President Donald Trump's job approval rating fell to 36% in a Fox News poll, the lowest level across both his first and second terms, according to the conservative, pro-Trump network.
The poll released by Fox News on the 14th showed Trump's approval rating breaking below the 39% level it had held since May, with 64% disapproving. Fox News summarized the findings by saying that when voters rate both the economy and the president negatively a few weeks before an election, the party in power becomes vulnerable.
The decline was especially pronounced among voters under 45, those with annual household incomes below $50,000, non-white voters and those without a college degree. Approval among Republicans also hit a record low at 76%, down 3 percentage points from the previous month, 12 percentage points from September last year and 16 percentage points from March last year, early in his second term.
Among individual issues, inflation drew Trump's weakest marks, with only 22% approving of his handling of it, down from 36% last summer. Four years ago, ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, then-President Joe Biden's handling of inflation drew a 29% approval rating.
Disapproval of Trump's handling of inflation reached 77%. Disapproval stood at 70% on the economy, 69% on tariffs and 64% on foreign policy. On immigration, disapproval also led at 56%. Only on border security were approval and disapproval evenly split at 50% each.
Asked how they would vote if the election were held today, 54% said they would back the Democratic candidate in their congressional district, compared with 45% for the Republican. That gap falls outside the margin of error and is wider than the previous month, when Democrats led 51% to 44%.
Among voters who said they were certain to vote, the Democratic candidate still led, 52% to 46%, though the gap between the two parties narrowed slightly.
The Fox News survey was conducted by Beacon Research, which works for Democrats, and Shaw & Company Research, which works for Republicans, from the 9th to the 12th among 1,202 registered voters selected at random from national voter files. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points for the full sample and larger for subgroups.