Map Shows Trump Approval Rating in Every State After 20 Months - Newsweek

President Donald Trump is underwater in 41 states and every major battleground state 20 months into his second White House term, according to new polling.

The figures come from Civiqs' rolling tracking poll of registered voters. A Newsweek analysis compares Trump's current approval ratings with those recorded on January 20, 2025, the day he began his second term.

Nationally, Trump stands at 33 percent approval and 61 percent disapproval, giving him a net approval rating (those who approve minus those who disapprove) of minus 28.

The state-level picture follows the same pattern, with support strongest in a handful of deeply Republican states and negative across every major battleground.

Use the map below to explore where Trump's approval rating stands in every state.

Trump's strongest support remains concentrated in a small group of Republican states.

Wyoming remains Trump's best-performing state with a net approval rating of +19. North Dakota follows at +11, while West Virginia and Arkansas are both at +9. Alabama stands at +5. Idaho and Kansas are at +2, while Oklahoma and Montana are narrowly positive at +1.

Those are the only states where more voters approve than disapprove of Trump's performance.

Even there, support is notably weaker than at the start of his second term. Wyoming has fallen from +47 to +19. North Dakota has dropped from +34 to +11. West Virginia has moved from +35 to +9.

The broad pattern is one of erosion rather than collapse. States that once gave Trump comfortable approval margins now offer much less political breathing room.

The demographic breakdown highlights the groups driving Trump's negative national rating.

Among voters aged 18 to 34, just 20 percent approve of Trump's performance while 72 percent disapprove. Among those aged 35 to 49, approval stands at 27 percent and disapproval at 65 percent.

Independents remain strongly negative, with 26 percent approving and 66 percent disapproving.

Women disapprove of Trump's performance by a 65-to-29 margin, while men are more divided, with 55 percent disapproving and 37 percent approving.

Education remains another fault line. Among postgraduates, approval stands at 22 percent while 73 percent disapprove. Among non-college graduates, approval rises to 36 percent but still trails disapproval.

The battleground map remains one of the biggest warning signs for Republicans.

Several of those states started Trump's second term in far stronger territory. Florida has shifted from +9 to -16. Ohio has fallen from +8 to -18. Nevada has moved from even to -26. North Carolina has gone from even to -16.

Those figures suggest Trump enters the latter stages of his presidency facing a considerably tougher battleground map than the one he inherited in January 2025.

Every state tracked by Civiqs has a lower net approval rating than it did on the first day of Trump's second term.

The trend is striking because many of the biggest declines have occurred in states that began Trump's second term among his strongest political bases.

Trump's weakest ratings remain concentrated in Democratic-leaning states. Hawaii records the lowest net approval rating at -61, followed by Maryland at -56, Vermont at -53 and Massachusetts at -51. California stands at -49, while Connecticut is at -44. New York, Oregon and Washington remain deeply negative at between -42 and -41.

Opposition in these states was already entrenched when Trump took office and has remained largely unchanged in direction, even as some Republican states have moved sharply lower.

The White House has dismissed the significance of recent polling, instead pointing to Trump's 2024 election victory as the clearest measure of public support. Spokesman Davis Ingle has repeatedly cited the nearly 80 million Americans who voted for Trump as evidence of the administration's mandate, framing that result as the overriding verdict on its agenda.

In a response the White House has used consistently, Ingle said: "The ultimate poll was November 5th 2024 when nearly 80 million Americans overwhelmingly elected President Trump to deliver on his popular and commonsense agenda."

Ingle added that Trump is working to create jobs, reduce inflation and improve housing affordability, while arguing that the effects of the administration's policies will become more apparent over time.

The White House maintains that the president has already delivered significant results and that "this is just the beginning as his agenda continues taking effect."

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