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A recent series of polls show that President Donald Trump’s approval rating remains largely stable last week despite the new Gallup poll giving him the lowest number for his second term.
Aggregation of recent approval surveys from The New York Times and RealClearpolitics has led to Trump getting 44% to 45% approvals, with 53% to 42% disapprovals respectively.
In a July 25 poll at Emerson College, the president had a 46% approval rate and a 47% disapproval. This is an increase of one point in both counts from the June results of the survey.
“Around six months after the second Trump administration, the president’s approval ratings stabilized in the mid-’40s,” Spencer Kinball, executive director of the poll, said in a statement. “His disapproval has increased by about one point per month since the inauguration, now at 47%.”
A Gallup poll released the previous day showed that the president’s approval rate was significantly lower, at 37%. Pollers called it his second term’s lowest mark, only a few points higher than his all-time highest rating of 34% at the end of his first term.
Both polls showed that deep disparities between Republicans and Democrats have long been rated, particularly when it comes to Trump and his policies regarding immigration, foreign policy and the economy.
Here is a summary of some of the polls from last week.
Emerson College’s polls
- 46% will approve
- 47% disapproved
Trump marked his highest single issue of immigration approval rating, with 45% saying he approved Trump’s policy and 46% approved it.
The highest number of disapprovals was in the economy, with a 41% approval rate and a 51% disapproval. It continued to sink under Trump’s customs policy, with 36% approved and 50% disapproved.
Trump’s support was facilitated by Republican respondents on both overall job performance and specific issues – on votes. Just 10% of Democrats said they liked the president’s performance at work, compared to 87% of Republicans and 38% of independents. The support for the difference was most widely accepted by the immigration party, with 12.9% of Democrats endorsing compared to 80% of Republicans.
The survey of 1,400 registered voters was conducted between July 21 and 22 with an error of ±2.5 percentage points.
Gallup vote
- 37% will approve
- 58% disapproved
The poll shows a 10-point decline from the 47% approval rating that Americans gave Trump at the beginning of the second term in January.
Approximately 29% of independent voters said they were happy with Trump’s job performance in a new survey, with the lowest Gallup tracking the group in one of Trump’s two terms. This is 17 percentage points down from the 46% the president enjoyed among independences at the start of his second term earlier this year.
Trump’s assessment of some of the most important issues facing the country has also been shaken up, according to Gallup polls. He received the strongest support for handling the conflict with Iran, with 42% approval followed by a foreign policy of 41%.
The Iranian president’s handling of the US military, which bombed three nuclear facilities last month, won Trump with the biggest support from independents at 36%, and the federal budget gave him the lowest at 19%.
The survey of 1,002 Americans was conducted from July 7th to 21st, with an error range of ±4% points.
Fox News poll
- 46% will approve
- 54% disapproved
Trump’s support was lowest on issues of inflation and tariffs, with 36% of respondents supporting the way Trump approached two central troops in the US economy. He received the highest ranking in border security, with 56% of respondents approved and 44% disapproved.
Along the party line, it was the highest support among Republicans, with 88% in favor of the president. 37% of independents and 7% of Democrats agreed.
This research was conducted by Beacon Research/Shaw & Co. It was carried out by Research. 1,000 registered voters were surveyed July 18th-21st, with an error of ±3 percentage points in the poll.
Kathryn Palmer is a national trending news reporter for USA Today. You can contact her kapalmer@usatoday.com And with x @Kathrynplmr.
