California voters display strong partisan polarization over President Trump and his policies. Large majorities of Democrats and unaffiliated voters disapprove of Trump and say the country is headed in the wrong direction under his leadership, while many Republicans express the opposite view. The partisan split appears across issues including Medicaid cuts, tariffs and disaster relief. Democrats are broadly opposed to Trump's agenda and doubt federal wildfire aid delivery, while Republicans are more supportive of his policies and less likely to report negative personal impacts from tariffs.
The findings are remarkably consistent with past polling on the Republican president in the nation's most populous blue state, said Mark DiCamillo, director of the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies Poll. "If you look at all the job ratings we've done about President Trump - and this carries back all the way through his first term - voters have pretty much maintained the same posture," DiCamillo said. "Voters know who he is."
The same partisan divide also showed up in the poll on a number of hot-button issues, such as Medicaid cuts and tariffs, DiCamillo said - with Democrats "almost uniformly" opposed to Trump's agenda and Republicans "pretty much on board with what Trump is doing." Asked whether the sweeping tariffs that Trump has imposed on international trading partners have had a "noticeable negative impact" on their family spending, 71% of Democrats said yes, while 76% of Republicans said no.
"If you're a Republican, you tend to discount the impacts - you downplay them or you just ignore them," while Democrats "tend to blame everything on Trump," DiCamillo said. Asked whether they were confident that the Trump administration would provide California with the nearly $40 billion in wildfire relief aid it has requested in response to the devastating L.A.-area fires in January, 93% of Democrats said they were not confident - compared with the 43% of Republicans who said they were confident.
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