NBC is out with a new poll this morning showing Americans continue to dislike
Trump and the things he’s doing—including the things he said he was really good
at, like fixing the economy. Respondents to the NBC News Decision Desk Poll
reported weak approval across a range of signature issues, including tariffs,
and mass deportations, while expressing overwhelming support for vaccines—a
sharp contrast to the turmoil inside the administration over vaccine policy.
The topline approval rating remains in negative territory, with 57 percent
saying they disapprove of the president’s job and 43 percent saying they
approve—a similar result to the previous poll in June, NBC says. The results
largely follow other polling tracked by The Economist, which uses a weekly
YouGov survey to put Trump’s approval ratings significantly lower than both
Biden’s and Obama’s at similar points in their presidencies, revealing it only
took two months for his ratings to fall below zero, where they have remained.
He’s currently languishing with a net approval rating of -14, according to The
Economist. The average of a set of polls tracked by Nate Silver also puts him in
negative territory at -6.9 net approval.
As my colleague Julianne McShane previously reported, Trump registered the
lowest 100-day approval rating of any president in the past 80 years.
The headline in NBC’s poll today is that Americans of all political stripes
really like vaccines—78 percent of all respondents said they support their use.
Large majorities of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents agree. That comes
as turmoil has erupted under Robert F. Kennedy’s leadership of the country’s top
health agencies, including the decapitation of leadership at the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention—a conflict that came to a boil during a heated
marathon hearing on Thursday before the Senate Finance Committee. As my
colleague Kiera Butler documented, Kennedy appeared to promote flat-out lies. In
recent weeks, he has canceled mRNA vaccination research and stocked an important
vaccine advisory panel with vaccine critics. A letter released this week and
signed by 1,000 former HHS employees called for his resignation.
Americans are giving Trump poor marks on other issues too, with just 43 percent
approving of his mass deportation regime (though he scores slightly higher on
the broader issue of border security, at 47 percent). On trade (41 percent) and
inflation (39 percent), Americans continue to view Trump dimly.
Meanwhile, the survey took the nation’s emotional temperature as well, showing
nearly 70 percent of Democrats are either “furious” or “angry” at Trump’s
actions. A smaller proportion of Republicans—45 percent—say they are either
“thrilled” or “happy.”
Read the full results of the poll here.
Tag - Polling
So much for winning.
New polls show that President Donald Trump’s approval rating has hit record lows
as he nears the 100-day mark of his second term on Tuesday.
An ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll found that Trump has the lowest 100-day
approval rating of any president in the past 80 years, with only 39 percent of
respondents saying they approve of Trump’s term thus far. The 80-year comparison
appears to refer to when Gallup first started measuring public approval of
presidents, back during President Harry Truman’s term; according to data
compiled by ABC, Trump had the lowest approval ratings of all presidents at 100
days in both of his terms, and he’s the only president to have the disapproval
of the majority of Americans only three months into his term.
Seventy-two percent of respondents to the ABC poll also said they believe
Trump’s economic policies—such as his tariff-induced global trade war—will
likely cause a recession in the short term, and 53 percent believe the economy
has gotten worse since Trump took office. More than 60 percent said that his
administration does not respect the rule of law and that he is going too far in
trying to expand his power. Majorities also disapproved of nearly every other
action. The poll asked about Trump’s moves—reducing funding for medical
research, shutting down the Department of Education, freezing foreign
humanitarian aid, seeking to deport international students, and sending a group
of Venezuelans to a notorious prison in El Salvador without due process—and they
were all disliked.
Meanwhile, a new NBC News Stay Tuned poll found 55 percent of Americans
disapprove of Trump’s approach to his second term. Majorities also disapprove of
his handling of border security and immigration and his tariff policy, the poll
found.
There’s more. A CNN poll found only 22 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s
approach to the job, with broad disapproval on issues ranging from the economy
to managing the federal government, immigration, and how he’s handling foreign
affairs.
Spokespeople for the White House did not immediately respond to requests for
comment. So far, Trump has avoided directly addressing the dismal poll numbers;
instead, he seems to be making up his own favorable findings. “JUST RELEASED:
99.9% at the Border,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Sunday morning. (It’s unclear
what, exactly, he was referring to, as is the source of that statistic.) “There
has NEVER been such a difference before. Congratulations America!”