Barely more than one-third of Americans approve of how President Donald Trump is doing his job, and on key issues, his support is underwater.
Just thirty-seven percent of Americans give President Trump good marks overall, while more than half the country, fifty-five percent, disapprove, according to the latest Quinnipiac University national poll.
The partisan divide is large, with 84% of Republicans saying he is doing a good job, and 98% of Democrats saying he is not. The majority of independents, 58%, agree with Democrats and disapprove.
Just less than three in ten women (29%) approve of President Trump’s performance, while 46% of men do.
On crime, the majority (54%) disapprove of Trump’s performance, just 42% approve.
On the economy, fewer than four in ten (39%) approve, and 57% disapprove.
Similarly, on trade, just 38% approve, while 56% disapprove.
On his efforts to end the Ukraine war, a majority (52%) disapprove, while just 40% approve.
“Voters have little confidence in President Trump’s effort to broker peace in Ukraine, and most voters don’t trust Vladimir Putin to keep a peace deal if one were reached,” Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy wrote. “And though the president has ruled out putting U.S. troops in the war theater to keep the peace, four out of 10 voters would support it,”
And two-thirds of Americans (67%) disapprove of his handling of the Epstein files.
According to the non-partisan group Political Polls, this is Trump’s lowest approval rating in this term.
Critics and strategists weighed in.
Mike Madrid, the top Republican Latino political consultant, remarked, “Brutal poll results for Trump. Just brutal.”
“Striking” is how The New Republic’s Greg Sargent described the poll’s finding on Trump deploying the National Guard, and he noted that Trump’s “overall approval on crime is cratering.”
“Predictably, Trump’s terrible overreach is again turning people against him in an area where he was previously perceived as strong, just as on immigration and the economy,” wrote Aaron Fritschner, deputy chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA). “Per Quinnipiac, independents oppose his DC occupation 61-34. Overall: 56-41 against.”
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