Fewer than 1 percent of Democrats say they are satisfied with the state and direction of the United States, a record low, according to a new Gallup survey.
Satisfaction among Democrats collapsed after President Donald Trump’s reelection last November, falling from just under 50 percent before the election to below 10 percent immediately afterward. Republican sentiment moved in the opposite direction, soaring to more than 70 percent after sitting near zero at the end of former President Joe Biden’s term.
The latest Gallup figures show 76 percent of Republicans remain satisfied with the country’s direction, a level largely unchanged since Election Day. The resulting 76-point partisan gap is the widest Gallup has ever recorded, though such divides have been a consistent feature of U.S. politics since the early 2000s.
Gallup noted that Republicans were nearly as dissatisfied with the nation’s direction in July 2024 as Democrats are today. At the time, however, the partisan gap stood at 35 points, since 36 percent of Democrats expressed satisfaction.
While Gallup’s measure of partisan division drew headlines, its survey also put President Donald Trump’s job approval at 40 percent—below the RealClearPolitics average of 45.8 percent. Most major pollsters currently show Trump slightly underwater on job performance, though his approval rating remains higher than that of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and his own first term at the same point in their presidencies.
According to the latest survey from Quantus Insights, President Trump’s job approval rating stands at 48 percent. “The verdict is plain: half the country still stands with Trump, half does not; with just enough on the negative side to keep him under water,” Quantus Insights founder Jason Corley wrote in the poll’s analysis.
The Quantus survey reflected a broader industry trend showing a gender divide in views of the president: men approved of his job performance 53–46 percent, while women disapproved 55–43 percent.
