Trump support ticks up in new survey

President Trump’s approval rating ticked up two points in the latest CBS News/YouGov survey, bolstered by a slight improvement among independent and moderate voters.

In the September poll released Sunday, 44 percent of Americans approve of Trump, up from 42 percent in July.

The bump in support marked the end of a monthslong downward trend in Trump’s support during his second term. In February, Trump’s approval was at 53 percent; by June, it had dropped to 45 percent.

The latest poll shows a slight increase in support among self-identified “moderate” voters — at 36 percent, up from 34 percent in July.

Self-identified “liberal” and “conservative” voters, meanwhile, expressed no change in their support for Trump since July: at 5 percent and 86 percent, respectively.

Similar trends exist in the data when broken down by party identification.

Among independents, support increased from 32 percent in July to 37 percent in September.

Republicans ticked up two points to 91 percent in September, while Democrats’ support declined one point to 4 percent in the latest survey.

Americans are most likely to say “immigration, deportation and border policies” are the most important when determining “how you judge the Trump administration,” at 30 percent, while 25 percent said the “economy and inflation prices” is the main determining factor and 17 percent said “government agencies, programs and spending.”

The poll was conducted on Sept. 3-5 and included 2,385 U.S. adults. The margin of error is 2.5 percentage points.