Donald Trump is losing the favorability race—even to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders.
A new Gallup poll released Tuesday shows Trump with a net favorability rating of –16 points. Just 41 percent of Americans view him favorably, while 57 percent have an unfavorable view. Two percent had no opinion.
He’s far from the top of the list. Out of 14 major public figures, Trump ranked near the bottom. Both Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders scored better than he did.
Ocasio-Cortez came in at –4 net favorability, with 34 percent favorable and 38 percent unfavorable. But a huge 28 percent of Americans said they had no opinion about her at all.
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Sanders did even better. The Vermont senator landed at +11, with more Americans viewing him favorably than not.
At the very top of the list was Pope Leo XIV, who holds the highest favorability of all 14 public figures in the poll. 57 percent of Americans said they had a favorable opinion of him. Only 11 percent viewed him unfavorably, and 31 percent had no opinion.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was second overall, with a +18 net favorability rating.
Even President Biden, who has struggled in the polls for most of his term, ranked higher than Trump. He scored –11, with 43 percent saying they had a favorable view and 54 percent unfavorable. Just 3 percent had no opinion.
Vice President JD Vance and California Governor Gavin Newsom were tied at –11. They sit right in the middle of the group.
Among Trump’s own allies, the numbers look worse.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a former Florida senator, dropped 24 points since January and now sits at –16, the same as Trump. Only 31 percent of Americans view him favorably, while 47 percent view him unfavorably.
But the biggest drop in the entire poll belongs to Elon Musk, Trump’s former tech czar and the ex-head of the Department of Government Efficiency. His net favorability is now –28, with a 24-point drop since January. Gallup notes that his fall came after a public fallout with Trump over tax and spending policies.
Gallup said 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.”
In fact, Trump’s latest job approval rating, measured in a late July Gallup poll, sits at 37 percent. That’s down from 47 percent when he returned to office.
A separate Economist/YouGov survey shows a similar trend. That poll found Trump’s net approval rating to be 15 points underwater.
The Gallup poll was conducted from July 7 to 21 among 1,002 U.S. adults. The margin of error is ±4 percentage points.
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