Trump trails Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders in favorability polling: Gallup
President Trump trails progressive stalwarts Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in favorability polling, according to a new survey conducted by Gallup.
The poll, which was released Tuesday morning, found that among 14 prominent figures, Trump’s net favorable rating was minus 16 points, with 41 percent of respondents having a favorable view of the president, while 57 percent said the opposite. Some two percent had no opinion about the president.
Ocasio-Cortez’s net favorability was minus four points, with 34 percent having a favorable view of the progressive firebrand, while another 38 percent had an unfavorable outlook on the New York Democrat. About 28 percent had no opinion about the progressive lawmaker.
Former President Biden, whose public support while in office never recovered after dropping midway through his Oval Office term, accumulated a minus 11 point favorable rating, placing him in the middle of the list. Around 43 percent of U.S. adults had a favorable view of Biden, while 54 percent said the opposite. Some three percent had no opinion.
Pope Leo XIV had the most positive image out of the 14 public figures on the list, with 57 percent having a favorable view and just 11 percent going in the opposite. Nearly a third, 31 percent, had no opinion about the American-born pontiff.
Second on the list was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with plus 18, while in third place was Sanders with plus 11, the survey found.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Vice President Vance had an identical net favorability with minus 11 points.
Among Trump administration officials, the favorability has dropped the most for Secretary of State Marco Rubio and tech billionaire Elon Musk, with each dropping by 24 points, Gallup noted. Rubio’s net favorability is at minus 16 points, with 31 percent having a favorable view of the former Florida senator, while 47 percent have an unfavorable outlook.
Musk, the former head of the Department of Government Efficiency who had a public fallout with Trump over the president’s signature “Big, Beautiful Bill,” was at the bottom of the list with minus 28 net favorability, a 24-point downward swing since January.
Gallup noted that the “dampened favorable ratings of key Trump administration officials since January are broadly consistent with the decline in Trump’s job approval rating over the same period, down 10 percentage points.”
A late July Gallup poll found that Trump’s approval rating was at 37 percent, down 10 points since taking office. The recent The Economist/YouGov survey found the president’s net approval rating to be 15 points underwater.
The poll was conducted from July 7-21 among 1,002 adults. The margin of error was four percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level.