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Is Trump losing political battle at home? His job rating just 38%, says public survey
President Donald Trump's approval rating has dipped, with only 38% of voters approving of the way he is handling his job, while 54% disapprove, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday read more President Donald Trump's approval rating has dipped, with only 38% of voters approving of the way he is handling his job, while 54% disapprove, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday. The figures reflect a slight decline from the university's April 9 poll, when 41% approved and 53% disapproved of his performance. The survey also asked voters to evaluate Trump's handling of seven key issues. Across the board, more voters expressed disapproval than approval: STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Immigration: 43% approve, 54% disapprove Deportations: 40% approve, 56% disapprove The Economy: 40% approve, 56% disapprove Trade: 38% approve, 57% disapprove Universities: 37% approve, 54% disapprove Israel-Hamas Conflict: 35% approve, 52% disapprove Russia-Ukraine War: 34% approve, 57% disapprove 'As the Russia - Ukraine war grinds through its third year, Americans make it clear they have little appetite for the way the Trump administration is handling the situation,' said Quinnipiac polling analyst Tim Malloy. The poll also measured public opinion of Trump more broadly. Forty per cent of voters hold a favourable view of the president, while 53% view him unfavourably. Four per cent said they haven't heard enough about him to form an opinion. Support among Republicans remains strong, with 88% expressing a favourable opinion of Trump, similar to Quinnipiac's March 13 poll. According to other recent national polls too, Trump continues to face more disapproval than approval from voters. An Economist/YouGov survey conducted June 13–16 found that 54% of voters disapprove of Trump's job performance, while 41% approve. The poll, which surveyed 1,512 US adults, carries a margin of error of 3.3 percentage points. Trump also remains underwater on foreign policy, particularly regarding Iran. Just 37% of respondents approve of his handling of the Iran issue, while 41% disapprove. Notably, 60% of those surveyed, including 53% of voters who supported Trump in 2024, oppose US involvement in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran, despite Trump's repeated threats of military intervention. Meanwhile, Trump saw a slight improvement in his net approval in the latest Pew Research Center survey, conducted June 2–8. In the poll, 41% of respondents approved of his performance, while 58% disapproved, marking a two-point gain compared to Pew's April survey. The poll surveyed 5,044 US adults with a margin of error of 1.6 percentage points. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD With inputs from agencies
Newsweek
4 days ago
- Politics
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Donald Trump Approval Rating Suffers Worst Polls Yet—'Awful, Awful, Awful'
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. President Donald Trump's net approval rating has plummeted to the lowest level of his second term in two recent polls. CNN's chief data analyst Harry Enten said on Friday that the latest Quinnipiac University and Associated Press-NORC polls, which had Trump's approval rating at 38 and 39 percent respectively, were "awful, awful, awful" for the president. Why It Matters Several recent polls have found Trump's approval rating remains stuck in negative territory. The latest numbers suggest Americans largely disapprove of Trump's handling of protests in Los Angeles over his stepped-up enforcement of immigration laws. The two polls were conducted between June 5 and 9, during which time protests in LA prompted Trump to deploy roughly 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to the city. President Donald Trump on the South Lawn of the White House on June 15, 2025, in Washington D.C. President Donald Trump on the South Lawn of the White House on June 15, 2025, in Washington To Know The latest June polling by Quinnipiac University found just 38 percent approve of the job Trump is doing, while 54 percent disapprove. In the university's April 9 poll, 41 percent approved, while 53 percent disapproved. The latest survey was conducted among 1,265 self-identified registered voters from June 5 to June 9 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points. Meanwhile, the latest AP-NORC found 39 percent had a positive view of the job Trump is doing, while 60 percent disapproved of his leadership so far. The survey was conducted between June 5 and 9 among 1,158 adults, and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. The AP-NORC poll in May found 41 percent approved of Trump's job performance, and 57 percent disapproved. Enten said that Trump's approval rating on the issue of immigration has dropped six points in the past two weeks, according to CNN's aggregate. "The only thing that's happened over the last two weeks is obviously Donald Trump's ramped up immigration hawkish agenda. And at least at this particular point, the American people are saying, 'No, we do not like that." "And they have turned against the president on his core strength issue of immigration. He is