President Donald Trump, taking questions from reporters on Thursday, touted that “a lot of great things are happening.”
However Individuals, almost eight weeks into Trump’s second tour of responsibility within the White Home, appear divided on the job he is doing steering the nation.
Trump’s approval ranking stood in damaging territory at 42%-53% amongst registered voters nationwide in a brand new Quinnipiac College nationwide ballot performed March 6-10 and launched on Thursday.
That is down from 46% approval and 43% disapproval in Quinnipiac’s survey from late January, within the days after Trump’s second inauguration.
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President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025. (IMAGN)
The president was additionally underwater in a CNN ballot (46%-53%) performed March 6-10 and launched this week.
However Trump was above water in three different surveys within the area in current days.
And Trump, who has lengthy stored an in depth eye on public opinion polling, took to social media on Monday to showcase his “Highest Approval Ratings Since Inauguration.”
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Trump’s ballot numbers are an enchancment over his first time period, when he began out in damaging territory and remained there for his four-year time period.
A median of all the newest nationwide polls signifies that Trump’s approval rankings are barely above water. Nevertheless, Trump has seen his numbers edge down barely since returning to the White Home in late January, when a mean of his polls indicated the president’s approval ranking within the low 50s and his disapproval within the mid 40s.
“A noticeable uptick of discontent can be seen over President Trump’s handling of a range of issues: from Ukraine to the economy to the federal workforce,” Quinnipiac polling analyst Tim Malloy highlighted within the survey’s launch.
President Donald Trump (REUTERS/Leah Millis)
The president’s approval ranking was underwater in 9 of the ten points examined within the Quinnipiac survey, together with his dealing with of commerce with China the one situation the place most respondents gave him a thumbs-up.
And on the highest situation on the minds of Individuals, the economic system, Trump stood at 41%-54%.
It was the third ballot performed this month, after the CNN survey and a Reuters/Ipsos ballot, to spell hassle for Trump on the economic system, which arguably was crucial situation that boosted him to victory in final November’s presidential election.
On his dealing with of the federal workforce, the president stood at 40% approval and 55% disapproval within the Quinnipiac survey.
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Trump, by his not too long ago created Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), is on a mission to overtake and downsize the federal authorities.
Trump named Elon Musk, the world’s richest particular person and the chief govt of Tesla and SpaceX, to steer the group.
DOGE has swept by federal businesses, rooting out what the White Home argues was billions in wasteful federal spending. It has additionally taken a meat cleaver to the federal workforce, leading to an enormous downsizing of workers. The strikes by DOGE have triggered a slew of lawsuits in response.
Sixty p.c of voters questioned within the ballot disapprove of the best way Musk and DOGE are coping with staff employed by the federal authorities, with solely 36% approving.
And the survey’s launch provides that “54% of voters think Elon Musk and DOGE are hurting the country, while 40% think they are helping the country.”
Elon Musk, who steers President Trump’s Division of Authorities Effectivity to chop authorities fraud and slash the federal workforce, holds a chainsaw throughout an look at CPAC on Feb. 20, 2025, in Nationwide Harbor, Md. (Jose Luis Magana)
The CNN ballot indicated that greater than 6 in 10 thought the cuts by DOGE would go too far and that essential federal applications can be shut down, with 37% saying the cuts would not go far sufficient in eliminating fraud and waste within the authorities.
It is no shock that there is a huge partisan divide within the newest polls in relation to Trump and DOGE.
Democrats, by a 96%-2% margin within the Quinnipiac survey, gave the president a thumbs-down on the job he is doing in workplace, whereas Republicans permitted by an 89%-9% margin. Impartial voters disapproved, 58%-36%.
There was additionally a big partisan hole over how Musk and DOGE are performing, with greater than three-quarters of Republicans approving and 96% of Democrats and greater than two-thirds of independents disapproving.
Vice President JD Vance (AP )
The ballot additionally requested respondents about Vice President JD Vance’s efficiency in workplace. Vance stood at 41% approval and 49% disapproval.
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Quinnipiac’s survey questioned 1,198 registered voters nationwide for his or her newest ballot. The survey’s total sampling error was plus or minus 2.8 share factors.
