Nate Cohn
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 16 Sep
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Only 32% of voters approve of his handling of the case, 52% disapprove. And it's cases like Garcia, and there are other cases out there that have been in the news over the last month, that are dragging down his overall approval rate on immigration. If voters were instead focused on the huge declines in apprehensions at the border and
or efforts to deport people on stronger legal footing, I would guess that a majority of voters would approve of his handling of immigration. But because we're focused on this area where he's acting in defiance of the courts, and also clearly, in our poll's view, in defiance of public opinion, He has undermined what ought to be a relatively strong position on what has been his strongest issue.
majority support for his approach to immigration into instead disapproval that's right if there's any theme from the poll it's trump going too far we asked this exact question on a number of issues his tariffs cuts to government employment his changes in general the political economic system on all of the questions an outright majority of voters say the president is going too far
Doge is probably the issue where Trump is maybe holding up the best. This is, of course, relative. 52% of voters say they're going too far with their cuts to the federal workforce. So this is his best issue that we're asking about. But even on this issue, he's underwater.
Not good for the president either. Already, a majority of voters say the president's actions have made the economy worse. They say the economy has gotten worse over the last year. And one of the president's big strengths in the 2024 campaign, the idea that his policies were going to help you personally, has been reversed.
Voters now think his policies are hurting them and will continue to hurt them. Over the next four years.
And then on the other sort of broader questions I was just talking about, like whether he's gone too far, whether people approve of Trump, whether they support the tariffs themselves and all of those issues, voters overwhelmingly disapprove of the president's tariffs, think he's going too far and disapprove of his handling of the economy. There are no bright spots there for him.
So we asked whether voters thought Trump was exceeding the powers available to him as president. And a majority of voters, 54%, think that he's going beyond that. the powers that are available to him as president and only 43% think he's acting within his legal rights.
One of my favorite questions in the poll, we asked whether people thought Donald Trump was making major changes, minor changes to the economic and political system or trying to just tear down the system altogether. And when we asked this question last year, we were asking what kind of change people want. Do you want major change, minor change, or do you want to tear down the system?
And most people wanted major changes, but very few people wanted to tear the system down completely. And we found that 35% of people already in less than 100 days perceived the president as attempting to completely tear down the system.
Much higher than the number that wanted it a year ago.
and they see those changes as bad we just straight up asked i mean do you think these changes are good or bad a majority said they were bad and a majority also said that the president is going too far in trying to change the political and economic system in the country i should also note we're only at the beginning of trump's term and we asked a variety of questions about places where trump might go in the future like defying the supreme court or attempting to deport u.s citizens to el salvador as he suggested he might
And on those issues, there's essentially zero public support for pursuing those more extreme measures that would defy the most fundamental norms of due process and the separation of powers.
I think that's a great summary, Michael. And I do think it's worth noting that most Trump supporters remain on his side. Overwhelming majority of people who voted for Trump last November still approve of his performance today. In fact, most strongly approve of his performance.
But those voters that put him over the top, the kinds of voters who didn't vote for him in 2020 or 2016, but then gave him a victory in the popular vote, those voters have peeled away from him. And in particular, one of the groups that swung most to him in the last election, young voters, seem to have snapped back in this poll. It's only one poll.
When we're talking about a small subsample and it's one poll, I need to put this caveat out there that maybe it's just a small sample. But young voters in this poll overwhelmingly disapproved of the president's performance. Sixty nine percent disapproved compared to 26 percent who approved. Wow.
And last November, young voters were fairly closely contested with Kamala Harris only winning a bare majority. This kind of big lopsided 69 to 26 margin against the president and young voters. We didn't find anything like this in any of our polls over the last few years. What do you make of it?
Well, again, there's a big group of voters who were deeply dissatisfied by the Biden administration and were frankly exhausted with Democratic governance, the excesses of woke and the pandemic response and rising costs and so on. And they gave Donald Trump a chance.
And many of them are being reminded of the reasons they didn't like Trump in the first place. And others may outright be repelled by the excesses of his conduct even when they were sympathetic to his aims.
That's exactly right.
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