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.
• At a similar point in Trump’s first term, 44% of voters approved and 51% disapproved of his job performance, leaving his net approval rating today higher than it was then.

• 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 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.
• Just over a third of voters (37%) said the federal government should make the deportation of undocumented immigrants a top priority, compared with 57% who think it is.

• The president receives his best ratings on immigration (53%) and national security (53%). 
• Nearly half of voters (47%) disapprove of Trump’s handling of the economy, the highest disapproval rating of any specific issue.

• Republicans hold advantages over Democrats on trust to handle immigration and national security.
• Voters are more likely to trust Democrats to handle health care, LGBTQ+ rights, abortion and the major U.S. entitlement programs. 
• Voters are closely divided over whom they trust to handle the economy, energy, the national debt, taxes, trade and foreign policy.

News

• Voters are 17 points more likely to say they’ve heard something negative about Trump than positive, an improvement from a second-term low reached in April.
• Few voters say they’ve heard much about Johnson or Thune 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, that hasn’t been the case since late March.

• Voters are 18 points more likely to hear something negative than positive about the economy, a 14-point improvement since 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 roughly 7 in 10 saying they'd heard something recently about it.

• Just 27% of voters say they’ve heard a lot about the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that would make changes to the tax system, increase funding for defense spending and border security, and decrease funding for Medicaid and the development of renewable energy sources.
• Less than half (42%) said they’ve heard something about the release of a new political reporting book called “Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” up from 36% in May.