People

• Trump began his second term by matching a record-high 52% approval from March 2017, but voters soured on his job performance during the most disruptive part of his trade war, and he’s yet to return to a net positive approval rating.
• At a similar point in Trump’s first term, 45% of voters approved and 51% disapproved of his job performance, leaving his net approval rating better off today than it was at the same time in 2017.

• Trump’s favorability ratings remain underwater, which has been the case more often than not since he took office.
• Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) face relatively low awareness from the electorate.
• Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the most high-profile congressional  leader, is also the most unpopular one, though he’s maintained good numbers at home in New York.

Policy

• Voters are most likely to want Trump to focus on lowering prices for goods and services, and specifically health care affordability, following a campaign that was dominated by voters’ concerns about inflation.
• As Trump works to elevate immigration in the news, 37% say he should make “mass deportations” a top priority, down from a 43% high in early March.

• The president receives his best ratings on national security (53%) and immigration (51%).
• Voters are divided (at 47%) over Trump’s handling of the economy, while he gets his worst marks on health care and Medicare and Social Security.

• Republicans hold sizable advantages over Democrats on trust to handle just two issues: immigration and national security.
• Voters are significantly more likely to trust Democrats to handle LGBTQ+ rights, abortion, Medicare and Social Security and health care.
• Voters are closely divided over whom they trust to handle energy, taxes, the economy, trade, foreign policy and the national debt.

News

• Voters are 14 points more likely to say they’ve heard something negative about Trump than positive, (48% to 34%), up from a second-term low of 24 points reached three weeks ago.
• Few voters say they’ve heard much about Johnson (60%) or Thune (74%) as the two work with Trump to pass the party’s signature legislative package.
• Though Republicans enjoyed a narrow buzz advantage over Democrats between the November elections and the opening months of the second Trump presidency, the inverse has been true more often than not since late March.

• Voters are 20 points more likely to hear something negative than positive about the economy, up from a 32-point buzz deficit reached at the height of Trump’s trade war in late April.
• As was the case throughout much of the 2024 campaign, immigration has been one of the most salient issues voters are hearing about in the news, with 3 in 4 saying they'd heard something recently about it in our latest survey, the most since early February.

• More than half of voters (52%) said they had seen, read or heard “a lot” about the U.S. recent strikes on Iran’s nuclear program, similar to the level of awareness of the L.A. anti-ICE protests, making it one of the year’s most salient stories so far.
• More than half of voters nationwide (56%) said they had heard at least something about Zohran Mamdani's victory in the Democratic primary election for New York City mayor. Amid Republican efforts to villainize the Democratic socialist, the initial story broke through to more Democrats (62%) than Republicans (51%).