By Editor,James Cirrone
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President Donald Trump should further lean into the issue of immigration if he wants to set Republicans up for a win in the 2028 election, according to a new poll.
The poll from Reuters/Ipsos, which surveyed 1,016 Americans from September 19 to 21, found that Trump has 42 percent support on immigration.
While not a majority, it is still much higher than former President Joe Biden’s approval rating on the issue, 26 percent, according to a Reuters poll in early December 2024.
For a brief moment in late February to early March of this year, 50 percent of Americans approved of Trump’s mass deportation policies.
Americans also trust Trump more than they did Biden on the economy, though not by much, according to the poll.
In December, Biden’s approval rating on the economy had sank to a dismal 34 percent.
When Trump took office, his approval was at 43 percent, but as of the latest reading, he has sunk close to Biden’s poor levels at 35 percent.
This comes after the Trump administration has spent months ratcheting up tariffs on nearly every country on Earth.
And in August, the unemployment rate rose to 4.3 percent, a nearly four-year high, and inflation also accelerated.
The Reuters poll wasn’t all good for Trump, as his approval rating dipped from 42 percent three weeks ago to 41 percent.
Though Trump is more trusted on economic issues, 54 percent of respondents still said the economy was on the wrong track, up from 52 percent in July.
However, the positives far outweigh the negatives, according to Alyssa Farah Griffin, who cited the poll on Friday’s episode of The View.
‘I think if the election were re-held today, Donald Trump would win by the same if not a bigger margin’, she said.
She was referring to the poll tracking which political party Americans think has better ideas on specific issues. On seven of the eleven topics, they thought Republicans were superior.
On the most important voting issues in the 2024 election — the economy and immigration — Americans by far and away still believe the GOP has them better handled.
Republicans enjoy a 20 percentage point lead on Democrats on crime, an issue Trump has sought to tackle in part by sending troops to troubled US cities.
Americans say the GOP also has better ideas, per the poll, on foreign conflicts, gun control, political extremism and corruption.
The issues where Democrats are more trusted include respect for democracy, healthcare, women’s rights and the environment.
It is still far to early to call the election, however a betting market earlier this year identified Vice President JD Vance as the apparent favorite.
Most forecasters believe that in the 2026 midterms Republicans will lose their narrow majority in the House of Representatives but hold onto control of the Senate.
