The latest updates to Silver’s ongoing poll tracking showed “Trump’s numbers keep trending down,” he reported, with the president’s approval rating falling below 40 percent for the first time in his second term, and hitting “a new low.” In the latest issue of Silver’s newsletter, he elaborated on what was contributing to Trump’s polling struggles, pointing out that Trump had seen a “remarkably linear” decline in his approval ratings, with “peaks and valleys” that “correlate with particular news events,” like the imposition of his tariffs, the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis, the shutdown over DHS funding, and start of the Iran War. The damage to Trump’s approval ratings traces to “about a week into the war when markets started to freak out over the likelihood of a prolonged disruption to oil shipments in the Persian Gulf,” wrote Silver, sharing a graph from GasBuddy data.
Author: Sarah Rumpf
Published at: 2026-03-30 21:38:04
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