President Trump's approval ratings slide, but Democrats' poll numbers hitting new lows

President Donald Trump has immoderate polling problems with his support ratings sliding into antagonistic territory since helium reentered the White House 3 and a fractional months ago. But he's acold from unsocial erstwhile it comes to taking a governmental punch successful nationalist opinion.

The opposing Democratic Party's favorable ratings support sinking to caller lows.

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin said this past play successful a "Fox News Sunday" interrogation that the party's absorption close present is "squarely connected making definite that we basal up for hardworking Americans who are being near down successful this Trump economy."

But galore Americans seemingly don't judge that Democrats are up to the task.

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Then-Vice President Kamala Harris delivers her statesmanlike information acceptance code astatine the Democratic National Convention connected Aug. 22, 2024, successful Chicago. The latest nationalist sentiment polls bespeak the Democratic Party sinking to caller favorability lows. (Fox News - Paul Steinhauser)

The Democrats' ratings stood underwater successful the latest Fox News nationalist canvass astatine 41% favorable and 56% unfavorable successful a survey conducted April 18-21.

That's an all-time debased for the Democrats successful Fox News polling. And for the archetypal clip successful a decade, the party's lasting was little than that of the GOP, which stood astatine 44% favorable and 54% unfavorable.

The figures were reversed past summer, erstwhile Fox News past asked the enactment favorability question successful 1 of its surveys.

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The Fox News canvass is acold from an outlier.

The Democratic Party's favorable ratings were good successful antagonistic territory successful a Pew Research nationalist survey - 38% favorable, 60% unfavorable - conducted successful aboriginal April and astatine 36% favorable, 60% unfavorable successful a Wall Street Journal canvass successful the tract a mates of weeks earlier.

And nationalist polls conducted successful February by Quinnipiac University and March by CNN and by NBC News besides indicated the favorable ratings for the Democratic Party sinking to all-time lows.

But there's more.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., right, is joined by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., for a property league successful Statuary Hall astatine the Capitol connected Feb. 12, 2025. The latest nationalist surveys bespeak assurance successful legislature Democrats has deteriorated. (AP/Rod Lamkey Jr./File)

Confidence successful the Democratic Party's legislature leadership sunk to an all-time low, according to a Gallup canvass conducted aboriginal past month.

The assurance standing for Democrats' enactment successful Congress stood astatine 25% successful the survey, which was 9 points beneath the erstwhile debased of 34% recorded successful 2023.

The semi-annual Harvard Youth Poll, which was released precocious past month, indicated that support ratings for Democrats successful Congress among Americans aged 18-29 nosedived.

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An ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos canvass conducted successful mid-April indicated that much respondents trusted Trump (40%) than Democrats successful Congress (32%) to grip the nation's main problems.

And a Reuters/Ipsos canvass conducted precocious past period suggested Republicans clasp a important vantage implicit Democrats connected 2 apical issues: the system and immigration.

The Democratic Party has been successful the governmental wilderness since past November's predetermination setbacks, erstwhile Republicans won backmost power of the White House and the Senate and defended their fragile House majority. And Republicans made gains among Black and Hispanic voters arsenic good arsenic younger voters, each accepted members of the Democratic Party's base.

Since Trump's instrumentality to power, an progressively aggravated and energized basal of Democrats is pushing for enactment leaders to instrumentality a stronger basal successful pushing backmost against the president's sweeping and arguable docket during the opening months of his 2nd administration.

"What we've seen implicit the past fewer months is immoderate Democrats taking it upon themselves to tackle what has been a larger marque occupation implicit the past decennary and a half," a Democrat strategist and communicator who's a seasoned of statesmanlike campaigns told Fox News.

The choler not lone astatine Trump and Republicans but besides astatine chap Democrats appears to beryllium a origin successful the party's polling woes, with the driblet successful positivity toward the Democrats successful the Fox News canvass partially being a self-inflicted wound. Party favorability among self-identified Democrats plunged 10 points from past summertime (87%) to past period (77%) successful the survey.

At the aforesaid time, the Republican Party saw a flimsy betterment among their enactment faithful: 83% of self-identified Republicans had a favorable presumption successful 2024 vs. 85% successful April.

Fox News polling shows the Democratic Party performing poorly successful support adjacent among self-identified Democrats. (Fox News)

But there's a metallic lining for the Democrats.

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"The higher favorable standing for the Republican Party is wholly owed to Democrats feeling little favorable toward their enactment than Republicans bash toward theirs," said Democrat pollster Chris Anderson, who conducts the Fox News surveys with Republican Daron Shaw. "This successful and of itself is improbable to construe into midterm occurrence for the GOP arsenic Democrats accidental they volition astir universally ballot for their enactment and independents favour the Democrats arsenic well."

The Fox News canvass indicates that if the 2026 midterm elections were held today, 49% of voters would backmost a generic Democrat successful their legislature district, with 42% supporting the generic Republican candidate.

Fox News' Victoria Balara contributed to this report.