USA21 September, 20262 min read
Reuters/Ipsos Poll Finds Trump Approval Falls To 32% Amid High Costs And Iran War
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Trump approval at 32%, lowest ever, tied to Iran war and rising living costs. Four-day Reuters/Ipsos poll closed Sunday, showing GOP approval dipping from 82% to 73%.
Approval hits 32%
President Donald Trump’s approval rating fell to 32%, the lowest of his political career, in a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Sunday. The Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 73% of Republicans approved of Trump’s job performance, down from 82% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll a week earlier, while Trump’s overall approval stood at 35% that week. The poll showed that just 17% of respondents approved of Trump’s handling of the cost of living, which Americans say will determine how they vote in the November 3 midterm elections.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll also found that Republicans who disapprove of Trump’s handling of the cost of living outnumber those who give him a thumbs up, 51% to 44%. The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online and gathered 1,277 responses from US adults nationwide, with a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
Midterms as referendum
More than half of registered voters, 53%, said they would vote for Democratic candidates if the election were today, while 41% preferred Republicans. Independents favor Democrats by a margin of 25 points, and Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, said, "The Democrats are sitting in a very good place." About 7 in 10 voters acknowledge the president is a factor, one way or another, in their vote for Congress, while just 30% of voters said Trump isn’t a factor.
Joel Payne said, "That's devastating," after Payne described the impact of independents being motivated to vote against one side. Trump’s job performance approval was 39% approving and 59% disapproving in the latest PBS News, NPR, and Marist poll.
Cost of living and Iran
Dissatisfaction among Republicans on inflation has been growing since Trump launched the war on Iran in February that has pushed gasoline and diesel prices sharply higher. Only 34% of the most recent poll respondents approve of the strikes on Iran, and 82% of poll respondents said the conflict would likely go on for an "extended period of time." The Reuters/Ipsos poll showed registered voters picked Democrats over Republicans, 43% to 35%, when asked how they would vote in the midterms.
The poll found that Trump remains popular among Republicans on the issue of immigration, with 79% of his party backing him, but only 36% of Americans overall support his approach and 55% disapprove. 27% of Americans approve of Trump on the economy, down 22 points from 2018, and 44% of registered voters say they view their congressional vote as a message of opposition to Trump.