Donald Trump’s presidential approval rating stood at 42% in recent days, with the president getting higher marks for his handling of crime and immigration versus the economy, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Tuesday.
The five-day poll, which surveyed 1,084 adults nationwide, also showed 56% of respondents disapproved of Trump’s presidential performance.
The poll included a slight change to its methodology relative to prior Reuters/Ipsos surveys, including one conducted Aug 22-24, no longer giving respondents the option to say they were “not sure” about whether they approved or disapproved of the president’s overall job performance. In that prior survey, 40% of respondents approved of the job Trump was doing and 54% disapproved.
Respondents in the latest poll retained the