Poll shows Democrats in Congress hit all-time low 19% approval rating | Fox News
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Just 19% of voters questioned in a new national poll give Democrats in Congress a thumbs up on how they're handling their duties, with 72% disapproving.
That's an all-time low since Quinnipiac University first began asking congressional approval questions in their surveys 16 years ago.
The Democratic Party has been in the political wilderness since November's elections, when Republicans won back control of the White House and the Senate and defended their fragile House majority. And Republicans made gains among Black, Hispanic and younger voters, all traditional members of the Democratic Party's base.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speak at a press conference at the Capitol on June 11, 2025.(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Since President Donald Trump's return to power earlier this year, an increasingly energized base of Democrats is urging party leaders to take a stronger stand in pushing back against the president's sweeping and controversial second-term agenda. Their anger is directed not only at Republicans, but at Democrats they feel aren't vocal enough in their opposition to Trump.
And that's fueled a plunge in the Democratic Party's favorable ratings, which have hit historic lows in several surveys this year.
The trend is reflected in the new Quinnipiac poll, which was conducted July 10-14.
Just 39% of Democrats approve of the way Democrats in Congress are handling their jobs, with 52% disapproving and 9% not offering an opinion.
"The approval numbers for Democrats can be characterized as flat out terrible," Quinnipiac University polling analyst Tim Malloy said.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, alongside Republican lawmakers, shows the final tally of the vote on President Donald Trump's tax bill, during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on July 3, 2025.(Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images)
While the approval ratings for Republicans in Congress aren't as "terrible" as the Democrats, they're nothing to brag about.
Only a third of voters questioned in the poll said they approved of the way congressional Republicans were handling their duties, with 62% giving them a thumbs down.
But just over three-quarters of Republicans (77%) said they approved of the way GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill were handling their jobs, with just one in five disapproving.
Forty percent of respondents approved of how Trump is handling his job as president, with 54% disapproving.
President Donald Trump signed the GOP's domestic policy bill, called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, at the White House on the Fourth of July.(Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
Trump's approval ratings were in positive territory during the first weeks of his second tour of duty in the White House. But the president's poll numbers have been underwater in most, but not all, of the latest national surveys.
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Presidential and congressional approval ratings have long been closely watched barometers ahead of a midterm election.
Republicans will be defending their slim House and Senate majorities in next year's midterms, and will also be facing traditional headwinds that hamper the party in power.
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast."
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I guess most democrats don't identify with racist antisemitic assholes like their elected officials, only 19% which is still a lot of racists.
It's really amazing. Despite the concerted effort of billion dollar media corporations to attack Democrats on a daily basis, Democrats are struggling to even lead in midterm polls. Despite almost all of the money and influence in the world backing them, Democrats' extremism still holds them down. They can't buy enough votes.
"New Quinnipiac poll shows Democrats in Congress hit all-time low 19% approval rating."
Must be a messaging problem and that the dems are not far enough left. S/
Democrats have a much higher standard for the behavior of their politicians. That is a main reason Trump stopped being a Democrat, if he ever was one, but then immediately became a hero to almost all Republicans.
Couldn't tell that in their actions.
Sure, tell us how bad Trump is and then tell us it doesn't matter than Newsom slept with his best friend's wife and wrecked their marriage. Such high standards.
Democrats in Congress have such a low approval rating because they aren't doing enough, or in some cases anything, to rein in the current republican trend of eating away at democracy and making America an authoritative state.
Seems some dems are telling their congress folks there is a need for violence. I would hope the dem elected officials would push back against that but I have not heard that they are.
Can you give us actual, not opinion, proof of this ‘eating away at democracy and making America an authoritative state’?
Funny how there base is saying the lawmakers should be willing to take a bullet but not wanting to take one themselves.
Looks like they are just a bunch of cowards.
Also funny that the lawmakers are hiding behind what "others" are telling them but not pushing back on the call for violence. Not sure who they think they are fooling. If the Republicans were doing the same thing they would be accused of calling for an insurrection
And here, ladies and gentlemen, we have the use of an unproven talking point.
I agree, keep going that way …. please!
Doesn't this polling suggest that there isn't a national Democratic Party any longer? Since support of party leadership has collapsed, there is no one to enforce party discipline.
Democrats are now free to engage in the same sort of hit-and-run campaigns employed by maverick Republican candidates against the Obama establishment. Today, Republicans are the establishment and, by extension, the Deep State.
Wait!!!! They have discipline?
Whatever discipline the party has will evaporate for the midterms. It won't be so funny then.
The problem with that is it implies they have some discipline. I haven't seen any from them in decades.
The most important poll of all.