Trump's approval rating stands at 52% after first month back in office: Poll
US President Donald Trump boasts a 52% approval rating after his first month back in the Oval Office, according to recent polling data.
A Harvard CAPS/Harris survey found that 33 percent strongly approved of the president’s job performance, and 19 percent somewhat approved, News.Az reports, citing The Hill.
Roughly 43 percent disapproved, with most expressing strong disapproval, and another 5 percent were undecided.
Trump’s numbers differed starkly across party lines; about 9 in 10 Republicans approved of his handling, and nearly 8 in 10 Democrats disapproved. Independents were almost exactly split.
“This is a good start for Trump, though many of his policy initiatives are more popular [than] this,” Mark Penn, the co-director of the poll, said of Trump’s approval rating.
“So Americans are taking a wait and see approach with Trump having the potential to climb higher, especially as 58 percent believe he is doing a better job than [former President] Biden.”
Trump outperformed Biden’s January figures in voter perceptions of how the leaders handled the economy, immigration, foreign affairs and administering the government — though the Republican only crossed the 50-point approval mark on immigration.
The poll tested 11 of Trump’s policies and found all but one earned a majority of voter support. The outlier, with 39 percent support, was his move to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. The top policy, with 81 percent support, was deportation of immigrants “who are here illegally and have committed crimes,” as the poll worded it.
Roughly equal shares of respondents said Trump is doing either better or worse than expected, at 36 percent and 35 percent, respectively. Another 29 percent said he was performing as expected.
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