Top pollster Nate Silver revealed that President Donald Trump has a positive rating on just one key issue, according to his latest analysis.
Silver, who pens the Silver Bulletin polling blog, shared in his most recent entry that the Republican president is receiving negative marks on trade, the economy and inflation.
The only area where Trump is polling above 50 percent is on immigration, the polling guru wrote.
Averaging out the results from many recent surveys, Silver has data pointing to Trump garnering a +2.5 percent approval rating on immigration amid the president’s crackdown on immigrants in the country illegally.
Since the beginning of the Trump administration, ICE has arrested over 80,000 illegal immigrants and counting.
White House officials have said they want to increase the pace too, eventually getting to 3,000 arrests per day, up from the current average around 650.
If the administration is to hit their 3,000 arrests per day goal, that would equate to over a million arrests annually.
The latest Silver Bulletin newsletter indicates that President Donald Trump has a +2.5 net approval rating on how he is handling immigration
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and law enforcement from the state of Florida have arrested 780 migrants who are in the United States illegally in a four-day operation beginning Monday, according to statistics obtained by ABC News. The operation, dubbed ‘Operation Tidal Wave’, yielded over 1,000 arrests in five days
ICE agents wait outside of the immigration Court at the Federal Building 290 Broadway to take migrants into custody as their cases are dismissed in court last week
ICE announced a sweeping raid rounding up nearly 1,500 illegal migrants on Monday in just Massachusetts.
The raid, dubbed ‘Operation Patriot’, saw hundreds of illegals with criminal rap sheets taken into custody.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said Monday that many of those apprehended are ‘drug traffickers, sex offenders, murderers and foreign fugitives.’
However, despite the positive reception of Trump’s immigration reforms, Silver’s analysis found faltering support for the president’s economic agenda.
Silver’s model found Trump has a -9.5 percent approval rating on trade, a -17.5 percent approval rating on inflation and an -11.3 percent approval rating on the economy.
Overall, he has a 45.9 percent approval rating compared to a 51.3 percent disapproval rating, per the Silver Bulletin’s average.
That is a -5.4 percent net approval rating, still a far cry from his second term low of -9.7 percent, which was delivered in the wake of the Republican’s tariff announcement.
The RealClearPolitics average shows a similar result, with Trump pulling in a 47.1 percent approval rating compared to a 50 percent disapproval score.
The president has sought to reinvigorate American industrial work, like steel factories, through his tariff plan
Meanwhile, J.L. Partners for the Daily Mail found Trump’s approval at a split 50 percent in May after the president returned from a trip to the Middle East where he met with world leaders from several nations.
Sentiment over Trump’s economy has varied since the Republican announced a sweeping tariff plan in April.
A Marquette University Law School poll in May claimed that two out of three respondents gave Trump negative marks for his handling of the economy.
That same month, a Harris poll found that six in 10 Americans claimed the economy is impacting their life goals due to affordability issues.