The narrative being spun by the media-driven “Do you regret your vote for Trump?” campaign would have people thinking that many supporters who voted for President Trump are unhappy with what he’s done since taking office and wish they hadn’t.
“I was a MAGA junkie, a MAGA junkie who thought her government job would be safe with Donald Trump in office,” one West Virginia woman who was handed her walking papers told CNN last week, as we previously reported.
“I expected better from you. I really did,” she also said.
However, polling over the last few weeks has been mixed, with some showing more disapproval than approval of his performance so far, while others have Trump either at the even mark or slightly more approving than disapproving.
But a new J.L. Partners poll out from the UK’s Daily Mail shows Trump at a place he has rarely been since his second term started: With an approval rating of over 50%, with 53% of voters supporting him amid the heated debate over his tariffs strategy:
President Donald Trump is more popular now than before he sent the global markets into a frenzy by enacting sweeping new tariffs.An exclusive DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners survey of over 1,000 registered voters conducted from March 31 to April 3 found that the Republican remains largely popular in the U.S.The poll found that Trump’s approval rating rose to 53 percent, a 4-point increase over last week when it was 49 percent.Trump’s rising approval rating is surprising given the flak the White House has received over the tariff order signed Wednesday.
The crosstabs are indeed interesting, showing Trump’s approval “up by 13 points since March 7 among those aged 18 to 29” and that “support among black voters skyrocketed 17 points since last week,” which would be pretty remarkable if true.
On tariffs, 39% supported increasing them. 37% were against and 24% weren’t sure.
While it’s possible the poll is an outlier, I should note that J.L. Partners put in a pretty impressive showing with their projections and predictions on the 2024 presidential election:
But it looks like British pollsters J.L. Partners may well end up being among the most accurate in their final pre-election predictions. The firm’s final model was just one of two to forecast a Trump victory and it also projected him winning the Electoral College 287-251 — the highest projected Trump-winning margin of any pollster. It was also one of very few pollsters to predict Trump would win the popular vote.
Time will, of course, tell if this is the beginning of a trend or a one-off. In the meantime, however, conservative Twitter/X netizens are weighing in with their approvals:
Are you getting what you voted for? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section.
-Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter/X.-
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