Even though some White House policies are popular, policy is but one leg of the three-legged stool of political leadership. Rhetoric also matters. So, too, does implementation, especially at the executive level. Without its full complement of limbs, this three-legged stool is prone to tip over and shatter. Communication about public policy is as important as the public policy itself, Jeffrey Brauer, a political scientist at Keystone College, near Scranton, Pennsylvania, told me.
The left-leaning group Third Way found Trump with only a 32 percent approval rating among young men 18-29 years old. The poll registered Trump at a 66 percent disapproval rating among young men a massive 34-point gap. The number is even more eye-catching when compared to the margin he won the 18-29 year old men by in the 2024 presidential election a resounding 14 points nationally.
The venerable public opinion firm announced Wednesday that it would no longer publish any approval or favorability ratings of any political figures, but suggested the decision has nothing to do with Trump's second-term slump. Leadership ratings have been part of Gallup's history, Justin McCarthy, a spokesman for Gallup, said in a statement. At the same time, (they) no longer represent an area where Gallup can make its most distinctive contribution.
When President Trump took office for his second term one year ago, he was - at least compared with his usual polling - relatively popular. His approval rating was above 50 percent, and he had made enormous breakthroughs among groups that have traditionally voted Democratic, like young, nonwhite and lower-turnout voters. It had some of the markings of a potential political realignment ...
The SSRS Opinion Panel survey of 1,209 adults from across the U.S. was conducted between January 9-12. Trump's approval rating landed at a soft 39%, with 61% of respondents disapproving. The result, however, was an improvement from the last survey in late October, which had a 37% to 63% approval-to-disapproval split. The October result was his highest disapproval in the history of the poll, dating back to January 2017 just surpassing the post-January 6, 2021, number of 62%.
President Trump has potentially never been less popular than he is right now, the day that 3rd quarter GDP blew by expectations at 4.3% growth, the strongest quarterly figure in two years. A recent Gallup poll taken from December 1st to the 15th pegged Trump at 36% approval, nearly his lowest Gallup figure ever, second only to a poll taken from January 4th to 15th in 2021 that had him at 34%.
Bisbal was sipping an afternoon coffee at the Hamilton Family Restaurant not long after Vice President JD Vance rallied Republicans in a nearby suburb. In the Trump administration's second high-profile trip to Pennsylvania in a week, Vance acknowledged the affordability crisis, blamed it on the Biden administration and insisted better times were ahead. He later served food to men experiencing homelessness in Allentown.
The survey, which was conducted between December 14 and 15 and measured public opinion based upon the answers provided by 1,000 registered voters, found that if they had their pick between a progressive Democrat, MAGA Republican, moderate Democrat, and moderate Republican, American would most prefer the last, followed by a moderate Democrat, then a progressive Democrat, and then a MAGA Republican.
And it left little doubt that the most important gains Trump made between his 2020 defeat and his 2024 win were not among young voters or Black voters or white working-class voters, but among Latino voters: In 2020, Joe Biden won Hispanic voters by 25 percentage points, and Hispanic voters supported Hillary Clinton by an even wider margin in 2016. But Trump drew nearly even with Kamala Harris among Hispanic voters, losing among them by only 3 points.
If you are dissatisfied, if you are not OK with what's going on, then I'm your candidate, Behn said. If you think things are fine, I am not your candidate. If you are upset with the cost and chaos, I am your candidate. We have been working to build a coalition of the disenchanted, a coalition of the pissed off, and I think it's working to our favor.
A new Reuters poll shows President Trump's approval rating falling to its lowest level, apparently because of prices and the Epstein files, Varney began, adding: His approval rating sits at 39% [should be 38%], down nine points from when he took office.
Among 1,291registered voters, 55% said they'd vote for the Democratic candidate in their Housedistrict, compared to 41% who said they'd back the Republican, according to a NPR/PBS News/Marist Poll national survey conducted last week. Another 3% said they would vote for another party's candidate, and 1% were unsure. When voters were last asked the question, back in November of last year, they were evenlydivided, 48% to 48%.
The survey of 1,443 adults, conducted from Nov. 10-13 found: Democrats holding their largest advantage, 14 points, on the question of who respondents would vote for if the midterm elections were held today; President Trump's approval rating is just 39%, his lowest since right after the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol; A combined 6-in-10 blame congressional Republicans or Trump for the government shutdown; and Nearly 6-in-10 say Trump's top priority should be lowering prices and no other issue comes close.
Under the headline, Democrats Start Their Comeback, and sub-headline, A warning for the GOP from New Jersey and Virginia on affordability and Trump's unpopularity, the Journal observed that President Trump rolled to victory in 2024 promising to reduce inflation and make middle-class life more affordable. The warning to Republicans in Tuesday's election results is that Democrats are turning the tables on affordability, especially when they steer clear of leftist cultural snares.
According to a new poll out Sunday from NBC News, the president's approval rating currently sits at 43 percent compared to 55 percent who disapprove of his job performance. That approval number represents a 4 percent drop from his standing in March. The dissatisfaction with Trump extends to the entire Republican party, the poll found. On the generic Congressional ballot, Democrats lead Republicans by a sizable 8-point margin 50-42.
Off-year elections are often a referendum on the president and his party. And this year, of course, that means President Trump and Republicans. Trump is unpopular, particularly with independents, who will be key in swing districts in next year's midterm elections. So the narratives and the margins coming out of the Nov. 4 elections will matter and offer some clues as to how the landscape for 2026 begins to take shape. Here are five questions to consider when thinking about Tuesday's elections:
According to the Silver Bulletin's polling averages, his net approval rating was at minus-8 percent on July 25 and is at minus-8.4 percent on September 22. Trump's second-term job-approval averages started at plus-11.7 percent on January 21, went underwater in March, bottomed out in mid-July at minus-10.3 percent, then increased a bit and stayed put. That means Trump is less popular than any post-World War II president at this stage in their presidency, other than himself during his first term.
The findings are remarkably consistent with past polling on the Republican president in the nation's most populous blue state, said Mark DiCamillo, director of the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies Poll. "If you look at all the job ratings we've done about President Trump - and this carries back all the way through his first term - voters have pretty much maintained the same posture," DiCamillo said. "Voters know who he is."
President Donald Trump's approval rating has steadied at 47%, and his approval compared to former President Joe Biden is on the rise, according to a new Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released this week. Trump's overall approval has the highest marks from voters who are Republican, male, white, from rural areas, and between 25 and 44 years old. His approval rating is highest in several areas: fighting crime in U.S. cities (51%), immigration (50%), and returning America to its values (50%). "Trump has really solidified his political base and is maintaining every point of it," said Mark Penn, co-director of the Harvard CAPS/Harris poll.
