-10 net approval rating: Trump’s 44% approval rating is a low point for Morning Consult’s weekly polling in the latest survey taken Nov. 7-9 of 2,201 registered U.S. voters, with a two-point margin of error, while 54% disapprove.
-7: Trump’s approval rating slid to a second-term low of 44% in the latest Harvard CAPS/Harris poll of 2,000 registered voters taken Nov. 4-6 (margin of error 1.99).
Trump’s approval ratings on nine key issues the survey has asked about have slid below 50%, with his handling of crime and immigration receiving the highest marks.
The Harvard CAPS/Harris poll also found 75% oppose the government shutdown and 53% blame Republicans versus Democrats.
A CNN poll conducted by SSRS found Trump’s approval rating dropped to 37%—the lowest recorded by the network during his second term in office, but not quite as low as his 36% approval rating ten months into his first term.
However, Trump’s disapproval rating also reached 63%, one point higher than his 62% disapproval rating when he left office in 2021.
When asked which party they would vote for in next year’s midterm elections, Democrats maintained a small five-point lead ahead of Republicans among registered voters—but a notably smaller advantage compared to the 11-point lead the party held over Republicans at the same point in 2017 before the 2018 midterms.
Trump fared slightly better with a 41% approval rating and 59% disapproval rating in a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll conducted in October.
About 63% of respondents to that poll found Trump was “out of touch” with Americans—but even more (68%) said the same about the Democratic Party.
-19 net approval rating: Trump’s approval rating dipped to a second-term low of 39% in Economist/YouGov polling, while 58% disapprove of his job performance in the survey taken Oct. 24-27 among 1,623 U.S. adults (margin of error 3.5).
Trump’s net approval rating in the poll is also lower than all but one Economist/YouGov survey taken during his first term.
Trump told reporters Tuesday he has the “highest [poll] numbers I ever had,” repeating a claim he made Monday on Truth Social, despite polling averages and most individual surveys showing his approval rating has declined significantly since he took office in January.
-17: Trump’s job approval rating declined two percentage points, to 40%, in the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll from its poll taken Oct. 15-20, when 42% approved of his job performance, while 57% disapprove (the poll of 1,1018 U.S. adults was taken Oct. 24-26 and has a 3-point margin of error).
Most respondents, 52%, said the government shutdown has no impact on their lives.
-5: Trump’s approval rating held steady from last week at 46% while his 51% disapproval rating was also unchanged in Morning Consult’s weekly survey taken Oct. 24-26 among 2,200 registered U.S. voters (margin of error 2).
-17: Trump’s approval rating declined 0.5 points since last week, with 39% approving of his job performance and 56% disapproving, according to an Oct. 17-20 Economist/YouGov survey of 1,621 U.S. adults (margin of error 3.4).
The survey found more respondents, 39%, blame Republicans for the shutdown versus Democrats (31%), though 24% blame both equally and 7% said they weren’t sure.
-14: Trump’s approval rating increased two percentage points in the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll taken Oct. 15-20, to 42%, up from 40% in the groups’ Oct. 3-7 survey, while his disapproval rating declined two points, from 58% to 56%.
The survey also found more respondents, 50%, blame Republicans compared to 43% who blame Democrats in Congress, while 7% skipped the question.
-5: Trump’s approval rating increased to 51%, it’s highest point since late August, while 46% disapprove of his job performance, according to Morning Consult’s weekly poll of 2,200 registered voters taken Oct. 17-19 (margin of error 2).
-3: Trump’s approval rating increased one point from August in an Emerson College poll of 1,000 voters conducted Oct. 13-14, while approval of his handling of the Israel-Hamas war, in the wake of the cease-fire deal he brokered, increased 17 percentage points, from 30% to 47% (the most recent survey has a 3-point margin of error).
-8: Trump’s approval rating dipped one point, to his second-term record low of 45% over the past week, while his disapproval rating ticked back up to a record high of 53% in Morning Consult’s weekly survey of 2,202 registered voters taken Oct. 10-12 (margin of error 2).
-18: In a Reuters/Ipsos poll taken oct. 3-7, 40% said they approve of Trump’s job performance and 58% said they disapprove, a one-point decrease in his net approval rating from the groups’ September survey and consistent with his second-term low (the survey of 1,154 U.S. adults has a margin of error of 3).
-17: Trump’s approval rating dipped 0.7 points from last week in the latest Economist/YouGov poll of 1,648 U.S. adults conducted Oct. 4-6 (margin of error 3.4), with 39% saying they approve of his job performance and 56% saying they disapprove.
The survey found more respondents (41%) blame Republicans in Congress and Trump versus Democrats in Congress (30%) for the government shutdown that began Oct. 1, and 54% disapprove of the way Trump is handling the shutdown, compared to 33% who approve.
