BySara Dorn,
Forbes Staff.
President Donald Trump’s approval rating went up in two polls this week and held steady in two others—as surveys show Americans are nearly evenly split on views of his crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., and threats to replicate it elsewhere despite crime being a top concern for voters.
Aug. 27-8 net approval rating: Trump’s approval rating ticked up five points, to 45%, and his disapproval rating declined five points, to 53%, in an Aug. 21-25 Associated Press/NORC poll, compared to the group’s July poll (the latest survey of 1,182 adults has a margin of error of 3.8).
The poll is the latest to show the majority of respondents from both parties, for a total of 81%, say crime in large cities is a “major concern,” even as violent crime declined 4.5% nationwide last year, according to FBI data, though fewer voters—53%—approve of Trump’s handling of crime, while 55% say it is “completely” or “somewhat” unacceptable for the federal government to take control of local police departments as Trump has done in Washington, D.C., and threatened to do in other major cities.
