Combined, Raimondo is scoring just 30.5 percent approval of her performance after 16 months in office. She’s number three. After Harvard (where she played rugby), Oxford (she was a Rhodes scholar) and Yale Law School, she was an early recruit to a venture capital company whose premise was, she says, that “you could find talent all over the country,” not just in hotbeds such as Austin and Silicon Valley. The state had been the nation’s — arguably, the world’s — jewelry workshop, until much of the manufacturing decamped to China. (AP Photo/Steven Senne). Connecticut Gov. She has done this by entrepreneurial federalism — making the state attractive to business, including the nation’s first offshore wind farm. Then the Governor decided to go in a very different direction, pushing a rushed reopening. And because she had the impertinence to persuade crucial Democratic constituencies — public employees unions, including those of teachers — to support difficult choices. Enter Michael Flynn. The approval rating for Congress was split nearly evenly three ways between those who approved, disapproved, or were unsure. And the resulting administration would restore adult supervision in Washington. It encourages the misapprehension that striking poses solves problems, and it develops no skills germane to the executive tasks of managing vast organizations and applying aspirational statutes to recalcitrant reality. Then she founded an affiliated fund specializing in health care. Thousands expected at Black Lives Matter rally Saturday with Dr. Scott. Gina Raimondo is doing an excellent or good job leading the state's coronavirus response. Both Lamont and Raimondo were underwater by 20 points in a Morning Consult poll in December, but a Bryant poll in April put Raimondo at 81% approval, while a … In Rhode Island, the results had a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points. Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo is no longer the least popular governor in the country, In better news for Rhode Island, US Senator Jack Reed registered as the eighth-most popular Senator, according to a poll released Thursday by Morning Consult. Gina Raimondo is the nation’s shortest governor. An anxious nation longing for competence in the national government might turn its lonely eyes to her, if it knew of her. A dubious distinction for Rhode Island Gov. After a hiatus of months, the House and the Senate met last week to approve the biggest spending bill the state has ever seen to pay for both first-of-their kind pandemic expenses and the routine, day-to-day operation of state government. PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Gov. Economic dynamism has enabled her to raise the state minimum wage to $11.50, create a sick-leave entitlement and finance the largest infrastructure program in the state’s history. Bryant University said a recent poll found 81% of respondents think Gov. The second-term Democrat had a job approval rating of 35 percent and a disapproval rating of 55 percent, slightly better than Hawaii Governor David Ige, a Democrat, and former Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin, a Republican who left office in December. While his approval has risen, Bevin's net approval is still at -20. The 10 most popular governors in the poll are all Republicans. An earlier version of this column incorrectly reported that Rhode Island Gov. “My mother actually started crying” when, in 2010, Raimondo ran to be treasurer of the state with the nation’s highest per capita unfunded pension debt. Michelle Lujan Grisham is 4 feet 11 inches tall. July 16, 2020 black lives matter. Kim Reynolds (R-IA) 44% 17% 39%. Read the latest edition of the 2020 Post Pundit Power Ranking. The poll was designed by … A Biden-Raimondo ticket would achieve the left’s primary goal, the removal of President Trump. During this pandemic, the state has seen the approval rating of Governor Gina Raimondo skyrocket to a high of 76% in large part due to her empathy for people and… 0 Comments. Raimondo emerged from the pension battle with a whopping 58 percent approval rating— 36 points better than the rating of the state’s current governor, Lincoln Chafee. And his choice will indicate whether the trajectory of the world’s oldest party will be determined by its left-wing minority that strenuously opposed his nomination, or by the party’s temperate majority, which produced the Democrats’ 2018 success. The Microsoft News Poll found 76% of … Gov. An … Rhode Island Gov. Rhode Island’s Gina Raimondo is almost 5 feet 3 inches, about an inch shorter than James Madison. On the other end of the spectrum, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker lost his spot atop the gubernatorial rankings, finishing third behind Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon and Maryland Governor Larry Hogan. Dan McGowan can be reached at dan.mcgowan@globe.com. Most Rhode Islanders believe she is … By signing up you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, Columnist covering politics and domestic and foreign affairs, Where Republicans in Congress stand on Trump’s false claim of winning the election. She wears a Bulova on her wrist but says the main reason she ran for governor was that previous administrations had not repositioned Rhode Island for a changed world. Gina Raimondo has led the state during the coronavirus pandemic, according to URI. The exodus included the Bulova watch company, which had employed 1,000, including her father, who became unemployed at 56. Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont and Oregon Governor Kate Brown, both Democrats, rounded out the bottom five on Morning Consult’s list. Gina Marie Raimondo (/ r ə ˈ m ɒ n d oʊ /; born May 17, 1971) is an American politician and venture capitalist serving, since 2015, as the 75th governor of Rhode Island.A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first woman to serve as governor of Rhode Island. In better news for Rhode Island, US Senator Jack Reed registered as the eighth-most popular Senator in the Morning Consult poll. This page serves as a hub for these approval ratings, including historical ratings dating to the poll's inception in 2015. Gina Raimondo. PROVIDENCE – She’s number three. Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo is no longer the least popular governor in the country, according to a poll released Thursday by Morning Consult. The Democratic left, with its addiction to indignation and its aversion to practical politics, might recoil from Raimondo because she understands the enormous financial sector of a nation now chin-deep in red ink. Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo had an approval rating of 43% in the latest ranking released Tuesday by Morning Consult. The list of "Most and Least Popular Governors" saw Massachusetts' Charlie Baker take the top spot for approval nationwide at 71% -- and Raimondo come in fifth in New England, with struggling Connecticut's Dan Molloy at 27%, who Morning Consult noted … With her administration plagued by reports of scandal, lackluster economic growth, and a chronic lack of transparency, Democrat Governor Gina Raimondo’s approval rating continues to plummet, damaging her chances of re-election. NEW ORLEANS — Rhode Island Gov. As state treasurer, she told “crowded, angry union halls” that cities and towns might go bankrupt and that promised pensions would disappear. Fred Hiatt: One governor bucking the bipartisan tradition of passing the buck, Paul Waldman: How to think about Biden’s choice for vice president. This version has been updated. Raimondo is now the most unpopular governor in the country, according to Morning Consult, which comes out with its poll every three months. Pensions, which soon would have swallowed 20 percent of state revenue, were threatening to starve social services — including the Providence Public Library, where Raimondo’s grandfather, who, arriving from Italy at 14 with little education and less English, studied to improve his chances. US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse had an approval rating of 51 percent and disapproval rating of 31 percent. Joe Biden’s choice of a running mate will matter to the electorate’s large moderate majority more than such choices usually do, for two reasons. Raimondo won in 2014 with 40.7% of the vote. Jim Justice issued a state of emergency for West Virginia on March 16. Andy Beshear (Kentucky) - Approval rating of governor handling COVID-19 response: 81% - Approval … Gina Raimondo (D-RI) 35% 10% 55%. Biden will be 78 on Jan. 20, 2021. Jonathan Capehart: Biden needs a black woman as his vice president, Fred Hiatt: Rhode Island’s Gina Raimondo navigates pension reform, Top Republicans offer conflicting messages about Trump’s loss while campaigning in Georgia, McConnell breaks with Trump in finally recognizing Biden as the new president, Georgia Senate runoffs: What you need to know, Graphic: Where Republicans in Congress stand on Trump’s false claim of winning the election, Election results under attack: Here are the facts. Her approval rating has soared during the pandemic. Three days after closing public schools as a precautionary measure, Gov. The Rhode Island governor is a Democrat and a woman in a year when Democrats and women candidates are expected to do well. U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, right, had an approval rating … Rhode Island got glowing coverage in the national press, Raimondo’s approval ratings on her handling of the COVID crisis were very high, and she basked in the glow of popularity and public praise. Raimondo has found herself underwater in Morning Consult’s quarterly polls since the second quarter of 2017, but she still managed to easily win re-election in 2018. George F. Will: Our plea bargain system can make the innocent admit guilt. Thanks to the G.I. On September 12, 2018, incumbent governor Gina Raimondo and Cranston mayor and 2014 gubernatorial nominee Allan Fung won the Democratic and Republican primaries respectively, facing each other in a rematch of the 2014 election. Rhode Island’s Gina Raimondo is almost 5 feet 3 inches, about an inch shorter than James Madison. Raimondo, meanwhile, has an approval rating of 36%, and 56% disapprove of her, the poll found. Follow him on Twitter at @danmcgowan. There often is, however, a disproportion in the allocation of media attention to political figures: an inverse relationship between a political person’s substantive achievements and the froth of publicity surrounding her or him. Before her election, she served as general treasurer of Rhode Island from 2011 to 2015 and was the second woman to hold the office. This computer crash created a backlog of over 20,000 cases. A widely-criticized rollout of a new computer network system for the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services dubbed the "Unified Health Infrastructure Project" (UHIP) in September 2016 saw scores of people without access to government programs such as food stamps and child care due to glitches in the software, designed by Deloitte. Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo is now America's least popular governor with a 56% disapproval and 36% approval rating. New Mexico Gov. Partnering with CVS, the nation’s largest pharmacy chain, headquartered in Woonsocket, her state has achieved one of the nation’s highest per capita levels of testing for covid-19. The smallest state has a small governor. The survey was conducted from July through September. Ned Lamont has an even lower approval rating of 35%, but only 48% of voters disapprove of him. He posted an approval rating of 53 percent and disapproval rating of 24 percent. After defeating a left-wing primary challenger by 24 points, she was resoundingly reelected in one of the nation’s bluest states, and then became chair of the Democratic Governors Association. 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