Donald Trump popularity survey: Donald Trump is now less popular than ex-US President Joe Biden? Poll Survey reveals shocking results

U.S. voters changed presidents, but they’re not feeling better about Donald Trump’s economy, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs poll. The poll found that 36 per cent of U.S. adults approve of how Trump is handling the economy, a figure that has held steady this year after he imposed tariffs that caused broad economic uncertainty. Among Republicans, 71 per cent feel positive about his economic leadership. Yet that approval within Trump’s own party is relatively low in ways that could be problematic for Republicans in next month’s races for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, and perhaps even in the 2026 midterm elections. At roughly the same point in Biden’s term, in October 2021, an AP-NORC poll found that 41 per cent of U.S. adults approved of how he was handling the economy, including about 73 per cent of Democrats. That overall number was a little higher than Trump’s, primarily because of independents — 29 per cent approved of how Biden was handling the economy, compared with the 18 per cent who currently support Trump’s approach.

Americans are growing increasingly concerned about their ability to find a good job under President Donald Trump, an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs poll finds, in what is a potential warning sign for Republicans as a promised economic boom has given way to hiring freezes and elevated inflation.

High prices for groceries, housing and health care persist as a fear for many households, while rising electricity bills and the cost of gas at the pump are also sources of anxiety, according to the survey.
Some 47 per cent of U.S. adults are “not very” or “not at all confident” they could find a good job if they wanted to, an increase from 37 per cent when the question was last asked in October 2023.

The job market was meaningfully stronger in terms of hiring during Biden’s presidency as the United States was recovering from pandemic-related lockdowns. But hiring has slowed sharply under Trump with monthly job gains averaging less than 27,000 after the April tariff announcements.

The AP-NORC poll of 1,289 adults was conducted between October 9-13, using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for adults overall is plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.

FAQs

Q1. What do we know about AP-NORC poll?
A1. The AP-NORC poll of 1,289 adults was conducted between October 9-13, using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for adults overall is plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.

Q2. Who is President of USA?
A2. President of USA is Donald Trump.