AP poll: Nearly 60 percent disapprove of Trump

A new poll finds that 58 percent of American adults disapprove of President Trump’s job performance in the White House, while only 42 percent approve.

The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey released on Thursday shows, however, that Americans are more upbeat on Trump’s handling of the economy: 50 percent approve and 48 percent disapprove.

A 56 percent majority of Americans described the state of the economy as good, with 20 percent of responders who disapprove of Trump’s performance indicating that they still approve of how he runs the economy.

{mosads}The poll also found a strong partisan split in presidential approval, with only a fifth of Republicans stating that they disapprove of the Trump’s performance.  

According to the survey, Trump also enjoys a majority approval among whites. Fifty-three percent of white responders said that they approve of the president’s job performance while 47 percent disapprove.

The AP-NORC poll surveyed a pool of 1,110 adults from March 23 to 27. Its margin of error is 4 percentage points.

The AP survey comes one day after Gallup reported Trump hitting a new low of 35 percent approval in its own survey. Former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush were both above 50 percent approval at this point in their first terms.