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Donald Trump Approval Rating Tumbles With Republicans (Quinnipiac Poll)
Newsweek ^ | 02/06/2026 | Sam Stevenson

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."

Why It Matters

It signals a measurable softening in GOP support over just more than three months, as overall approval numbers also trended lower in multiple national surveys.

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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That poll was based on interviews with 1,191 registered voters and a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points, using the same probability-based methodology with live interviewers on landlines and cellphones.
1 posted on 02/06/2026 10:48:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

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!


2 posted on 02/06/2026 10:52:13 AM PST by eboyer
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To: SeekAndFind

No fear, it’s just NewsWoke.


3 posted on 02/06/2026 10:52:45 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: SeekAndFind
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Prove me wrong.

4 posted on 02/06/2026 10:53:26 AM PST by broken_clock (Go Trump! Prayers answered!)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s Quinnipiac 8 months from an election. In other words, it’s meaningless.


5 posted on 02/06/2026 10:53:41 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I voted for him 6 times—and he lost me over broken immigration promises and immigration lies, now backing amnesty over deportations.


6 posted on 02/06/2026 10:53:49 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: SeekAndFind

Because he hasn’t sent the H-1B Indians home. Millions of tech workers are pissed.


7 posted on 02/06/2026 10:54:03 AM PST by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: eboyer

His supporters don’t understand what the big deal is, and everyone else will forget about it in a day.


8 posted on 02/06/2026 10:54:21 AM PST by Kleon
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To: SeekAndFind

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


9 posted on 02/06/2026 10:55:02 AM PST by stanne
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To: SeekAndFind
It's noise. All leftist noise. In the past week, media has been posting polls and articles insisting Trump is losing the support of his voters. He is not. Don't believe it. By the way,

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.

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10 posted on 02/06/2026 10:56:23 AM PST by CFW
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To: eboyer

Joe Biden and Obama supporter I see...


11 posted on 02/06/2026 10:57:38 AM PST by dpetty121263
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah? Who did they poll? Susan Collins, lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham


12 posted on 02/06/2026 10:57:44 AM PST by Bob434 (NYWAYS)
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To: jroehl
Because he hasn’t sent the H-1B Indians home. Millions of tech workers are pissed.

You are 100% correct.
13 posted on 02/06/2026 11:00:50 AM PST by E Pluribus Bellum
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To: eboyer

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.


14 posted on 02/06/2026 11:03:32 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: eboyer

Trump has done more for conservatives than anyone. Why are you here?


15 posted on 02/06/2026 11:05:53 AM PST by kaila
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To: eboyer

“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”?


16 posted on 02/06/2026 11:06:08 AM PST by God luvs America
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To: MtnClimber

The Buck Stops Here.

He posted it. Bottom line.


17 posted on 02/06/2026 11:06:37 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: SeekAndFind

Where have these polls been for the last year?


18 posted on 02/06/2026 11:06:55 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: SeekAndFind

Registered voter polls are historically much less accurate than Likely Voter polls.


19 posted on 02/06/2026 11:08:20 AM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: eboyer

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.


20 posted on 02/06/2026 11:09:20 AM PST by JayGalt ( “The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must”.)
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