Quinnipiac poll: Trump approval hits new low
President Trump's approval rating has slipped to 38 percent, a new national poll finds.
President Trump's approval rating has slipped to 38 percent, a new national poll finds.
- The Quinnipiac University survey released on Wednesday says that only 38 percent of Americans approve of Trump's job performance, while 55 percent disapprove.
- According to Quinnipiac, the 17-point difference in Trump's approval rating is the worst he's fared in a poll since taking office in January.
- An earlier survey from the pollster this month registered Trump with 42 percent approval and 51 percent disapproval.
- "President Trump's popularity is sinking like a rock," Tim Malloy, the assistant director of the poll, said in a statement announcing the findings.
- "He gets slammed on honesty, empathy, level headedness and the ability to unite. And two of his strong points, leadership and intelligence, are sinking to new lows. This is a terrible survey one month in."
- Polls of Trump's approval rating have shown a wide disparity, according to data tracked by RealClearPolitics. Several others polls put the president's approval rating in the mid-40s, with the conservative-leaning Rasmussen putting his approval rating as high as 51 percent.
- Not surprisingly, the Quinnipiac poll found a strong partisan divide in job approval ratings. An 83 percent majority of Republicans approve of the president, while 91 percent of Democrats disapprove of his job performance.
- Trump's popularity also differs along gender lines, with 41 percent of men approving but only 36 percent of women approving. Fifty-nine percent of women in the poll disapprove of Trump's performance.
- Vice President Mike Pence received a nearly even favorability rating, with 41 percent approving and 40 percent disapproving.
- Quinnipiac University surveyed a pool of 1,323 voters between Feb. 16 and 21. The margin of error is 2.7 percentage points.