now underwater on the issue that has been strongest for him." What People Are Saying Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek: "These polls suggest views about Trump's performance in his second term continue to deteriorate, with erosion in Trump approval materializing even among the president's strongest supporters. "It's likely the chaos voters perceive in the administration's actions, its inability to rein in global conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East and to address economic woes as promised, along with concerns about GOP policies and priorities are fueling this decline. Voters are paying attention, and they're not thrilled, even those who previously gave Trump the highest marks." Grant Davis Reeher, a political science professor at Syracuse University, told Newsweek that the public "seems to be reacting against the administration's recent aggressive tactics in enforcing immigration laws, although other polling shows a pretty even split on sending in the National Guard to quell protests when they become violent." He added: "The big question for Democrats, however, is whether they can offer something that a majority of voters will find more appealing than what is currently being put forward by Republicans, and the president. "The table is set for Democrats to take advantage of the collective political frustration, but it's an open question whether they will be able to realize it. I would expect them to regain the House in 2026, but the presidential race in 2028 is far from clear." CNN's Harry Enten said on Friday's broadcast of CNN News Central that the polls were "the worst for Donald Trump in this term so far. He is very much way, way, way underwater, at least in these two polls." He added: "This is simply put, been one of the worst polling weeks for Donald Trump that we've seen." What's Next Trump's approval rating is likely to continue fluctuating in the coming weeks. How demonstrations against Immigration and Customs Enforcement's actions unfold in Los Angeles and other major cities could have a significant influence on public opinion.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Business
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Donald Trump's approval ratings amid protests: What the latest polls say
President Donald Trump's approval ratings continue to fluctuate. Most recent polls report that his approval ratings are slightly lower than his unfavorable ratings. Here's a look at Trump's latest approval ratings across the U.S. amid nationwide protests. Here are the latest approval ratings released for Trump's administration: Morning Consult Most recent Trump approval rating, according to the latest Morning Consult poll (June 9, 2025): Favorable: 47% Unfavorable: 51% Note: this rating is slightly better than a 45% low in mid-April and up 46% from earlier in June. The disapproval rate has not changed in nearly a month. Rasmussen Most recent Trump approval rating, according to the latest Rasmussen poll (June 12, 2025): Favorable: 53% Unfavorable: 45% The latest figures include 36% of U.S. voters who "strong approve" of the job Trump is doing as president as well as 37% of voters who "strongly disapprove," according to the report. Civiqs Most recent Trump approval rating, according to the latest Civiqs poll (June 12, 2025): Favorable: 43% Unfavorable: 53% Neutral: 4% Quinnipiac University Most recent Trump approval rating, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll (June 11, 2025): Favorable: 38% Unfavorable: 54% Note: the percentage of voters who approve of how Trump is handling his job as president declined from 41% approval, down by 3 percentage points, since Quinnipiac University's April poll. The Economist Most recent Trump approval rating, according to the latest from The Economist (June 10, 2025): Favorable: 44% Unfavorable: 51% Not sure: 5% The latest report show that voters believe the top three most important Americans are facing is inflation/prices, jobs and the economy followed by health care. Cygnal Most recent Trump approval rating, according to the latest Cygnal poll (June 5, 2025): Favorable: 46% Unfavorable: 51% Navigator Research Most recent Trump approval rating, specifically regarding the public's perception of President Trump, according to the latest Navigator Research poll (May 27, 2025): Favorable: 44% Unfavorable: 54% According to the report, 56% of Americans disapprove how Trump is handling the economy, compared to 42% who approve. Independents in particular "overwhelmingly disapprove of Trump's handling of the presidency with 33% in support and 58% not.) Reuters/Ipsos Most recent Trump approval rating, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll (May 16-18, 2025): Favorable: 42% Unfavorable: 52% Gallup Most recent Trump approval rating, according to the latest Gallup poll (May 1-18, 2025): Favorable: 43% Unfavorable: 53% No opinion: 5% Fox News Most recent Trump approval rating, according to the latest Fox News poll (April 18-21, 2025): Favorable: 44% Unfavorable: 55% Neutral: 1% A president's approval rating reflects the percentage of Americans polled who approve of the president's performance. Anything can impact a president's rating, such as legislation passed, actions and elections. According to ABC News, an approval rating doesn't just represent how