President-elect Trump will take office with a 40 percent approval rating, one of the lowest among recent presidents entering the White House.
A CNN/ORC poll released Tuesday showed Trump is coming to Washington with an approval rating less than half of President Obama’s 84 percent approval rating in January 2009. He’s more than 20 percent below former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton as well, who came in with 61 percent and 67 percent approval ratings respectively.
According to the poll, Trump’s approval rating has dropped since he won the election in November, a rarity.
The poll reported the amount of people who support how he’s handled the transition has dropped 7 percent, and the amount of people who think he’s going to do a good job in office dropped 5 percent. The poll showed a 10 percent drop in the public’s confidence in Trump’s ability to be president.
Still, most people believe Trump will deliver on some of his campaign promises.
The poll shows 71 percent of people believe it’s “at least somewhat likely” he’ll put a tax on companies who import goods from Mexico, 61 percent think he may renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, and 61 percent think he’ll bring well-paying jobs to economically challenged areas.
Less than half of people think he’ll be able to build his promised wall along the southern border with Mexico and only 29 percent of people think he’ll end up getting Mexico to pay for it.
The poll was done between Jan. 12 and Jan. 15 among a sample of 1,000 adults. The margin of error is 3 percentage points.