-4: Trump’s 46% approval rating in the Harvard CAPS/Harris monthly poll taken in September and released Monday is down one point from August, while 50% disapprove of his job performance (the online survey of 2,413 registered voters was taken Oct. 1-2 and has a margin of error of 2).
A slim majority (53%) of poll respondents blame Republicans overDemocrats (47%) for the shutdown, though 65% say Democrats should end the shutdown by accepting the Republican spending plan, according to the Harvard CAPS/Harris survey.
-6: Trump’s 46% approval rating and 52% disapproval rating is unchanged from the past four weeks in the latest Morning Consult survey of 2,200 registered voters taken Oct. 3-5 (margin of error 2).
-11: Trump has a 43% approval rating and 54% disapproval rating in a New York Times/Siena poll released Tuesday that found his rating on a string of issues, from the economy to managing the Russia-Ukraine war, is underwater with voters, though his support among Republicans remains steady at about 90% (the poll of 1,313 registered voters was conducted Sept. 22-27 and has a margin of error of 3.2).
Crime was the only issue, of seven the Times/Siena poll asked about, where Trump had a net positive approval rating of +1 point.
-17: A Reuters/Ipsos survey of 1,019 respondents conducted Sept. 19-21 found 41% approve of Trump’s job performance and 58% disapprove, a three-point net decline in his rating from the groups’ previous poll conducted Sept. 5-9 and a drop of six points in his approval rating since the start of his term (the most recent survey has a three-point margin of error).
Trump said earlier Tuesday in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly he “was very proud to see this morning I have the highest poll numbers I ever had,” though it’s unclear what survey he was referring to.
Meanwhile, another poll released Tuesday, from The Economist and YouGov found more than two-thirds of Americans believe the economy is in fair or poor condition (the survey of 1,551 U.S. adults was conducted Sept. 19 and 22).
-13: The latest Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos survey conducted Sept. 11-15 found 43% of 2,513 U.S. adults surveyed approve of Trump’s job performance, while 56% disapprove, compared to 39% who approved in the groups’ April poll and 45% who approved in February (the latest survey has a margin of error of 2).
Trump has a 42% average approval rating in his second term, consistent with Biden’s, but below all other recent presidents dating back to Harry Truman, according to Gallup.
-18: Trump’s favorability rating declined three points to 39% and the share of U.S. adults who have an unfavorable view of him increased two points to 57% compared to last week in an Economist/YouGov survey of 1,567 U.S. adults conducted Sept. 12-15 (margin of error 3.6).
The results represent an 11-point decline in Trump’s 50% favorability rating at the start of his term, according to Economist/YouGov polling.
-6 net approval rating: Trump’s job performance improved one point, to 46%, in Morning Consult’s weekly survey compared to the previous week, while his disapproval rating stayed stagnant at 52% (the poll of 2,204 registered U.S. voters was conducted Sept. 12-14 and has a margin of error of 2).
The poll found the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is the top story of 2025, with 67% of voters saying they’ve seen, read or heart “a lot” about it, according to Morning Consult, well above hundreds of other news events Morning Consult has asked about this year.
-14: On par with two other polls this week, Trump had a 42% approval rating in the latest Reuters/Ipsos survey conducted Sept. 5-9, while 56% disapproved, representing a two-point increase from the groups’ August poll in his disapproval rating and a two-point uptick in his approval rating (the poll of 1,084 U.S. adults has a margin of error of 3).
-7: Trump’s approval rating declined one point from last week, to 45%, tied with his record low since taking office, according to Morning Consult’s weekly survey that found 52% disapprove of his job performance (the poll of 2,201 registered voters conducted Sept. 6-8 has a margin of error of 2).
-12: Trump’s approval rating ticked up two points from July, to 44%, while his disapproval rating declined two points, to 56%, in the latest CBS/YouGov poll of 2,385 U.S. adults conducted Sept. 3-5 (margin of error 2.5).
The poll found the majority of respondents, 58%, oppose sending the National Guard to other cities outside of Washington, D.C., as Trump has threatened, though the sentiment is split along party lines, with 85% of Republicans in favors, compared to 7% of Democrats.
-14: A total of 41% of respondents in The Economist/YouGov weekly survey approve of Trump’s job performance, compared to 55% who disapprove, representing a one-point dip in his disapproval rating from last week, while his approval rating was unchanged (the Aug. 29-Sept. 2 poll of 1,691 U.S. adults has a 3.4-point margin-of-error).
-7: Trump’s approval rating declined one point from last week, to 46%, in Morning Consult’s weekly survey, while his 51% disapproval rating remained stagnant—as Americans’ views of his job performance have yet to bounce back from a post-“Liberation Day”decline from his 52% approval rating at the start of his second term, which is consistent with his record-high approval rating in March of his first term (this week’s survey of 2,202 registered voters was conducted Aug. 29-31 and has a two-point margin of error).
42%. That’s Trump’s average approval rating so far during his second term, slightly higher than his 41% average approval rating throughout the duration of his first term, according to Gallup.