The latest Gallup poll has come out and with it comes great news for the president. Besides the fact that he got his highest approval rating of all time. he also finished in positive territory in the approval/disapproval ratings with a plus four. The president has a 495 approval rating, with a disapproval of 45% for a plus 4 rating.
This poll closely mirrors the recent Harris poll that gave Trump a 50% approval and a 46% disapproval for an identical +4 rating. The Harris poll also showed that 60% of the voters approve the way Trump is handling the coronavirus crises. In the Gallup poll, Trump improved his approval rating by 8% and another increase of 6% among Democrats.
According to Gallup, Trump had twice previously posted a 49 percent approval rating, his high mark as president. Both occurred earlier in 2020 as the impeachment trial concluded in the Senate.
Democrats and Independents both approve of Trump at higher rates than they did in the previous Gallup poll. 43 percent of Independents currently approve of the president, an 8 point bump from the previous poll, and 13 percent of Democrats responded in kind, nearly doubling the previous poll’s mark of 7.
Trump’s approvals were even higher when the poll asked bout his coronavirus response specifically. 60 percent of all participants approved, including 94 percent of Republicans, 60 percent of independents, and 27 percent of Democrats, while 38 percent disapproved.
A Harris poll published on March 19 showed 56 percent of respondents approved of the president’s coronavirus response. A Monmouth University poll released Monday showed that while only 50 percent of surveyed participants approved of Trump’s handling of the pandemic, only 45 percent of the same sample approved of the media’s coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.