"The past two months have been some of the worst for Donald Trump's approval rating-ever. Polling aggregators have his net approval in the low 40s, with 34 percent approval on the economy and 30 percent on cost of living. In individual polls, his overall approval dips down into the mid 30s. The last time Trump's numbers looked this bad was right after the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. George W. Bush exited the White House with similar ratings."
"The slippage is especially drastic with young voters. In the 2024 election, a majority of 18-to-29-year-olds voted for Kamala Harris, but compared with 2020, young voters swung hard toward Trump. According to the Cook Political Report, on March 1, 2025, Trump's net approval rating with these voters was minus 7. Yet by February 1 of this year, it was an astonishing minus 31.8. Now young people are abandoning Trump faster than any other voting block."
"It's tempting to think that this is all happening because of this administration's blatantly authoritarian and norm-shattering actions: deploying masked ICE agents into American cities, stonewalling on the Epstein files, demolishing the East Wing, capturing Venezuela's president, sharing racist videos on social media. All of those actions matter, and are slowly chipping away at Trump's base of support."
Donald Trump's approval ratings have plunged, with aggregators showing net approval in the low 40s, 34 percent approval on the economy, and 30 percent on cost of living. Individual polls put overall approval into the mid 30s, a level last seen after the January 6 attack and comparable to George W. Bush's exit. The decline is steepest among 18-to-29-year-olds, whose net approval fell from minus 7 on March 1, 2025 to minus 31.8 by February 1 of this year. Focus groups with young Trump voters report feelings of betrayal because promised fixes to prices and the economy have not materialized, and many recall the campaign pledge to "build the greatest economy in the history of the world."
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