Nearly 50% of voters approve of the job President Trump is doing, according to a new poll.
The president’s approval rating is 49%, with 47% of voters disapproving of the president’s performance, according to a poll from Emerson Polling.
His popularity is highest among voters between those aged 30-49. The bump is an improvement from Trump’s July approval, when 45% of voters approved of his performance. His approval among older voters has fallen 9 points since February, from 50% approval to 41% approval in August.
“The Republican convention gave Trump his most positive week of news coverage, which likely attributes to his bounce in this month’s poll and increasing job approval,” director of Emerson College Polling, Spencer Kimball, said.
The poll surveyed 1,567 likely voters and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points. Respondents were surveyed between Aug. 30-31.
An aggregate of Trump’s approval ratings during August, compiled by RealClearPolitics, shows the president’s approval sits at 44.4% and disapproval at 58.3%. While approval of the president spiked in March during the earliest parts of the coronavirus pandemic, voters’ disapproval of his handling of COVID-19 was reflected in the polling, with fewer voters approving of his performance in June.
The poll also offered positive news for Trump’s reelection campaign. The president is polling within the margin of error, trailing Joe Biden by 2 points. In a July poll, the president was 4 points behind the former vice president. However, Trump is trailing Biden by 8 points among independents, a demographic the president won in 2016 by 4 percentage points.
A poll from The Hill/HarrisX recently found that black voters are warming to the president’s message. Twenty-four percent of black voters approve of the job Trump is doing, a rise of 9 percentage points.
