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By Giulia Carbonaro
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President Donald Trump’s approval rating has dropped among the least educated Americans over the past three months, according to the latest poll released by Quantus Insights on Thursday.
It is yet more bad news for the president, whose popularity has tanked in recent weeks as Americans grow more concerned over the U.S. economy and more frustrated about the ongoing affordability challenges they are facing.
Newsweek reached out to the White House’s press team for comment by email on Friday, December 19.
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Why It Matters
In the 2024 presidential election, states with fewer college graduates went for Trump, while those with more college graduates went for Kamala Harris, according to exit polls. Grads made up 43 percent of the electorate at the time, and 55 percent voted for the then-vice president, showing that the country was largely split by education levels.
"It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them," Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders said in a post on X in November 2024.
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But the latest polls shows that Trump is now losing popularity among the least educated Americans, as well as pretty much any other category of voters. The latest Emerson College Polling survey found that 41 percent of people approve of Trump’s job performance, while 50 percent disapprove.
What To Know
According to the latest Quantus poll, which was conducted between December 15 and 16, only 44 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s job performance, while 53 percent disapprove.
In November, 43 percent of voters approved of the job the president was doing, while 55 percent disapproved, according to Quantus Insights. In October, 47 percent approved of his job, while 51 percent disapproved of it.
The number of voters disapproving of the president’s job performance has sunk among noncollege educated Americans.
In October, 42 percent of college educated voters approved of Trump’s job, while 56 percent disapproved. Among noncollege educated voters, 50 percent approved of what the president was doing for the nation, while 47 percent disapproved, a net approval of +3.
In December, these number had changed significantly—especially among noncollege educated Americans. Only 46 percent of voters whose higher educational title was a high school diploma or less approved of the president’s job performance, while 49 percent disapproved of it and 5 percent were unsure.
What People Are Saying
White House spokesman Kush Desai previously told Newsweek: "President Trump inherited the worst inflation crisis in a generation from Joe Biden’s incompetence, and his Administration has rapidly cooled inflation to a 2.5 percent annualized rate.
"As the Administration’s supply-side policies of tax cuts, deregulation, and energy abundance continue taking effect, Americans can count on inflation continuing to fall and real wages continuing to rise."
President Donald Trump wrote in a December 11 Truth Social post: "I inherited a MESS from the Biden Administration — The Worst Inflation in History, and the Highest Prices our Country has ever seen. In other words, Affordability, just 13 months ago, was a DISASTER for the American People, but now, it’s totally different!
"Prices are coming down FAST, Energy, Oil and Gasoline, are hitting five year lows, and the Stock Market today just hit an All Time High. Tariffs are bringing in Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we are respected as a Nation again. When will I get credit for having created, with No Inflation, perhaps the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country? When will people understand what is happening? When will Polls reflect the Greatness of America at this point in time, and how bad it was just one year ago?"
Mark Shanahan, who teaches American politics at the University of Surrey in the U.K, previously told Newsweek: "Trump promised an invigorated U.S. economy, and people simply aren’t feeling it. He’s visibly in decline and becoming angrier by the day."
What Happens Next
Trump’s dwindling popularity among U.S. voters represents an opportunity for the Democratic Party to win back some of the supporters it lost over the last several years, including the working class, at next year’s midterms.
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