Map Shows Donald Trump’s Approval Rating in Every State After 17 Months – Newsweek
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Jun 20, 2026 at 05:00 AM EDT
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Jun 20, 2026 at 11:13 AM EDT
Associate News Editor
Nearly 17 months into President Donald Trump’s second term, new state-level polling shows a map that follows familiar partisan lines—but with noticeably weaker margins almost everywhere.
The data comes from Civiqs’ rolling online tracking poll of registered voters, including 111,661 responses.
A Newsweek analysis of the figures compares Trump’s approval rating on June 17, 2026, with where it stood when he returned to office on January 20, 2025, with net approval calculated as approve minus disapprove.
Nationally, Trump receives 37 percent approval and 58 percent disapproval, leaving him clearly underwater overall, with a net approval rating of -21. The state-by-state map tells a similar story: strongest in Republican territory, deeply negative in Democratic strongholds, and under pressure across the battleground landscape.
With Trump underwater across every swing state, even modest shifts in voter sentiment could shape control of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections.
Use the map below to explore where Trump’s approval rating stands in each state after 17 months in office:
National-level data helps explain why the state map looks the way it does.
Younger voters remain strongly negative. Among those aged 18 to 34, just 22 percent approve of Trump while 72 percent disapprove. Among ages 35 to 49, approval stands at 29 percent and disapproval at 63 percent.
Independents also lean against him, with 30 percent approving and 62 percent disapproving. Women disapprove by a 64-to-31 margin, while men are more divided at 51-to-43.
Education remains a key divide. Among postgraduates, approval is 25 percent versus 71 percent disapproval. Among non-college graduates, the split is narrower at 40 approve and 54 disapprove.
These divides help explain why Trump performs strongest in parts of the Republican heartland and struggles more in competitive and urban states.
Trump continues to post positive net approval across much of the Republican heartland, though many of those early advantages have narrowed.
Wyoming remains his strongest state at +24, followed by North Dakota at +19 and South Dakota at +12. West Virginia stands at +15, while Alabama and Idaho both sit at +13.
Those numbers mark a clear drop from the start of his term. Wyoming opened at +47, Idaho at +34, and West Virginia at +35, meaning even Trump’s most reliable states have lost ground.
Kentucky shows how quickly that shift can happen. It began at +23 and now sits at 0, eliminating its earlier cushion.
The most politically important changes are in states that tend to decide national elections.
Florida now stands at -11, down from +9 at the start of the term. Ohio has dropped from +8 to -13, while Nevada has moved from 0 to -21. Pennsylvania has shifted from -3 to -15, and Wisconsin now sits at -14, down from -4 previously.
North Carolina has gone from 0 to -13, while Arizona stands at -11 and Georgia at -22.
None of these deficits is overwhelming on their own, but together they show a consistent trend: Trump is underwater across most of the battleground map, including several states that were once positive or evenly split.
Every state in the tracker shows a lower net approval rating than it did on January 20, 2025.
Some of the sharpest declines are concentrated in states where Trump initially performed strongest:
Texas, Oklahoma and Nebraska have also posted significant double-digit declines, while Nevada’s shift from neutral to clearly negative stands out among swing states.
The pattern is consistent: the biggest changes are not limited to Democratic states—they are often happening where Trump started strongest.
Trump’s weakest numbers remain concentrated in Democratic strongholds, where he began his term with deeply negative ratings.
Hawaii posts the lowest net approval at -58, followed by Vermont at -55 and Maryland at -49. California and Massachusetts both sit at -44, with New York at -39 and Oregon at -38.
In these states, the story is less about dramatic movement and more about entrenched, steady opposition.
A growing number of states now sit close to the line between positive and negative territory. Indiana is just +1. Kansas stands at +6. Louisiana is -2, while Nebraska sits at -4. Missouri is -2, and Kentucky is exactly 0.
That clustering matters. The overall map still reflects the partisan divide, but the margins are thinner, leaving less room for shifts before states change category.
After 17 months, Trump’s political map still resembles the one he began with. His strongest support remains in Republican states, while his weakest support remains concentrated in Democratic areas.
What has changed is the scale.
At the start of his second term, Trump was comfortably above water across much of the red-state map and competitive in several battlegrounds. Now, many of those same states are narrowly positive, evenly split or clearly negative.
The result is a map with the same overall shape—but much less margin for error.
The White House has sought to brush aside the latest polling, pointing instead to Trump’s 2024 election victory as its clearest measure of public support.
Spokesman Davis Ingle has repeatedly framed that result, in which nearly 80 million Americans voted for Trump, as the administration’s core mandate, arguing it reflects backing for what he described as a “popular and commonsense agenda.”
In a response the administration has used consistently across polling inquiries, Ingle added that Trump’s policies are already delivering results and that “this is just the beginning” as the agenda continues to take effect.
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