Polls

Washington Post -   Trump’s overall approval now stands at 37 percent, largely the same as the 39 percent figure in February. But his disapproval has reached 62 percent, the highest of his two terms in office. Among Republicans, Trump’s approval has held steady at 85 percent, but his ratings among Republican-leaning independents have reached a new low of 56 percent. His approval rating stands at 25 percent among independents overall.

Republicans against Trump

 -  Majorities disapprove of Trump’s handling across all issues, per WaPo/ABC/Ipsos.

Cost of living: 76% disapprove

Inflation: 72%

Iran: 66%

Allies: 65%

Economy: 65%

Taxes: 61%

Immigration: 59%

Border: 54%

Washington Post -  Americans reported the lowest trust in their government to regulate AI responsibly of any country surveyed: just 31 percent. The global average was 54 percent. In Singapore, that number was 81 percent.

New Republic-   President Donald Trump’s poor economic performance is costing him with Sun Belt voters, giving Democrats an opening to win them over ahead of the fall midterm elections—but it will be an uphill battle because these voters largely favor the Republicans right now. That’s the message from a new poll released Wednesday from Way to Win, a left-leaning strategy group.

Way to Win commissioned a March poll of 1,282 likely voters in Arizona, Georgia, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, and Texas that also drilled down into 14 congressional battleground districts in four of those states. The good news for Democrats is that there’s a yawning gap in voters’ enthusiasm in those districts: 72 percent of Democratic voters said they were extremely motivated to vote in November, compared to 34 percent of Republicans and 66 percent of independents.

The bad news is that among those six states, Democrats are ahead only in only one of them—Georgia—on the generic ballot, and down five points overall across all of them. In the battleground districts specifically, voters favor Republicans over Democrats by seven points. This is a stark difference from national generic ballots, where Democrats lead Republicans by five points, on average.

This doesn’t mean voters are happy with Trump and the GOP. In Way to Win’s poll, the president is underwater on the economy by 17 points. That’s significantly lower than his overall approval rating of 49 percent in this poll, which itself is higher in these purple and red states than it is nationally. Respondents were more likely to blame rising costs on GOP politicians and big corporations than Trump’s preferred scapegoats—immigrants, Democrats, and the Federal Reserve.  MORE