Key facts
- Some 21% of Americans approved of Trump's handling of the cost of living, the poll found.
- Trump's immigration approval stood at 38%, against 25% for his economic stewardship.
- Among Republicans, 81% backed his immigration approach and 50% backed his cost-of-living handling.
- The online poll of 1,705 US adults carried a margin of error of about 2 percentage points.
President Donald Trump's approval rating stood at 32% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on November 9, 2026, unchanged from two prior polls conducted between late October and early November. The reading was one percentage point above the 31% recorded in a mid-October Reuters/Ipsos poll, which the report described as the lowest of his career in politics.
The poll followed the November 3 midterm elections, in which Trump's Republican Party lost control of both chambers of Congress. With some races still undecided, Democrats scored their biggest victory in the House of Representatives since at least 2008 and flipped Senate seats in Kansas, South Carolina and Texas, according to the report.
Just 21% of Americans approved of Trump's management of the cost of living, the poll found. The report said the war launched by the president on Iran in February has raised fuel prices sharply and weighed on household finances, and that his low rating on the issue has hurt his allies in Congress.
Trump's approval on immigration policy, at 38%, remained higher than the 25% rating Americans gave his economic stewardship. Among Republicans, 81% supported his immigration approach, compared with 50% on the cost of living. The report said Trump has ramped up deportations of immigrants since he returned to the White House in January 2025 and promoted Stephen Miller, a key architect of those policies, to White House chief of staff in the week before the poll.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online nationwide from November 6 to 9, gathered responses from 1,705 US adults and had a margin of error of about 2 percentage points.