Map Shows Trump's Approval Rating in Every State on Election Day

Americans are voting in midterm elections today, and new polling shows that President Donald Trump has low approval ratings in most of the country. In 39 states, more people disapprove of Trump's job performance than approve of it. This matters because Trump has been telling Republican voters to treat this election as if he were personally on the ballot. The results could show whether voters support or reject the direction of his presidency after nearly two years in office.

Nationally, only 33 percent of registered voters say they approve of the job Trump is doing. Meanwhile, 60 percent say they disapprove. That gives him a net approval rating of minus 27, which means disapproval is much higher than approval. These numbers come from a large polling tracker run by a group called Civiqs, which collected more than 140,000 responses from voters across the country.

A political science professor named Costas Panagopoulos from Northeastern University explained why these numbers are important. He said midterm elections are often like a report card for the party in power. 'In many ways, midterms are referenda on incumbent party performance,' he said. In other words, voters use these elections to share how they feel about the president and his party after seeing them in action.

Only nine states still give Trump a positive approval rating. Wyoming is his strongest state, where he has a net approval of plus 18. North Dakota comes in at plus 12, and Arkansas is at plus 8. Alabama, Utah, Idaho, and Montana are all at plus 2, while Kansas and South Dakota are evenly split between approval and disapproval.

Even in the states where Trump is still popular, his ratings have dropped a lot since he started his second term in January 2025. In Wyoming, his net approval fell 29 points. In Idaho, it dropped 32 points. In Kentucky, the drop was the steepest of all — falling 38 points, from plus 23 all the way down to minus 15. These big drops show that many people who once supported Trump have changed their minds.

Every major battleground state — the states where elections are usually very close — shows more disapproval than approval for Trump. Arizona is at minus 18, Georgia is at minus 24, and Michigan is at minus 26. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are both at minus 23. These states are important because they often decide who wins national elections, and negative numbers there could hurt Republican candidates.

Trump's approval ratings also look different depending on the age of the voter. Younger voters between the ages of 18 and 34 are the least supportive, with only 21 percent approving and 72 percent disapproving. Older voters are less negative — among those 65 and older, 43 percent approve and 52 percent disapprove. Women disapprove of Trump by a wide margin of 66 to 28 percent, while men are closer at 54 to 39 percent disapproving.

Voters who call themselves independent — meaning they don't strongly support either the Republican or Democratic Party — show very low approval for Trump. Only 26 percent of independents approve, while 66 percent disapprove. Professor Panagopoulos said that independents were an important part of Trump's winning coalition in 2024, but many of them have since moved away from supporting Republicans. 'It appears that a huge segment of independent voters have defected from Republican support in this midterm cycle,' he said.

Trump and his team have pushed back against the negative poll numbers. White House spokesman Davis Ingle called Trump the Republican Party's 'unequivocal leader, best messenger, and unmatched motivator.' Ingle pointed to things like tax cuts, lower prescription drug costs, and stronger border security as proof that the administration has done a good job. He described the election as a choice between Trump's ideas and what he called Democrats' 'extreme liberal policies.'

Professor Panagopoulos also noted that Trump has held many campaign rallies to fire up Republican voters. However, he said the rallies are more likely to energize people who already support Trump than to convince undecided voters. He also said it is hard to predict exactly what will happen, because figuring out who will actually show up to vote is 'as much an art as it is a science.' No matter what happens tonight, the results will give Americans a clear picture of how the country feels about the first two years of Trump's second term.