President Trump's public approval rating has hit the highest level of his presidency — 49% — in Gallup's poll of registered voters.
Trump was boosted by increased approval among independent as well as Republican voters, according to the survey released Tuesday. The poll of 1,033 adults was conducted from Jan. 16 to 29, during Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate.
Trump's approval rating among his fellow GOP voters now stands at 94% percent, 6 points higher than registered by the last Gallup poll.Trump's approval by Democrats fell to 7% — 3 points lower than a prior survey. Gallup's survey found the public evenly divided at 50% on the question of whether Trump deserves to be elected to a second term in the White House in November.
The poll, which had a margin of error of 4 percentage points, comes on the heels of other public surveys that have shown Trump's popularity steadily creeping upward in recent months.And Trump trailed behind leading Democratic presidential contenders in approval ratings, according to that poll.
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