#trump-approval

#trump-approval

Under the headline, Democrats Start Their Comeback, and sub-headline, A warning for the GOP from New Jersey and Virginia on affordability and Trump's unpopularity, the Journal observed that President Trump rolled to victory in 2024 promising to reduce inflation and make middle-class life more affordable. The warning to Republicans in Tuesday's election results is that Democrats are turning the tables on affordability, especially when they steer clear of leftist cultural snares.

According to a new poll out Sunday from NBC News, the president's approval rating currently sits at 43 percent compared to 55 percent who disapprove of his job performance. That approval number represents a 4 percent drop from his standing in March. The dissatisfaction with Trump extends to the entire Republican party, the poll found. On the generic Congressional ballot, Democrats lead Republicans by a sizable 8-point margin 50-42.

By a 38%-27% margin, respondents said they would blame Republicans for a shutdown with 3 in 10 saying both parties would be to blame. The plurality of independents, 4 in 10, would blame both parties equally. "Neither one wants to compromise," said Debra Sudbeck, 71, an independent from Nebraska. "It's just that Republicans want to do everything they can to antagonize the Democrats, and Democrats want to do everything they can to go against the Republicans. They're just fighting like two little kids."

According to the Silver Bulletin's polling averages, his net approval rating was at minus-8 percent on July 25 and is at minus-8.4 percent on September 22. Trump's second-term job-approval averages started at plus-11.7 percent on January 21, went underwater in March, bottomed out in mid-July at minus-10.3 percent, then increased a bit and stayed put. That means Trump is less popular than any post-World War II president at this stage in their presidency, other than himself during his first term.

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."