Trump's approval rating falls to 36%, lowest across his first and second terms... Fox News poll

[The Financial News] U.S. President Donald Trump's approval rating for his job performance has fallen to 36%, its lowest level across his first and second terms in office. That is according to a poll by Fox News, a U.S. news channel friendly to Trump and the Republican Party.
Introducing the results of its poll on the 14th (local time), Fox News summed up the situation: “If voters view both the economy and the president negatively just weeks before Election Day, the party in power is vulnerable.”
In the Fox News poll, Trump's approval rating had held at 39% since May this year before falling in the latest survey.
Fox News cited a decline in support among voters under 45, those with annual household incomes below $50,000 (67.5 million won), nonwhite voters, and voters without a college degree as the main reasons for the drop in Trump's approval rating.
Even among Republican Party supporters, the share with a positive view was at an all-time low of 76%. That was 3 percentage points lower than last month, 12 points lower than last September, and 16 points lower than in March last year, early in his second term.
Among the issues assessed, Trump's lowest approval rating for his job performance was on inflation. Just 22% approved of his handling of it, down from 36% last summer. Four years ago, ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, 29% approved of then-President Joe Biden's handling of inflation.

Disapproval of President Trump's handling of inflation reached 77%.
Disapproval stood at 70% for the “economy,” 69% for “tariffs,” and 64% for “foreign policy.” Negative views also predominated on immigration policy, at 56%. “Border security” was the only issue on which positive and negative assessments were evenly split, at 50% each.
If the election were held today, 54% said they would vote for the Democratic candidate in their congressional district's U.S. House race, while 45% said they would vote for the Republican Party candidate. The gap widened from last month, when Democrats led 51% to 44%.
As in most midterm elections, voters appear inclined to hold the party in power accountable, Fox News reported.
Seven in 10 said they would vote to send a message to President Trump.
Nearly twice as many respondents said they would send a message of opposition (47%) as said they would send a message of support (25%).
43% of Hispanic voters supported President Trump in the 2024 presidential election, but just 31% said they preferred Republican Party candidates in this midterm election.


Democrats led the Republican Party on 10 of the 13 issues that concern voters.
The five issues voters most often said they were “very concerned” about were government corruption (60%), inflation (58%), gasoline prices (50%), government leadership (49%), and health care (48%).
On each of these issues, the share who said the Democratic Party would handle it better was at least 10 percentage points higher than the share who named the Republican Party. Republicans led by 10 points on “response to crime” and 8 points on “border security.” They led by 3 points on immigration.
Democrats led by 22 percentage points on health care, 16 points on inflation, and 12 points each on gasoline prices, voting rights, and election fairness. They led by 11 points each on government leadership and public school curricula, 10 points each on artificial intelligence and government corruption, and 9 points on foreign policy.
The Fox News poll was conducted by Beacon Research (for the Democratic side) and Shaw & Company Research (for the Republican side) from the 9th through the 12th, surveying 1,202 registered voters randomly selected from national voter lists.
The margin of sampling error for the full sample is ±2.5 percentage points; it is larger for subgroups.

[email protected] Lee Seok-woo, International Affairs Correspondent Reporter