Source: Politics<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump\u2019s approval rating remains underwater. But Democrats are faring worse, according to a new poll<\/a> from The Wall Street Journal released Saturday.<\/p>\n The new survey, conducted by Democratic pollster John Anzalone and Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio, found Democrats\u2019 popularity at its lowest point in three decades of WSJ polling, with 63 percent of voters holding an unfavorable view of the party.<\/p>\n Only 33 percent of voters hold a favorable view of Democrats, with a meager 8 percent holding a \u201cvery favorable\u201d opinion, for a net negative favorability of 30 percentage points.<\/p>\n While voters still have significant concerns over the president\u2019s and the Republican Party\u2019s handling of the economy, inflation, tariffs and foreign policy, the majority of respondents nonetheless say they trust Republicans more to handle those issues in Congress.<\/p>\n Despite criticism of the administration\u2019s handling of inflation \u2014 disapproval outweighed approval by 11 points in the poll \u2014 the Republican Party, by 10 points, is trusted more than Democrats to deal with inflation.<\/p>\n That\u2019s the same case when it comes to thoughts on the president\u2019s drastic tariffs policy.<\/p>\n By 17 points, voters disapproved of Trump\u2019s handling of tariffs, while still trusting Republicans more on the issue to Democrats by 7 points.<\/p>\n Health care and vaccine policy are the only two policy issues in which respondents favor Democrats to Republicans on.<\/p>\n Both Trump and the Republican Party at large are also disliked by more Americans than liked, but by far lower margins than Democrats in this survey. The president has a -7 point net unfavorability, while the GOP is at -11 in the WSJ survey.<\/p>\n The Journal poll has found Trump\u2019s favorability rating to be relatively stable through the beginning of his second term. But other recent surveys have found far lower approval ratings for Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Democratic brand is so bad that they don\u2019t have the credibility to be a critic of Trump or the Republican Party,\u201d Anzalone told the newspaper. \u201cUntil they reconnect with real voters and working people on who they\u2019re for and what their economic message is, they\u2019re going to have problems.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite widespread irritation of Democrats, voters still said that if an election was held today, they would back a Democrat for Congress over a Republican by 3 points, 46 to 43 percent. It\u2019s still a drop from this time in 2017, six months into Trump\u2019s first term, when Democrats held an 8-point advantage in that category.<\/p>\n The Journal polled 1,500 registered voters, conducted from July 16-20 by landline and cellphone. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.<\/p>\n