President Trump trails progressive stalwarts Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in favorability polling, according to a new survey conducted by Gallup.
The poll, which was released Tuesday morning, found that among 14 prominent figures, Trump’s net favorable rating was negative 16 points, with 41 percent of respondents having a favorable view of the president and 57 percent saying the opposite. Another 2 percent had no opinion about Trump.
Ocasio-Cortez’s net favorability was negative 4 points, with 34 percent having a favorable view of her and 38 percent having an unfavorable one. About 28 percent had no opinion about her.
Former President Biden, whose public support while in office never recovered after dropping midway through his term, accumulated a negative 11 point favorable rating, placing him in the middle of the list. About 43 percent of U.S. adults had a favorable view of Biden, while 54 percent said the opposite. Another 3 percent had no opinion.
Pope Leo XIV had the most positive image out of the 14 public figures on the list, with 57 percent having a favorable view and 11 percent having an unfavorable one. About 31 percent had no opinion about the American-born pontiff.
Second on the list was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with a positive 18 rating, while Sanders was in third place at positive 11, the survey found.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Vice President Vance had an identical net favorability of negative 11 points.
Among Trump administration officials, the favorability has dropped the most for Secretary of State Marco Rubio and tech billionaire Elon Musk, with each dropping by 24 points, Gallup noted. Rubio’s net favorability is at negative 16 points, with 31 percent having a favorable view of the former Florida senator and 47 percent having an unfavorable one.
Musk, the former head of the Department of Government Efficiency who had a public fallout with Trump over the president’s signature tax and spending bill was at the bottom of the list with negative 28 net favorability, a 24-point drop since January.
Gallup noted the “dampened favorable ratings of key Trump administration officials since January are broadly consistent with the decline in Trump’s job approval rating over the same period, down 10 percentage points.”
A late July Gallup poll found that Trump’s approval rating was at 37 percent, down 10 points since taking office. A recent The Economist/YouGov survey found the president’s net approval rating to be 15 points underwater.
The poll was conducted from July 7-21 among 1,002 adults. The margin of error was 4 percentage points.
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