NPR Poll: Many Voters Give Trump Failing Grade

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

As Donald Trump approaches the 100th day of his second term, most voters are not impressed. Majorities disapprove of his performance on key issues, like immigration and the economy, and almost half give his overall performance an F on an A through F scale. Only a slim majority of Republicans give him an A, according to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.

This episode: political correspondent Sarah McCammon, senior political editor & correspondent Domenico Montanaro, and senior national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

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1:01.3	Hey there. It's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Sarah McCammon. I cover politics.
1:05.3	I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent.
1:08.1	And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent. And today on the show,
1:12.5	a pulse check, nearly 100 days into his second term, how are Americans rating Donald Trump's job
1:18.4	performance? We'll get into that and more in the latest NPR PBS News Marist poll. Domenico,
1:24.8	you're kind of our in-house expert on these polls. Big picture, people are not pleased with the president's performance.
1:30.9	I think it's safe to say.
1:31.8	I mean, just walk us through what you're seeing in this poll.
1:34.3	Yeah, we had more than 1,400 people that we interviewed in the survey with PBS News in Maris College.
1:40.9	And 45% of the people who answered the poll gave Trump a failing grade.
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