A new poll is showing warning signs for President Donald Trump.
The latest Morning Consult results revealed that Trump’s approval rating is in the negatives in all key battleground states for the first time since he returned to the White House. Trump won all seven states during his 2024 election victory against former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump is underwater in Wisconsin (-8), Michigan (-5), Nevada (-3), North Carolina (-3), Pennsylvania (-2), Arizona (-2) and Georgia (-1), according to the poll, which was updated Tuesday. It also indicated that his approval rating is above water in 24 states — down one since last month — after Georgia and Arizona became the latest to flip, with more voters disapproving than approving of the president’s time in office.
Meanwhile, the tracker shows that Trump is facing headwinds on his job performance in states that are expected to elect a new governor in November. In New Jersey, 42% of respondents said they approve of Trump’s actions, which is down from 44% during the first quarter, while 54% disapprove. The same goes for Virginia: 43% of voters approve of his job performance, down from 47%, and 54% disapprove.
The races in each state have emerged as tests for both parties ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. While it is typical for the party controlling the White House to lose seats, Democrats are appearing to face their own set of challenges.
Charles Gasparino, a senior correspondent for Fox Business Network, said the poll’s new findings, reported by Newsweek, have “got to be scary for the White House” in a post on X. He pointed to Trump’s “recent foreign policy success,” as Israel and Hamas agreed to a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal, as well as his “successes to end wokeness” and “change the country in a better direction.”
Gasparino suspected that his low approval ratings in several states are tied to the economy, which emerged as one of his top issues on the campaign trail.
“It doesn’t suck, but it’s still not good enough to make up for the lack of purchasing power lost during the Biden years,” Gasparino said, while noting the impact of tariffs, the stock market and gold prices.
Trump also stands with a higher disapproval than approval across other recent polls. According to a daily poll tracker from The New York Times, 43% of Americans approve of Trump’s job performance, while 54% disapprove. Polling expert Nate Silver found Trump’s net approval rating to be -8.4, which is a slight improvement from one week ago, when it stood at -9.3. A YouGov/The Economist poll, released Tuesday, showed that 40% of Americans approved of Trump’s performance as president, while 55% disapproved.
Rasmussen Reports, a conservative-leaning pollster, had Trump’s ratings to be more divided as of Wednesday: 50% of likely U.S. voters support Trump’s actions, while 49% oppose them.
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