Trump approval rating tracker: How unpopular is the president as midterms arrive?

With the midterm elections only weeks away, public opinion of President Donald Trump on pocketbook issues has sunk to troubling levels. An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds just 17% of U.S. adults approve of how he is handling the cost of living, and his economic approval has dropped to a new low of 26%. That is 14 points below where it stood in March 2025. Some 65% of adults hold his policies more responsible for high prices than forces beyond his control, and about 7 in 10 call his performance worse than they expected. Roughly 6 in 10 Republicans disapprove on the issue, according to The Independent.

A Reuters/Ipsos survey puts his overall rating at 32%. Registered voters prefer Democrats on the generic congressional ballot, 47% to 36%, and 73% say their cost of living is moving the wrong way. The New York Times polling shows Democratic Senate hopefuls ahead in Texas and Alaska, states Trump carried comfortably in 2024. Robert Gault, a retired factory worker and self-described Republican from Bradford, Pennsylvania, said he has not seen the president deliver.

Summarized by PolitiKool from The Independent’s reporting. Read the full story at The Independent →