President Trump’s approval rating has dipped to 32 percent and reached a new low among women, according to a new Monmouth University poll released Wednesday.
The percentage of women who approve of Trump’s job performance has declined 12 points — to 24 percent — since September, when 36 percent of women thought the president was doing a satisfactory job in office. Among Republican women, Trump’s approval rating has dropped nine percentage points over the past three months.
But the president’s most severe loss of support comes from independent women voters. Just 14 percent of that group approve of his job performance, a 25-point drop since September.
“This result is not good for the president, especially coming off the loss of his endorsed candidate in the Alabama Senate race,” Monmouth University Polling Institute director Patrick Murray said in a statement, referring to Roy Moore’s historic defeat in Tuesday’s special election.
“Republicans have to be worried about being dragged down by the weight of Trump’s negatives in 2018 if this trend continues,” Murray added.
Women voters’ record-low support for Trump comes at a national moment of reckoning for powerful men across a variety of industries who have engaged in sexual misconduct or routine sexual harassment. Trump himself has been accused of making inappropriate sexual advances by 16 women, three of whom re-emerged earlier this week to call for a congressional investigation into the president’s behavior.
Trump has denied all of the accusations against him, and accused Democrats on Tuesday of “moving on to the false accusations and fabricated stories of women who I don’t know and/or have never met” to distract from their inability “to show any collusion [between his campaign associates] with Russia.”
Nearly one in six voters (59 percent) currently view sexual harassment as “a serious problem” in the United States, according to the Monmouth poll. And most Americans believe recent reports about various instances of sexual harassment by Republican (55 percent) and Democratic (56 percent) members of Congress have been truthful and accurate.
The Monmouth University poll of 806 U.S. adults was conducted between Dec. 10-12. Results contain a margin of error plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