well the administration is faring for the general public but could factor into the outcome of an upcoming election or how much they accomplish while in office. Presidential approval ratings were first conducted by the founder of the American Institute of Public Opinion, George Gallup, around 1935 to gauge public support for the president of the United States during their term. While Gallup has tracked presidential approval for 70 years, other organizations also conduct and release their own polls. Among them, Ipsos and Morning Consult. More than 90 'No Kings' protests are planned across New York state on Saturday, June 14, as part of a nationwide day of action opposing what organizers called 'authoritarianism, billionaire-first politics, and the militarization of democracy.' The coordinated effort is expected to draw thousands of demonstrators to locations from Long Island to the Finger Lakes. The protests coincide with Trump's planned military parade in Washington, D.C., marking both Flag Day and the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary, as well as the president's 79th birthday. Contributing: USA Today Network This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Donald Trump approval ratings: What the latest polls say
Yahoo
7 days ago
- Politics
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CNN Data Guru: ICE Raids Have Put Trump's Approval Rating ‘Underwater'
President Donald Trump's immigration policies, once his strongest issue with voters, may now be pummeling his approval ratings. On Friday's broadcast of CNN News Central, CNN Chief Data Analyst Harry Enten said the president's immigration policies and handling of subsequent protests have been 'awful, awful, awful' for his ratings. In fact, Trump is now sitting at the lowest approval rating of his second term. 'This is simply put, one of the worst polling weeks for Donald Trump that we've seen,' Enten told viewers on Friday. The CNN analyst cited two polls, one from Quinnipiac University released June 11 and one from AP-NORC released June 12, which place the president's approval rating at just 38 percent and 39 percent, respectively. According to CNN's poll tracker, that places the president at a 3-point drop in both polls. In short, Enten says the president is 'very much way way way underwater.' While the president's overall approval rating has suffered, Enten says things are looking especially dire when it comes to his immigration policies. According to CNN's aggregate, Trump's approval rating on the specific issue of immigration has dropped a staggering six points in the last two weeks as ICE raids spark protests nationwide. Where Trump's approval rating on immigration sat at +4 on June 1, by Friday morning, it had dropped to -2. 'They have turned against the president on his core strength,' said Enten of Trump's supporters. 'He is now underwater on the issue that has been strongest for him.' The drop in approval for Trump's handling of immigration marks a major change in voters' perception of the president, who has previously leaned on immigration as one of his strongest issues among supporters. Just four days ago, on Monday, Enten said on CNN News Central that Trump's approval rating on immigration had 'gone up like a rocket' since his first term. In fact, Enten said his high rating had emboldened the president to send National Guard troops into Los Angeles on June 8, as he believed stoking conflict with California Gov. Gavin Newsom would help his approval ratings. 'Trump is begging for a fight on this because he knows what he's doing so far is working with the American electorate,' Enten told host John Berman on June 9. Now, the CNN data chief says the tactic was far from successful. 'I said at the beginning of this week that Donald Trump wanted this fight,' said Enten during Friday's broadcast. 'Maybe he shouldn't have.' Also hurting Trump's approval rating is his planned military parade, scheduled for Saturday to celebrate his 79th birthday. According to the AP-NORC poll, which Enten referenced on Friday morning's broadcast, a whopping 60 percent of respondents across the political spectrum said the parade was not a good use of government funds, while just 38 percent said it was a good use. This is not the first time Trump's approval ratings have fluctuated dramatically since he took office in January. As Enten noted in Friday's broadcast, the president's numbers also plummeted around the 100th day of his presidency on April 30. On April 29, CNN News Central reported that the president's approval rating had dropped to just 41 percent. It was the lowest rating of any president approaching the 100th day of their term since modern pollsters started tracking presidential approval ratings during the Eisenhower administration. Just six weeks earlier, the president had reached his highest approval rating to date in an NBC poll, which placed him at 47 percent among all respondents. At the time, 55 percent of respondents in the NBC poll said they approved of his immigration policy, while CNN reported the number as 51 percent. Now, the AP-NORC poll reports that number is down to 46 percent. The Quinnipiac poll is even more dire, placing the rating at just 43 percent. 'At this point,' said Enten on Friday, 'He's much more towards the trough of his popularity than the crest of it.'
