Good News For Trump: Current Approval Ratings Are 'Outperforming' Biden's

On "Forbes Newsroom," HarrisX founder and CEO Dritan Nesho analyzed some of Donald Trump's approval ratings.

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00:00I'm Brittany Lewis, a breaking news reporter here at Forbes. Joining me now is Harris X founder and

00:05CEO Driton Nesho. Driton, thanks so much for joining me. Thanks for having me, Brittany.

00:10The August Harvard Caps Harris poll is officially out. And there are a lot of interesting tidbits

00:17in here, a lot of things I want to dive into. But I want to start where we normally start,

00:22which is President Trump's approval rating. Where is it?

00:25So President Trump's job approval seems to have settled at around 47% in the upper 40s. Still a

00:36little bit shy of 50% approval and majority approval. And there's a wide range of areas of approval. So

00:46on the higher end, people approve of how he is fighting crime and reducing the costs of government.

00:55And handling immigration. But on the lower end, the jitters around the economy and handling inflation

01:03and trade and tariff policies since continue. So there's a wide range of opinions around the

01:11different facets of the president's job. But he has been steady now for about three months,

01:18and frankly, stands at a higher approval rating than he himself stood in his first administration at the

01:28same period in time. But also many of his peers, like President Obama, or President George W. Bush,

01:35before that, certainly President Biden. He's outperforming them. So, as always, there's a lot of energy and

01:44motion and tumult with the Trump administration. And I think that the job approval numbers with, you know,

01:51highs of 51% on immigration and fighting crime on one side and lows of 41% on tariffs and trade policy on the

02:00other side, paint the picture of the administration as it stands.