President Donald Trump’s approval rating has hit a new second-term low, a survey from Big Data Poll shows on Thursday.
The pollster previously gave Trump his highest approval rating (+19) of any pollster in his second term thus far, according to The New York Times aggregate of approval rating polls of the president.
Newsweek reached out to the White House via email on Thursday night for comment.
Why It Matters
Previous surveys have also found that Trump’s job approval ratings have fallen, including those on the economy, potentially hurting the Republican Party’s chances of keeping both congressional chambers in the upcoming midterms this year.
Trump has also landed record or near‑record lows among key voting blocs, including Gen Z and independent voters, potentially compounding headwinds for the White House and GOP amid public concern over the cost of living and the war with Iran.
What To Know
According to the poll, roughly 40 percent of registered voters approve of the job the president is doing versus about 57 percent who disapprove. The net approval of -17 marks Trump’s lowest with the pollster during his second term in the Oval Office.
The poll surveyed 3,176 registered voters along with 2,874 likely voters across the country from April 25 to April 28, with a 1.8 percent margin of error for registered voters and 1.7 percent for the likely ones.
In March, the president’s approval rating was about 42 percent, and his disapproval rating was about 56 percent. In February, his approval mark with the pollster was also roughly 42 percent versus around 55 percent disapproval.
In a previous email to Newsweek this week when asked about Trump’s unfavorable polling, White House Spokesman Davis Ingle said, “The ultimate poll was November 5th 2024 when nearly 80 million Americans overwhelmingly elected President Trump to deliver on his popular and commonsense agenda. No other President in history has accomplished more for the American people than President Trump, who is working tirelessly to create jobs, cool inflation, increase housing affordability, and more. The President has already made historic progress not only in America but around the world, and this is just the beginning as his agenda continues taking effect.”
This week, Trump also landed new second-term low net approval ratings among millennials and the baby boomer generation, a poll from The Economist and YouGov found.
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