Overview
- Gallup’s year-end poll shows 36% approval overall for President Trump, including 89% among Republicans, 25% among independents and 3% among Democrats.
- Syracuse University, Engagious and Sago ran 2025 focus groups with more than 50 Black, Hispanic and young Trump voters, including some who later backed Democrats in New Jersey and Virginia.
- Participants increasingly voiced frustration over inflation and household costs, and fewer than half said they felt the president had made fighting inflation a top priority.
- Tariffs were a recurring sore point, with several voters calling them a tax on Americans who ultimately pay higher prices.
- Some Trump voters expressed unease with deportation policies and external polling cited by The Independent found support softening even among self-identified MAGA Republicans.