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Holy Cow! Trump’s Approval Sinks BELOW Biden’s Post-Debate Nadir

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Sam Stein and Sarah Longwell take on Trump’s brutal new polling—approval ratings in the 30s, independents abandoning him, and voters saying he’s making the economy worse.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. It's me, Sam Stein, managing editor at the Bullwork, and I'm joined by our publisher, Sarah Longwell, because there's just a flood of new polling data that's out there. And who better talk about it with than Sarah? So, Sarah, thanks for doing this. I wanted to start with CNN poll this morning because it kind of confirms the other polls that came out over the weekend from NBC and ABC,

0:23.0

which is Trump's numbers are in the tank. That was a tongue twisted for me. I was, I mean,

0:28.9

the numbers are really surprising, lower than you usually get from Trump. Usually you're at that like

0:32.9

40 to 45 range. CNN this morning had Trump's approval rating at 37% disapproval rating at 63%.

0:41.5

Now, this isn't as low as it gets for Trump because we know that in the aftermath of

0:45.8

January 6th, he had a 29% approval rating at a pew.

0:48.8

But that was like, yeah, you just committed an act of insurrection.

0:53.0

Maybe you're not like doing a great job.

0:55.9

39% is pretty damn low historically.

0:58.9

And it's low relative to where Trump's been, even in his first room office.

1:03.3

What is your main takeaway here other than this is bad for Trump?

1:07.2

Yeah, still not low enough.

1:08.5

We need them down in the 32%.

1:10.7

That's where that's my magic number. You're like, still not low enough. We need them down in the 32%. That's where that's my

1:11.7

maximum number. You're like, I want Bush era post, you know, Wall Street collapse. I want when Bush was

1:18.1

leaving office, 29%. Because look, the Pew number of 29% after January 6th, I always like to compare

1:25.8

things relative to the same pollster. And so he's right

1:29.8

around in the CNN poll. He's just one point above where he was right after January 6th. So we are in

1:36.5

the territory right now of Trump's lowest approval rating. And I want people to take that in for a second.

1:43.5

Because I do think sometimes

1:44.5

people think, like, oh, how can people be tolerating this? Why isn't anything changing? I do want

1:50.9

to emphasize a bunch of things that Trump is doing are deeply unpopular. He is most unpopular on

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