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, 44% 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.) still face relatively low awareness from the electorate, though awareness about the top House Democrat improved a bit following his pushback against Trump’s legislative agenda.
• 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 reach foreign trade deals, just 23% say he should make the imposition of tariffs a “top priority.” At the same time, 47% think he is making tariffs a top priority, in line with the average over his term.

• The president receives his best ratings on national security (51%) and immigration (50%).
• Voters are divided over Trump’s handling of the economy, while he gets his worst marks on health care, abortion and LGBTQ rights.

• 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 17 points more likely to say they’ve heard something negative about Trump than positive, (48% to 32%), up from a second-term low of 24 points reached last month.
• 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 13 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 roughly 7 in 10 saying they'd heard something recently about it in our latest survey.

• Four in 5 voters said they had seen, read or heard “some” or “a lot” about the deadly flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas, including 59% who said they’d heard “a lot.” That’s in line with the salience of the other biggest news stories of the year so far, including the Palisades and Eaton wildfires in the Los Angeles metro area and the death of Pope Francis.
• Less than a quarter of voters (22%) said they’d heard a lot about the rise in U.S. measles cases to their highest level in 33 years. That’s less than the 24% who said the same of news that the Justice Department found no evidence of a client list or blackmail scheme involving Jeffrey Epstein and prominent people, but more than the 17% who said they’d heard a lot about the Trump administration resuming the transfer of weapons to Ukraine after reports that the Pentagon was withholding a shipment.