As Townhall has been covering this week, there's been a flurry of polls released in time for the first 100 days of President Donald Trump's second term. Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media seem to only want to talk about Trump's numbers, while conveniently leaving out the good parts or even trying to spin them, such as how a majority approve of his deportation efforts. But, how are the Democrats doing in these polls? Has their been any improvement for them, as polls thus far have been showing that they're facing record lows?
That poll regarding deportation efforts came from CBS News, which also showed that Trump is at about even on immigration, with a 49-51 percent approval rating. There was mostly a focus on Trump, who overall has a 45-55 percent approval rating, as the first question found. The last question in this poll, however, asked Democratic respondents about their own party members, and it turns out that they're not too happy.
When it comes to the question of "So far, has the way that the Democratic Party has handled Donald Trump’s presidency made you feel," Democratic respondents were asked to check all that apply. A whopping 66 percent said they feel "Frustrated," while 53 percent feel "Nervous."
While polls still show that Democrats are in continuous disarray, Trump and Republicans, however, tend to stick by each other. Even with his approval ratings being at what they are in this poll, Trump at least still enjoys the approval of 88 percent of Republicans.
The CBS News/YouGov survey was conducted between April 23-25 with 2,356 U.S. adults and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points.
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This is a pattern in other polls as well. Cygnal's Brent Buchanan focused on such a point for his daily takes from Monday. On Sunday, ABC News put out a less than flattering headline, "Trump has lowest 100-day approval rating in 80 years: POLL," about the poll they did with The Washington Post and Ipsos, which Trump specifically called out by name over Truth Social.
"No one expected Trump to have stellar approval numbers, especially as he implemented exactly what he said on the campaign trail he would do. I haven't seen a drop in Trump's numbers with his base, which is all he cares about," Buchanan reminded.
Such a poll has Trump at a 39-55 percent approval rating among respondents. Yet even with such a headline, the poll write-up early on mentions that Democrats are in a worse place. "Yet he still beats the Democrats in Congress in terms of trust to handle the nation's main problems," the second paragraph of that write-up says about Trump. Would that have been so hard to fit into the headline somehow?
Even still, it's not until the end of the lengthy write-up that problems for Democrats are further mentioned "The Opposition." And, even then, it's not one of the longer sections:
The silver lining for Trump is that the opposition party remains out of favor.
People said they trust him over the Democrats in Congress to handle the nation's main problems by 37%-30%. Underscoring bipartisan disaffection, 30% said they don't trust either party.
Further, while 60% said Trump is out of touch with the concerns of most people in the country, even more, 69%, said the Democratic Party is out of touch. It's 64% for the Republican Party overall.
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In the political middle, 62% of independents said Trump is out of touch, while substantially more, 76%, said the Democratic Party is out of touch. And in their own camps, relatively few Republicans said Trump is out of touch, 19%, while twice as many Democrats, 38%, said this about their own party.
Included in that section of the write-up is a chart about those "out of touch" numbers. The 60 percent of respondents say Trump is "out of touch with most people's concerns" actually puts him ahead of his own party and also rather far ahead of the Democratic Party, by 9 percentage points. That 19 percent of Trump's fellow Republicans but 38 percent of the Democratic Party's own respondents describe them as "out of touch," double the amount, deserves further emphasis. That is not an insignificant number.
This poll was conducted April 18-22 with 2,464 adults and a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
Trump also called out a poll from The New York Times by name. "The New York Times has only 37% Trump 2024 voters, and the ABC/Washington Post Poll has only 34% Trump Voters, unheard of numbers unless looking for a negative result, which they are," Trump's Truth Social post had mentioned in part.
This poll, which came out at the start of the weekend--on Friday afternoon--seemed to be particularly noteworthy. Right off the bat, the poll went with a particular narrative, as the headline read that "Voters See Trump’s Use of Power as Overreaching, Times/Siena Poll Finds." It doesn't appear that there was a question about judges and their power being seen as "overreaching," especially district judges. The poll also not only showed Trump with a 42-54 percent approval rating, but had some curious framing when it came to their questions about deeper issues.
Trump was still underwater with his best issue, immigration, where he has a 47-51 percent approval rating on immigration. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the "Maryland man" who is actually an illegal immigrant who has been accused of abuse by his wife, and is also a suspected MS-13 gang member, as well as who was driving a truck to transport eight immigrants without luggage belonging to a human trafficker in what may have been an act of human trafficking is featured prominently in the poll write-up, yet without those details.
"About half of voters — and about 60 percent of independents — said they disapproved of Mr. Trump’s handling of trade with... the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a migrant in Maryland who was mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador as part of Mr. Trump’s immigration crackdown," is how the poll frames it.
Trump is underwater by 21 points on that issue, with just 31 percent saying they approve of Trump's handling, while 52 percent say they disapprove. How is the issue framed? Simply as "The case involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia."
There's also some particularly curious questions voters were asked when it comes to if the president should or should not be able to do something. "Send U.S. citizens to prison in El Salvador," is one such option, which 73 percent say the president "should not" be able to do. Is this in reference to Abrego Garcia? He was mistakenly sent to El Salvador as an "administrative error," but he is still an illegal immigrant, something he himself admitted to authorities, and is, in fact, from there. Even if this question wasn't about him, it's still worth wondering how much this phrasing affected voters' responses.
Another noteworthy question also has to deal with immigration, specifically deporting pro-Hamas agitators on college campuses who are lucky to be in this country on student visas. The poll merely phrased it as wanting to know if voters believed a president should or should not be able to "Deport legal immigrants who have protested Israel." Sixty-three percent said he should not be able to do so.
CNN's Scott Jennings has been responding in length to such polls, as we've been covering. He got into it with a liberal panelist last weekend, in which he offered that the poll numbers were the way they were because the liberal panelists were "lying on the issues," which certainly could be the case with the poll's framing.
The poll was conducted April 21-24 with 913 registered voters.
We have to stop LYING to the American public.
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) April 26, 2025
No matter how many times the lie is repeated, Albrego Garcia is not a “Maryland man.” He’s not a “mind-mannered father.”
He’s an illegal immigrant from El Salvador with a history of violence & evidence of gang activity. pic.twitter.com/mhTYwas1he
