According to a new poll, President Donald Trump is losing the support of his most essential voting bloc fast, as his net approval among men has plunged from -13 to -19 in just one month.
The six-point decline was revealed in a Focaldata/Financial Times survey, and it represents a dramatic loss of ground among the very voters who put Trump in office in 2024. According to Newsweek, “He won male voters by 12 percent over then-Vice President Kamala Harris, making them a cornerstone of his electoral coalition, data from Pew Research Center shows…It also fits into a broader pattern of slipping approval for the president.”
What’s more, the new poll “found Trump’s overall approval at 34 percent versus a 57 percent disapproval rating, while recent polling has shown growing voter dissatisfaction over the economy, inflation and the cost of living, issues that consistently rank among Americans’ top concerns ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.” As the survey itself notes, “President Trump’s net approval rating has reached an all-time low of -23, with the share of Americans disapproving of his performance rising for the fourth consecutive month to 57 percent.”
Approval for Trump has also continued to slip in specific areas where he was once considered the strongest. On immigration and border security, for example, his approval is just 41 percent versus 46 percent disapproval. On inflation and cost of living, his approval is a mere 20 percent, with 67 percent disapproval. And when it comes to jobs and the economy overall, just 29 percent approve of his performance while 56 percent disapprove.
Polling earlier in the year had already showed that Trump was slipping with men, though his male voters were remaining more loyal than his female supporters. As Newsweek notes, “The latest Focaldata results indicate that even one of the president’s most reliable constituencies could be showing signs of erosion.”
This latest poll comes on the heels of the release of a survey showing that Trump is losing another group that was key to this winning 2024 coalition: the Reluctant Right. Making up roughly 20 percent of his electorate that year, this group is comprised of voters who only cast for Trump because they didn’t like Kamala Harris, 38 percent of whom say they will vote for Democratic or otherwise non-Republican candidates in the midterms, while the survey director forecasts that a sizeable portion beyond that will skip voting altogether.
Trump’s downward slide with the Reluctant Right has been largely driven by younger voters who have been angered by the Epstein scandal, the disastrous war with Iran, and the crumbling economy.