A new poll has a double-barreled dose of good news for President Donald Trump, who’s been struggling to get his head above water when it comes to his overall approval rating among American voters.
Nearly half of all respondents (55%) to the latest Insider Advantage survey said they approve of the Republican president’s job performance, compared to 44% who said they did not.
The poll of 1,000 likely voters, conducted between May 17 and May 19, also showed Trump’s approvals ratings on the upswing among a key voting bloc.
That’d be Hispanic voters: Nearly 60% of whom said they approved of Trump, compared to 40% who disapproved, according to the poll, which had a margin of error of 3%.
That represents a more than 22% jump from late April to early May, when more than 38% of Hispanic voters said they approved of Trump’s job performance, compared to about 20% who said they did not.
Only white voters, a key part of Trump’s base, registered higher numbers, at nearly 63%.
Trump was underwater with Black respondents. Only about 28% of Black participants in the poll approve of Trump’s job performance, while about 71% disapprove.
Unsurprisingly, Trump’s approvals were high among self-identified Republicans, 88% of whom said they approved of his job performance. Democratic respondents went the other way, with 70% saying they disapproved.
Independent voters, who can play a key role on Election Day, were in a statistical dead heat, with 51% approving of Trump, compared to just shy of 48% who said they did not.
The Republican president continues to command stronger loyalty among male voters (59%) than women (50%) on his job performance.
And voters aged 40-64 (60.7%) hold the highest opinion of Trump compared to voters aged 18-39 (51.8%) and voters aged 65 and older (53.9% disapprove), according to the poll.
