Poll: Trump’s Rust Belt approval ratings higher than national average

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President Trump’s national approval rating has been underwater since he took office, but new state-specific data from SurveyMonkey show better-than-average marks in the Rust Belt states that made him president.

Trump had greater than 50 percent approval ratings in 13 reliably Republican states. Wyoming was at the top with 59 percent, according to three months of weekly survey data from June 1 to Aug. 31 that showed lowest approval in the nation’s capital at 12 percent.

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