President Donald Trump’s approval rating has held at 32%, near the lowest of his political career, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Monday, with public anxiety over rising prices weighing heavily on his standing after last week’s midterm elections.
The figure is unchanged from two earlier Reuters/Ipsos polls conducted between late October and early November. It sits one percentage point above the 31% recorded in mid-October, the lowest rating of Trump’s career in politics, the poll found.
The survey underlines how the cost of living has become the defining weakness of Trump’s second presidency. Just 21% of Americans approved of his management of the cost of living, and only 25% gave him a positive rating on the economy as a whole. The war Trump launched against Iran in February has pushed fuel prices sharply higher and squeezed household finances, and his low rating on the issue has also damaged his allies in Congress.
That damage was on full display in the November 3 midterm elections, in which Trump’s Republican Party suffered a sweeping defeat, losing control of both chambers of Congress. With some races still undecided, Democrats recorded their biggest victory in the House of Representatives since at least 2008 and flipped Senate seats in traditionally conservative states including Kansas, South Carolina and Texas.
Immigration remains Trump’s strongest ground. His approval rating on immigration policy stood at 38%, considerably higher than his economic score. Some 81% of Republicans in the poll supported his immigration approach, compared with 50% who did so on the cost of living. Trump has aggressively ramped up deportations since returning 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.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online nationwide from November 6 to 9, gathering responses from 1,705 US adults, with a margin of error of about 2 percentage points.
Sources: Reuters — “Trump approval holds at 32%, near lowest of his career, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds” (https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-approval-holds-32-near-lowest-his-career-reuters-ipsos-poll-finds-2026-11-09/)
