President Donald Trump’s rollicking start to his second term is being bolstered with his highest-ever approval rating.
In a new Napolitan News service survey shared with Secrets, the 47th president has a 57% approval rating.
As the 45th president, Trump’s average approval never popped above 47%, according to RealClearPolitics President Tom Bevan in an X post uploaded before the Napolitan survey was released.
Trump's starting job approval rating in the RCP Average is 53.0%. His all-time high during his first four-year term was 47.3% in March of 2020.https://t.co/EemcM1i8n6 pic.twitter.com/5tLKUBovkw
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) January 23, 2025
Two key points from the survey:
- Ninety-five percent of Republicans voice their approval, along with 39% of independents and 20% of Democrats.
- Seventy-three percent of evangelical or Bible-believing voters approve. So do 59% of Catholic voters and 51% of other Protestants. Among Jewish voters, 38% approve and 59% disapprove. The president’s lowest ratings come from atheists, only 29% of whom approve.
The latest rating backs Trump’s claim that he has a public “mandate” for the swift and comprehensive change he has unleashed during executive order signings in the Oval Office. It also echoes other polling from Democratic and Republican firms.
What’s more, since his election, pollster Scott Rasmussen of RMG Research, which is behind Napolitan, said that the mood of the nation has been improving since Trump’s election over former Vice President Kamala Harris.
He said on X, “Since @realDonaldTrump victory on Election Day, perceptions of the economy have improved. In the last @NapolitanNews pre-election survey, 41% of voters said their personal finances were getting worse. That’s down to 31% today. That’s ten-point improvement is part of an ongoing trend noticed in six surveys conducted since Election Day.”
Of his new Trump approval survey, Rasmussen told Secrets on Friday, “These results confirm the positive response we’ve measured to the president’s flurry of executive orders. Voters strongly approve of his efforts to improve border security and to require the federal government to recognize only two sexes. Most also approve of his decision to remove national security clearance from the 51 former intelligence officials who signed a misleading statement concerning Hunter Biden’s laptop.”
Since @realDonaldTrump victory on Election Day, perceptions of the economy have improved.
— Scott Rasmussen (@ScottWRasmussen) January 24, 2025
In the last @NapolitanNews pre-election survey, 41% of voters said their personal finances were getting worse. That's down to 31% today. That's ten-point improvement is part of an ongoing…
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Just this week, Celinda Lake, the influential Democratic pollster who had worked for former President Joe Biden, called Trump’s start “brilliant.”
Trump’s 57% approval rating equals where Biden began, according to Gallup’s presidential job approval center. His high polling lasted three months before dropping to his historic low when he left office Monday.