Tracking the Approval Ratings of All 100 U.S. Senators
Morning Consult is conducting thousands of surveys every day, asking registered U.S. voters in all 50 states if they approve or disapprove of their senators' job performance. Every quarter, we’ll update this page with the latest tracking data.
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Key Takeaways
Welch takes top spot: With a 65% approval rating among voters in Vermont, Democrat Peter Welch is the most popular senator in the country for the first time. He is followed by fellow Vermonter Bernie Sanders, who despite an identical approval rating is ranked second due to a higher disapproval rating (28% vs. 22%).
McConnell remains the most unpopular: Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) remains America’s most unpopular senator for the 18th successive quarter, with a 59% disapproval rating. The Kentuckian’s popularity at home is yet to recover from steep declines suffered during the end days of the Trump administration from late 2020 into early 2021, though the share who disapprove of his job performance has declined a bit over the past year.
Collins posts record-low approval ratings: The majority of Mainers (54%) disapprove of Republican Sen. Susan Collins’ job performance as she considers a re-election bid. That figure marks a high point in our tracking that dates back to the first quarter of 2017, while her approval rating (38%) has reached a record low.
Fetterman’s the only Democrat facing a base revolt: The first six months of President Donald Trump’s second term brought intense backlash to Democrats in Congress from activists alarmed by a perceived lack of pushback, but that vocal unease isn’t showing up when it comes to each Democratic senator’s backing from the base. There is one outlier: Sen. John Fetterman’s staunch defense of Israel and validation of the GOP’s hawkish position on immigration has helped his image among Republicans, but brought a massive 33-point decline to his net approval rating since the end of 2024. Read more here.
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America’s most popular and unpopular senators
- Aside from McConnell and Collins, only two other senators — Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), whose current term expires in 2029, and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who is up for re-election next year — have net negative approval ratings.
- Delegations from states with small populations and a strong partisan lean are heavily represented in the most popular list, continuing a longtime feature of our rankings.
Senators' approval ratings
- Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) has seen a slight uptick in sentiment since prevailing in a tighter than expected race last fall, leaving voters evenly divided on her job performance.
- Jon Ossoff of Georgia, the most vulnerable Senate Democrat on the ballot next year, saw almost no change in his standing, with 53% approving (up 1 point) and 32% disapproving (up 2 points).
- Two freshman Republicans — Ashley Moody of Florida and Jon Husted of Ohio — are among the Senate’s most unknown members following their appointments this year. Both senators, who are seeking re-election in 2026, saw their approval and disapproval ratings tick up slightly over the first two quarters of the year.
- While Senate Majority Leader John Thune continues to maintain a low national profile, voters in South Dakota have become more fond of their senior senator. Our latest data shows 60% of North Dakota voters approve of his job performance, up from 56% at the beginning of the year.
Methodology
All state-level data is based on a three-month roll-up of responses from Morning Consult’s daily U.S. tracking survey among registered voters. Margins of error among registered voters vary by state, from as low as +/-6 percentage points in less populous states such as Wyoming to +/-1 point in more populous states such as California.
Consult our State-Level Tracking Methodology Primer for additional details on the state-level data sources, including sampling and data collection procedures, weighting and representativeness, margins of error, and question wording.
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Eli Yokley is Morning Consult’s U.S. politics analyst. Eli joined Morning Consult in 2016 from Roll Call, where he reported on House and Senate campaigns after five years of covering state-level politics in the Show Me State while studying at the University of Missouri in Columbia, including contributions to The New York Times, Politico and The Daily Beast. Follow him on Twitter @eyokley. Interested in connecting with Eli to discuss his analysis or for a media engagement or speaking opportunity? Email [email protected].
Cameron Easley is Morning Consult’s head of U.S. Political Analysis. He has led Morning Consult's coverage of U.S. politics and elections since 2016, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Politico, Axios, FiveThirtyEight and on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC. Cameron joined Morning Consult from Roll Call, where he was managing editor. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Follow him on Twitter @cameron_easley. Interested in connecting with Cameron to discuss his analysis or for a media engagement or speaking opportunity? Email [email protected].
