Credit: Morning Consult

President Donald Trump’s ability to withstand scandals that would seemingly bring down other politicians is well-established, and his first two months in office have shown the outrage-a-week rhythm of the campaign will continue.

The scandals, real or imagined, produce hours of coverage and plenty of Twitter traffic. But do they register with the American public? Or is “Teflon Don” truly impervious to the rules the punditry said applied to politicians?

To test this, we asked voters whether scandalous events from Trump’s first two months in office gave them a more or less favorable view of the president. We found that after each of the seven events we tested, from the size of the inaugural crowds to Russia, a plurality of voters had a more negative view of the president.

But the opposite is true when you look just at people who voted for Trump. In five out of seven cases, a plurality of Trump voters say these ‘scandals’ gave them a more favorable view of the president. For the […]