This key voting bloc is tanking Donald Trump’s approval rating in a new poll. Who is it?
Buffeted by criticism over his signature domestic policy megabill, President Donald Trump's approval rating has dipped to its lowest point since his second term began in January.
Trump's 37% approval rating in the new Gallup poll is only slightly higher than the 34% he logged the end of his first term . That's a 10-point drop since the beginning of the year for the Republican president.
But more than any other voting bloc, Trump has seen his support deteriorate the most among independent voters, where it fell by 17 points to 29%, matching his lowest rating with those voters in either of his two terms, according to Gallup.
Trump's support has remained consistent among Republicans, while Democrats continue to disdain him. Independent voters, meanwhile, remain up for grabs.
And, of late, they have been turning away from Trump.
Independent voters, for instance, opposed Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill," with its suite of tax cuts and social service spending reductions, by a 3-1 margin, according to a CNN analysis .
Trump also saw his support dip among independents over his hardline immigration policies, that same CNN analysis indicated.
More than half of those voters "now say they have no real confidence in him to deal with the topic, with 56% now saying he has gone too far on deportations," CNN's polling editor, Ariel Edwards-Levy, wrote about an April CNN poll .
The new Gallup poll, conducted between July 7 and July 21, gave Trump his highest marks for his handling of tensions with Iran (42%) and foreign affairs overall (41%).
His approval dipped for his handling of immigration (38%) and the economy (37%), according to the Gallup poll.
Republican support and Democratic opposition on each of those issues remained pretty much constant in the new Gallup poll.
"Meanwhile, no more than 36% of independents approve of the president's job performance on any of the issues. The situation with Iran earns him the highest approval from independents, at 36%, and the federal budget the lowest (19%)," according to Gallup.
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