President Donald Trump’s approval rating remains pinned near the lowest level of his political career, dragged down by widespread public anxiety over rising prices that helped sink his Republican Party in last week’s midterm elections, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Monday.
Some 32% of Americans approve of Trump’s performance in the White House, unchanged from two prior Reuters/Ipsos polls conducted between late October and early November. The figure sits just one percentage point above his 31% rating in a mid-October Reuters/Ipsos poll — the lowest of his career in politics.
Republicans Lose Both Chambers of Congress
Trump’s Republican Party suffered a staggering defeat in the November 3 midterm elections, losing control of both chambers of the US Congress. With some races still undecided, Democrats scored their biggest victory in the House of Representatives since at least 2008 while flipping Senate seats in traditionally conservative states including Kansas, South Carolina and Texas.
Cost of Living Emerges as a Political Liability
The poll showed just 21% of Americans giving Trump a thumbs-up on his management of the cost of living. The war launched by the president on Iran in February has raised fuel prices sharply and weighed on household finances. Trump’s low rating on the issue has also hurt his allies in Congress.
Trump’s approval rating on immigration policy, at 38%, remains considerably higher than the 25% rating Americans give his economic stewardship.
Immigration Remains a Bright Spot Within the Base
Some 81% of Republicans in the poll supported Trump’s immigration approach, compared with 50% who did so on the cost of living. Trump has aggressively ramped up deportations of immigrants since he returned to the White House in January 2025 and last week promoted Stephen Miller, a key architect of those policies, to be the new White House chief of staff.
Polling Methodology
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online nationwide from November 6 to 9, gathering responses from 1,705 US adults. It had a margin of error of about 2 percentage points.
- Overall approval: 32%
- Approval on cost of living: 21%
- Approval on the economy: 25%
- Approval on immigration: 38%
- Republican support for immigration approach: 81%
- Republican support for cost-of-living handling: 50%
