President Donald Trump’s net approval rating fell to its lowest point of his second term in a new Quinnipiac University poll released on Tuesday. Trump’s net approval rating fell to -27 points, his worst showing yet in any of the pollster’s surveys. He received positive marks from 34 percent of respondents, while 61 percent disapproved of him.
It marks a shift from a Quinnipiac poll released September 10, when his net approval rating was -26 points, with 59 percent disapproving and 33 percent approving of the president. Trump’s approval rating holds major implications for the midterm elections, and Election Day is now only five weeks away. Historically, the president’s party loses seats in the midterms if he is unpopular in the polls, and Democrats have sought to make this year’s elections a referendum on Trump.
His approval rating has fallen as Americans grapple with economic concerns around inflation, the cost of living and soaring gas prices amid the Iran war. Jacob Neiheisel, a political science professor at the University at Buffalo, told Newsweek that there are a few factors that are “likely pulling Trump's numbers downward.” “The war in Iran is certainly one of these. Gas prices and the broader affordability crisis may also be doing some work here,” he said.
The new poll surveyed 1,032 registered voters from September 24 to 27, 2026, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points. Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment via email. The poll found that Trump is broadly unpopular with most voter groups.
Among independents, only 25 percent said they approve of his job performance, compared to 69 percent who said they disapproved of him. Only 4 percent of Democrats approved of Trump, with 96 percent disapproving of him. Among Republicans, his approval rating stood at 81 percent, with 13 percent disapproving.
Women were also less supportive of Trump compared to men, with 26 percent of women and 41 percent of men saying they approve of the president. Trump’s overall approval rating did reach -27 points during his first term in January 2021, after the January 6 riot at the United States Capitol, when a group of his supporters violently protested the 2020 election results. But it has not returned to that low point during his second term in office.
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