Terry Jones of Issues and Insights analyzes new polling data involving President Donald Trump.
With the never-ending swirl of action around President Donald Trump, it’s often hard to tell how voters perceive his actions. In this month’s I&I/TIPP Poll, there’s been some erosion in Trump’s scores from voters as they pause to ponder the dizzying array of issues he is tackling.
With everything from military attacks on drug cartels to trying to keep the Israeli-Hamas Oct. 10 ceasefire from unraveling to going on a wide trade swing through Asia (including finalizing a trade deal with China), Trump’s October was filled with action on several prominent issues.
Despite what Trump supporters might consider a highly successful month in October on key issues, his favorability ratings have slipped. This month’s national online poll was taken from Oct. 28 to Oct. 31 by 1,418 adults, with a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percentage points
Each month, I&I/TIPP asks voters the following question: “Overall, is your opinion of Donald Trump generally favorable, generally unfavorable, or are you not familiar enough to say one way or the other?”
Overall, in November, 41% held a favorable opinion of Trump, while 49% held an unfavorable opinion and another 10% said they weren’t familiar enough to say (6%) or that they weren’t sure (4%).
This is down a bit from October, when 43% held a favorable opinion of Trump, while 46% were unfavorable. So Trump’s net favorability score fell from minus 3% in October to minus 8% in November.
So where was the erosion? Mostly among independents.
Democrats and Republicans shifted little in terms of how favorably they saw Trump’s presidency. But independents fell somewhat: In October, 34% of indies had favorable views of Trump, while 54% were unfavorable and 12% were no opinion/not sure.
In November, the indie favorability dropped to 31%, while the unfavorable rose to 56%. So the independent negative reading fell from minus 10% to minus 15%.
