Fox poll puts Trump’s approval at 36%, Washington Examiner says

A Fox News poll put Donald Trump’s job approval at 36%, according to the Washington Examiner, which said the result was below the RealClearPolitics average cited in its article. That average showed Trump at 38.7% approval and 59.4% disapproval. The figures describe two different measures: the poll’s result and the average of polls referenced by the Examiner.

The Fox poll showed markedly higher approval among Republican respondents than in its overall result. The Examiner reported approval of 76% among Republicans and 95% among Make America Great Again Republicans. It also gave results of 64% among conservatives and 82% among very conservatives.

The article listed other groups with approval at or above 50%: white men without a college degree at 50%, white evangelicals at 61%, and the military at 53%. Among white women without a degree, the poll measured approval at 40%.

The reported figures show variation across the groups named in the article; they do not provide further detail about how the poll was conducted or how respondents in these categories were defined.

The Examiner connected the approval figures to the coming midterm outlook, describing presidential approval as an important predictor of how a president’s party performs in midterm elections. It said the overall rating and the RealClearPolitics average did not bode well for Republicans.

The article’s author also argued that Trump should have stronger approval among Republicans and among groups where his rating reached 50% or more, assessing that higher Republican approval could improve the party’s midterm prospects. The article pointed to the 50% result among white men without a college degree as particularly low relative to Trump’s prior electoral support.

It described these voters as one of his main bases of support in his elections and said exit polls showed he won 66% of them in 2024. The comparison is between the poll’s approval measure and an exit-poll vote share, which measure different things.

A headline from Asiae.co.kr also described Republicans as being on high alert as Trump’s approval fell and said U.S. campaign-ad spending rose by 600 billion won. The headline does not provide additional poll results or explain the relationship between the approval figure and advertising spending.

The Washington Examiner’s assessment links the approval figures to Republicans’ midterm outlook, while the poll results themselves report approval by group.