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 senator’s job performance. Every quarter, we’ll update this page with the latest tracking data.
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Key Takeaways
Sanders retains top spot: With a 69% approval rating, independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont is the most popular senator in the country for the third quarter running, followed by fellow Vermonter Peter Welch (D), with a 65% approval rating.
McConnell remains the most unpopular: Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) remains America’s most unpopular senator for the 17th successive quarter. The Kentuckian’s popularity at home is yet to recover from steep declines suffered during the end days of the Trump administration at the turn of the 2020 election year, though the share who disapprove of his job performance has declined a bit over the past year.
Schumer holds strong: Despite attacks from progressives nationally, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has maintained his standing among the overall electorate at home, with 51% approving and 35% disapproving of his job performance. He saw a mild dip in support among Democrats in New York, but remains slightly more popular with his party’s base than the state’s junior Democratic senator, Kirsten Gillibrand.
Collins angers Mainers: Ahead of a potential re-election run next year, Republican Susan Collins of Maine’s net approval rating declined by 12 percentage points — more than any other senator’s. A slim 51% majority of Maine voters now disapprove of her, up from 44% from the prior quarter, while 42% approve, down from 47% at the end of last year.
Justice carries popularity to Washington: Jim Justice (R-W.Va.) was consistently one of America’s most popular governors, and early in his term, those good graces have followed him to Washington. Our latest data shows 57% of West Virginia voters approve of his job performance, while 26% disapprove. His approval rating is 10-points less than it was as governor, driven by a higher share not expressing an opinion roughly 3 months into his term.
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America’s most popular and unpopular senators
- Aside from McConnell and Collins, only three other senators — Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) — have higher disapproval ratings than approval ratings. Among that trio, Ernst is the only one up for re-election next year.
- Delegations from states with small populations and a strong partisan lean are heavily represented in the most popular list, continuing a long-term trend we observe in our rankings.
Senators' approval ratings
- Thom Tillis, one of the most vulnerable Republicans up for re-election next year, improved his approval rating from 42% to 43% as his disapproval rating declined from 36% to 34%.
- Jon Ossoff of Georgia, the most vulnerable Senate Democrat on the ballot next year, saw almost no change in his standing, with 52% approving and 30% disapproving.
- John Fetterman, one of the Senate’s most controversial members, continues to grow his popularity: A record-high 50% of Pennsylvania voters approved of the first-term Democrat’s job performance in the first quarter of 2025, alongside a record-low 35% disapproval rating.
- Andy Kim (D-N.J.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) have seen sentiment improve in their states since they first appeared in our tracking last quarter. In New Jersey, the share disapproving of Kim’s job performance fell from 25% to 22%, while the share who gave good marks to Schiff in California increased from 44% to 46%.
How Americans view their newest senators
- Sen. Jon Husted, the Republican who was appointed to fill Vice President JD Vance’s seat, is unknown by roughly 2 in 5 Ohio voters despite serving in statewide office since 2011. As he prepares to campaign for a full term next year, 36% approve and 25% disapprove of his job performance.
- The new Democratic senators from Delaware and Maryland, Lisa Blunt Rochester and Angela Alsobrooks, respectively, have identical 53% approval ratings in their home states, followed by Ruben Gallego of Arizona, who gets good marks from 51% of voters in his state.
- Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) is the most divisive new senator, with 41% approving and 38% disapproving at the onset of his term.
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].
