53% Now View Trump Favorably
As he prepares to become president for the second time, Donald Trump is viewed more favorably now than he was before first taking office.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 53% of Likely U.S. Voters have a favorable impression of Trump, including 35% with a Very Favorable opinion. Forty-six percent (46%) view Trump unfavorably, including 39% with a Very Unfavorable impression. Trump’s favorability is slightly higher than in December 2016, when 51% of voters had a favorable opinion of him. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The survey of 1,266 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on November 20-21 and 24, 2024 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC.
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