Reuters/Ipsos Core Political Survey: Presidential Approval Tracker (03/25/2020)

Washington, DC, March 25, 2020 — The latest Core Political survey from Reuters/Ipsos shows that as the coronavirus pandemic continues, Americans’ overall approval of President Trump has strengthened slightly, and approval of how he is managing the outbreak has increased over the last 4 weeks. Additionally, a near majority of Americans are concerned with healthcare or the economy and jobs, up significantly since January.

President Trump’s approval rating has increased to 44% among all Americans.

• Approval of the president is much higher among Republican registered voters (88%) and much lower among Democratic registered voters (11%).
• Half of Americans approve of how Trump is handling the coronavirus outbreak (49%), up 11 points from the beginning of the month.
• President Trump also enjoys the approval of half of Americans on employment and jobs (52%) and the economy (50%).

 Americans are increasingly changing their habits to adapt to the spread of the virus.

• More Americans are practicing social distancing by avoiding large gatherings of people (66%), avoiding physical contact (61%) and working from home (24%).
• Two-thirds of Americans (67%) say they are washing their hands or using hand sanitizer more.
• Only 11% of Americans say they have not altered their daily routine because of COVID-19, down from half of Americans in early March (49%).

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Concern about the coronavirus may have more Americans thinking about the healthcare system and the economy and jobs.

• Healthcare is the top concern for 28% of Americans, up 11 points since January (17%), followed by the economy and jobs (21%), up 8 points since January (13%).
• Among Democratic registered voters, concern about healthcare has jumped 6-points since last week from (from 32% to 38%).
• Republican registered voters are shifting importance away from immigration (18% now, down 9 points since January), to the economy and jobs (22% now, up 9 points since January) and healthcare (18% now, up 7 points since January).

About the Study

These are some of the findings of an Ipsos poll conducted between March 18-24, 2020 on behalf of Thomson Reuters. For this survey, a sample of 4,428 adults age 18+ from the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii were interviewed online in English. The sample includes 3,763 registered voters, 1,777 Democratic registered voters, 1,523 Republican registered voters, and 334 independent registered voters. Weighting was then employed to balance demographics to ensure that the sample's composition reflects that of the adult population according to Census data and to provide results intended to approximate the sample universe. The precision of Ipsos online polls is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the poll is accurate to within ± 1.7 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, had all Americans been polled. The credibility interval will be wider among subsets of the population. All sample surveys and polls may be subject to other sources of error, including, but not limited to coverage error, and measurement error. The poll also has a credibility interval of ± 1.8 percentage points for registered voters, ± 2.7 percentage points for Democratic registered voters, ± 2.9 percentage points for Republican registered voters, and ± 6.1 percentage points for independents registered voters.

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Chris Jackson
Vice President, US
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Kate Silverstein
Media Relations, US
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