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Americans' – and Republicans' – increasingly complicated relationship with Israel
The president who promised to easily and quickly bring about peace has now found himself accounting for yet another major escalation. President Donald Trump had publicly discouraged Israel from striking Iran in recent days, as he pushed to instead secure a deal to curtail Iran's nuclear program. But it didn't pan out. Israel launched a massive attack overnight that targeted Iran's nuclear facilities and killed high-ranking officials – strikes that Trump told CNN by phone early Friday were 'very successful.' It all reinforces how the world we live in is much more complex than the one Trump pitched on the campaign trail. And from a domestic perspective, the situation with Israel is arguably more complex than it has been in many decades. Multiple indicators suggest Americans' support for Israel has reached historic lows as its war in Gaza has dragged on. And while Republicans are much more likely to back Israel than Democrats, even that is getting more complicated – particularly as influential voices on the right voice skepticism of a hardline approach to Iran. Much remains to shake out amid the historic escalation in the Middle East. Things will shift. There is a real question about whether Iran is even capable now of the kind of significant retaliation that could lead to a wider war. But the US decisions that lie ahead aren't as easy as they once might have seemed, politically speaking. A Quinnipiac University poll released this week – ahead of Israel's strikes – epitomized the shifting landscape. Polls for decades have asked Americans to choose whether they sympathize more with Israelis or Palestinians, and Israel is almost always the runaway favorite. But this one showed Americans sided with the Israelis by a historically narrow margin: 37% to 32%. After Hamas' October 2023 terror attack on Israel, that margin had been 61-13% in the Israelis' favor. So a 48-point edge has shrunk to five. That's not only the lowest advantage for Israel since Quinnipiac began polling this question in 2001, but it appears to be about the lowest since at least 1980 across multiple polls, according to data compiled by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Those findings, while telling, don't strictly apply to a conflict between Israel and Iran. But it's also clear that overall support for Israel has waned over the past year and a half. To wit: A March poll from the Pew Research Center showed 53% of Americans – a majority – had an unfavorable opinion of Israel. That was up from 42% in 2022, before the current war in Gaza. The same poll showed Americans said by more than a 20-point margin that they lacked confidence in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A March poll from Marquette University Law School showed Americans evenly split on Israel: 43% favorable to 43% unfavorable. And a February Reuters/Ipsos poll showed about 4 in 10 Americans leaned toward the idea that Israel's problems are 'none of our business.' What was particularly striking about that last one: These views were almost completely nonpartisan. It was about 4 in 10 Democrats, independents and Republicans who said Israel's business was none of ours. That suggests that Trump's injection of non-interventionism in the conservative movement has caught on, even as it relates to our most significant ally in the Middle East. But it's more than just non-interventionism; there are also plenty of signs that even Republicans have soured on Israel. The Quinnipiac poll showed the percentage of Republicans who sympathized more with the Israelis than Palestinians dropping from 86% in October 2023 to 64% today. (Almost all of the shift was to a neutral position, rather than to the Palestinians.) And the Pew poll showed unfavorable views of Israel among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents rising from 27% in 2022 to 37% in March. Most remarkably, right-leaning voters under the age of 50 were about evenly split in their views of Israel. These modest but significant shifts have come as certain corners of the MAGA movement have adopted a more skeptical view of the American alliance with Israel and cautioned against a hardline approach to Iran. Those tensions are perhaps best exemplified by an intense and ongoing feud between Fox News host Mark Levin and his former Fox colleague, Tucker Carlson. Carlson on Friday morning went so far as to say the United States should decouple itself from Israel altogether. He said the Trump administration should 'drop Israel. Let them fight their own wars.' Carlson said the United States not only shouldn't send troops, but that it shouldn't provide any funding or weapons. Also this week, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard used her personal X account to promote a cryptic video. She urged people to 'reject this path to nuclear war' and said certain 'elite warmongers' were carelessly pushing us toward it, in the knowledge that they personally had nuclear shelters that others didn't. It's not clear if Gabbard was alluding to the tensions in the Middle East – as opposed to, say, the war between Russia and Ukraine. But she has long advocated a softer approach to Iran. Back in 2020, while she was still a Democrat, she called Trump's killing of a top Iranian commander an unconstitutional 'act of war.' Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana responded this week that Gabbard should 'change her meds.' In other words, this isn't even simple on the right anymore. Trump leads a country and a movement that are increasingly torn about the path ahead. He has landed firmly in Israel's corner thus far. But very difficult decisions could lie ahead.
