In Reply to: RIP, Tom Lehrer posted by mh on July 27, 2025 at 11:53:25
It’s hard to characterize just how bad 29% approval with independents is. You can explain the number in a couple of ways: First, 29% is somewhere between 11 and 17 percentage points lower than the president’s share of the vote with independents in the 2024 election (VoteCast says 40%, Edison says 46%). That means that roughly one out of every three political independents who voted for Trump in the 2024 election now says they disapprove of how he’s governing.
As it turns out, 29% among independents is also a record low for Trump, according to Gallup. Here is their trend for Trump among indies in his first term. He bottomed out at 30% after the attempted coup on Jan. 6, 2021.