Posted on 02/06/2026 10:48:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
President Donald Trump’s approval rating with Republicans has taken an eight-point hit since the fall, according to data from a national polling series.
Newsweek contacted the White House via email for comment outside regular working hours.
Republican National Committee (RNC) national press secretary Kiersten Pels told Newsweek that Trump has "lowered prices, secured the border, and ensured workers keep more of their hard-earned pay," adding: "With strong momentum, Republicans are united, energized, and ready to win in the midterms."
While not a collapse, this slide in GOP approval this early in the cycle could ripple into turnout, candidate recruitment, and party unity—factors that will shape Republicans’ leverage in the 2026 midterms.
Republican net approval (the percentage of those who approved minus those who disapproved) of Trump’s job performance dropped from a +90-point rating in October to a +76-point rating in early February, according to two Quinnipiac University national polls.
Quinnipiac’s October 16–20, 2025, national poll reported that 94 percent of self-identified Republican registered voters approved of Trump’s handling of the presidency, 4 percent disapproved, and 2 percent did not know or did not answer.
The survey was based on interviews with 1,327 registered voters and a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points, using probability-based random digit dialing with live interviewers calling landlines and cellphones.
Quinnipiac’s January 29–February 2, 2026, national poll found 86 percent of self-identified Republican registered voters approved of Trump’s job performance, 10 percent disapproved, and 4 percent did not know or did not answer.
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he is a frigging disaster is why
the latest racist video gaffe is just another example of him being the dumbest guy in the room.
optics matter!
No fear, it’s just NewsWoke.
It’s Quinnipiac 8 months from an election. In other words, it’s meaningless.
I voted for him 6 times—and he lost me over broken immigration promises and immigration lies, now backing amnesty over deportations.
Because he hasn’t sent the H-1B Indians home. Millions of tech workers are pissed.
His supporters don’t understand what the big deal is, and everyone else will forget about it in a day.
Does Newsweek understand how the election system works?
His rationing among this poll or any other do not matter
If the GOP wants to not work at winning the midterms that’s a matter that has nothing to do with this
Quinnipiac should do a poll among GOP congressional
A US Appeals court has just vacated an activist judge’s injunction which halted President Trump’s executive order gutting DEI in the federal government.
President Trump is now free to fire ANY AND ALL DEI hires which plague the executive branch.
Joe Biden and Obama supporter I see...
Yeah? Who did they poll? Susan Collins, lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham
Trump stated that the video was reposted by an aide. The 0bama clip was supposed to be at the very last few seconds. It is possible the aide did not watch the entire video before reposting. The left plays fast and loose with facts.
Trump has done more for conservatives than anyone. Why are you here?
“racist video gaffe”
LMAO- does it bother you white people have been constantly accused of benefiting from “privilege” the past decade?? Is that a “racist gaffe”?
The Buck Stops Here.
He posted it. Bottom line.
Where have these polls been for the last year?
Registered voter polls are historically much less accurate than Likely Voter polls.
Optics matter to frivolous folks. Other folks look past partisan hit jobs to accomplishments.
How ridiculous to ignore closing the border, reducing America’s crime rate to levels unseen in decades., avoiding the biggest tax increase in history, returning industry to USA, making America energy secure, ending 8 conflicts, building back the military and dozens of other promises kept. Not to mention exposing fraud in Government spending and elections and finally codifying voting security.
Partisan posturers desperate to find fault only beclown themselves.
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