Trump favorability higher than at start of first term: Poll
President Trump’s favorability rating at the start of his second term is significantly higher than it was when he first took office in January 2017, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.
In the survey, conducted a few days after Trump was sworn into office, 47 percent of registered voters said they had a favorable opinion of Trump, while 45 percent said they had an unfavorable view of him. Another 8 percent said they either had not heard enough or refused to answer.
That's a marked change from the results of a similar survey conducted a few days after Trump took office in January 2017. At the time, 39 percent of respondents had a favorable view of Trump, while 52 percent had an unfavorable view of him. Another 8 percent said they haven’t heard enough or refused to answer.
That increase in his favorability is driven by Republicans and independents.
Ninety-one percent of Republicans said they had a favorable view of Trump at the start of his second term, up from 86 percent in 2017. In both polls, 6 percent of Republicans held unfavorable views of Trump.
Among independents, 43 percent say they had a favorable view of Trump this month, and 48 percent have an unfavorable view. That reflects a narrowing of the margin from 2017, when 37 percent of independents viewed Trump favorably and 52 percent viewed him unfavorably.
Democrats’ views on Trump, meanwhile, have barely moved since the January 2017 poll — with only 5 percent viewing him favorably in both polls; his unfavorable rating moved from 89 percent in 2017 to 88 percent in 2025.
The survey of 1,019 registered voters was conducted Jan. 23-27 and has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.
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