President Trump’s favorability score at the beginning of his second time period is considerably greater than it was when he first took workplace in January 2017, based on a Quinnipiac College ballot launched Wednesday.
Within the survey, carried out a couple of days after Trump was sworn into workplace, 47 p.c of registered voters stated they’d a positive opinion of Trump, whereas 45 p.c stated they’d an unfavorable view of him. One other 8 p.c stated they both had not heard sufficient or refused to reply.
That’s a marked change from the outcomes of an identical survey carried out a couple of days after Trump took workplace in January 2017. On the time, 39 p.c of respondents had a positive view of Trump, whereas 52 p.c had an unfavorable view of him. One other 8 p.c stated they haven’t heard sufficient or refused to reply.
That enhance in his favorability is pushed by Republicans and independents.
Ninety-one p.c of Republicans stated they’d a positive view of Trump at the beginning of his second time period, up from 86 p.c in 2017. In each polls, 6 p.c of Republicans held unfavorable views of Trump.
Amongst independents, 43 p.c say they’d a positive view of Trump this month, and 48 p.c have an unfavorable view. That displays a narrowing of the margin from 2017, when 37 p.c of independents considered Trump favorably and 52 p.c considered him unfavorably.
Democrats’ views on Trump, in the meantime, have barely moved for the reason that January 2017 ballot — with solely 5 p.c viewing him favorably in each polls; his unfavorable score moved from 89 p.c in 2017 to 88 p.c in 2025.
The survey of 1,019 registered voters was carried out Jan. 23-27 and has a margin of error of three.1 proportion factors.
