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Voter Discontent: Trump, Leaders Face Rising Unfavorability Ratings

10/1/2025

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Trump's Approval Struggles

Pew Research Center finds broad dissatisfaction: 58% view Trump unfavorably and 40% favorable.
Trump shows 41% approval and 53% disapproval, with 87% of Republicans backing him.
Vance has a 51% unfavorable rating.
Schumer unfavorability 50%; Johnson 38%; Jeffries 30%.
Democrats disapprove of their congressional leaders 59% to 40%; 38% blame Republicans for a potential government shutdown, 27% blame Democrats.

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Trump's Polling Challenges

Donald Trump has 43% approval and 54% disapproval in New York Times/Siena poll, unchanged since April.
On immigration, 51% say Trump is going too far on enforcement, while 54% back deportation.
The poll used text-message sampling, yielding a more Democratic sample and raising representativeness questions.
Discrepancies in recalled voting history between text and phone respondents suggest bias in self-reported voting.

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Trump's Approval Struggles

Pew Research Center finds broad dissatisfaction: 58% view Trump unfavorably and 40% favorable.
Trump shows 41% approval and 53% disapproval, with 87% of Republicans backing him.
Vance has a 51% unfavorable rating.
Schumer unfavorability 50%; Johnson 38%; Jeffries 30%.
Democrats disapprove of their congressional leaders 59% to 40%; 38% blame Republicans for a potential government shutdown, 27% blame Democrats.

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