New Poll Has Trump Underwater with ALL Demographics — Including 45 Point Deficit With Hispanics
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A new poll from Pew Research Center offered a grim assessment of President Donald Trump’s approval rating, with him underwater across all demographic groups and on all issues polled.
The poll was conducted from April 7 to 13, 2025 either online or with a live telephone interviewer questioning 3,589 adults selected from the membership of Pew’s American Trends Panel, which the organization describes as “a group of people recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses who have agreed to take surveys regularly.” The polling sample all reported voting in the 2024 elections and “is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other factors.”
When survey respondents were asked if they approve or disapprove of Trump’s handing of the job of president, 40% said approve and 59% disapprove — and the detailed breakdown of those answers illustrated how polarizing the president is, with 31% very strongly approve, 9% not so strongly approve, 10% not so strongly disapprove, and 48% very strongly disapprove.
This was a drop from Pew’s Jan. 27 – Feb. 2 poll, in which 47% approved of Trump (37% very strongly, 9% not so strongly) and 51% disapproved (11% not strongly, 40% very strongly).
The president’s approval rating has declined across the board and is now underwater with every single group except Republicans and self-identified Trump voters.
This may portend a bumpy road for Republicans in the 2026 midterms. In his election wins in 2016 and 2024, Trump had gained ground with a number of groups traditionally viewed as more likely to vote for Democrats; this poll shows him losing ground both with those left-leaning groups and those viewed as part of the GOP base.
Among men, 59% disapprove and 40% approve of Trump, and for women, it’s 62% who disapprove and 37% approve. Trump is slightly underwater with Whites (51% disapprove to 49% approve), and deeply in the hole with all other groups (82% disapprove/14% approve among Blacks, 72% disapprove/27% approve among Hispanics, and 69% disapprove/29% approve among Asians). Trump is also losing voters without a college degree, with 55% disapproving and 43% approving.
Graphic via Pew Research Center.
The poll didn’t get any sunnier for Trump when broken down by specific issue, with the president once again underwater on all topics, even those that have been viewed by voters as more of his strengths, like the economy and immigration.
Graphic via Pew Research Center.
As expected, there is of course a strong partisan divide in how confident poll respondents were that Trump would handle these issues well, but confidence in the president dropped across party lines, with a noticeably sharp drop regarding the economy. The chaotic rollout of Trump’s tariffs has been especially unpopular. Immigration showed a softer decline, but even Republicans are less confident in Trump’s handling of the issue.
Graphic via Pew Research Center.
Read the polling memo here.
