Trump approval rating jumps to highest level of his presidency in Washington Post/ABC News poll.
President Donald Trump’s job approval rating reached its highest level since he took office in polling conducted by The Washington Post and ABC News, according to a survey released Sunday.
Forty-four percent of Americans say they approve of the job Trump is doing as president in The Washington Post/ABC News poll, which was conducted from June 28 to July 1 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. That was 5 points higher than his approval in a poll from April, and it surpassed his previous high of 42% in April 2017.
Fifty-one percent of Americans say he is doing a good job on the economy, which is ranked as a highly important issue for 82% of adults heading into the 2020 election.
The president has consistently taken credit for positive economic data and said he would do even better in the polls were it not for what he considers unfair news coverage and the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
Forty-seven percent of Americans say Trump deserves most of the credit for the economy, 27% say he should get “only some” credit, 20% say he deserves “hardly any” and 4% say he deserves none.
The poll numbers highlight many of the challenges facing the president as he ramps up his campaign for reelection.