{"id":8469,"date":"2026-04-04T08:25:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/8469\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T08:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:25:52","slug":"donald-trump-just-saved-mette-frederiksen-from-electoral-oblivion-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/8469\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump just saved Mette Frederiksen from electoral oblivion \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frederiksen, whose approval rating plummeted from 79 percent in 2020 to 34 percent in a December YouGov poll, rejected speculation that she would resign following the disastrous local elections in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey really had a bad election,\u201d Rasmussen said, but added the government has since moved to address voters\u2019 concerns on the cost of living with the food voucher scheme.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s important because Frederiksen\u2019s Greenland boost in the polls won\u2019t last forever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s just going to sort of disappear overnight, but you can imagine that as some of the national issues again become more prominent on the agenda, people are going to base their judgments more on them when they think about who to vote for,\u201d Rasmussen said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2257063866-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7844121\"  \/>Frederiksen, who has been in power since 2019, has mounted a spirited diplomatic defense of the Arctic island, successfully repelling Trump\u2019s advances for now. | Sean Gallup\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Rune Stubager, a professor of political science at the University of Aarhus, agreed that the Greenland crisis had caused \u201ckind of a rallying effect,\u201d but added \u201conce the pressure subsides, I would, however, expect the government to drop again as attention would then turn to domestic issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stine Bosse, a Danish MEP and member of the Moderates, said Frederiksen and the government\u2019s handling of transatlantic tensions over Greenland would stand them in good stead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is probably the most difficult foreign policy situation Denmark has faced in many years, and the government has handled it in the best possible way,\u201d said Bosse. \u201cThey have kept a cool head, a warm heart, and demonstrated a high level of professionalism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frederiksen, whose approval rating plummeted from 79 percent in 2020 to 34 percent in a December YouGov poll,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[4115,382,12,1065,1103,1099,373,2810,1750,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-8469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mette-frederiksen","8":"tag-arctic-ocean","9":"tag-denmark","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-elections-in-europe","13":"tag-greenland","14":"tag-mette-frederiksen","15":"tag-u-s-foreign-policy","16":"tag-u-s-politics","17":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116345489614728434","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}