President Donald Trump’s approval rating continues to tumble amid voters’ anger at his war in Iran and its negative impacts on inflation and the economy.
A spate of new surveys shows Trump’s approval in the mid to low 30s—an abysmal number that suggests he is starting to lose even some of his base.
A new Verasight/Strength In Numbers poll released Tuesday morning finds Trump’s approval at 35%, with a whopping 61% disapproving of the job he’s doing in office. That’s down another 2 percentage points from March, when the same pollster found Trump with 37% approval.
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Trump at a 36% approval rating, though that is unchanged from last month. However, an American Research Group survey published on Tuesday has Trump’s approval at a second-term low of 32%—down another 2 points from the pollster’s March survey. That 32% approaches the low seen by former President George W. Bush during the height of the 2008 financial crisis and his deeply unpopular Iraq War.
The polls largely attributed Trump’s low standing to Americans’ frustrations with his handling of the economy.
“Trump’s net approval on prices and inflation has fallen to -46—the worst rating on any single issue in the history of our poll, and a stunning 6-point drop from March’s already record-low -40. Nearly three-quarters of Americans (72%) now disapprove of the way Trump is handling prices,” data analyst G. Elliott Morris, who writes the Strength In Numbers newsletter, said in a dissection of his poll.
That comes as gas prices have surged since Trump launched his war in Iran. The nation blocked the Strait of Hormuz—a critical oil transport route—which has led to a supply shortage.
Meanwhile, a number of polls in Senate and gubernatorial contests also dropped on Tuesday, finding Democrats in a strong position to make gains in November’s midterms.
Republican pollster Echelon Insights released a host of polling on Tuesday that found Democrats running closely behind GOP candidates or blowing Republicans out of the water—in some purple and red states.
The most stunning result was from Iowa, where Echelon found Democrat Rob Sand leading the Hawkeye State’s gubernatorial contest by a whopping 12 points, 51% to 39%. The same poll found the state’s two leading Democratic Senate candidates narrowly ahead of likely Republican nominee Ashley Hinson, by 1 to 2 points. Turns out Trump does have to fear blowback from Iowans, who have been hit particularly hard by his idiotic tariffs and war-driven price hikes.
In Georgia, Echelon found Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff comfortably leading both of his possible GOP opponents by high single-digit margins. It also found Democrats with a lead in the gubernatorial race, which, if it holds, would be an important Democratic flip in this rapidly changing purple state.
As it turns out, tanking the economy in order to embroil the United States in another foreign war actually isn’t popular with Americans. And it’s also unpopular for Republicans to blindly back whatever their unpopular leader does.
Go figure.
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