Support for President Donald Trump among Pennsylvania voters has eroded in recent months as concerns about the economy and foreign affairs have grown, a new poll shows.<\/p>\n
The Franklin & Marshall College poll, conducted between June 8-14, showed 29% of voters thought Trump was doing an \u201cexcellent\u201d or \u201cgood\u201d job as president, down from 39% in March.<\/p>\n
Another 58% of those surveyed thought Trump was doing a \u201cpoor job,\u201d the highest percentage of dissatisfied voters for a president in Franklin & Marshall polling going back to February 2017.<\/p>\n
\u201cVoters are deeply concerned about their personal finances and are increasingly dissatisfied with President Trump\u2019s performance,\u201d Berwood Yost, director of Franklin & Marshall\u2019s Center for Opinion Research, wrote in the poll.<\/p>\n
Among top issues, just 17% of respondents thought the Trump administration was doing an \u201cexcellent\u201d or \u201cvery good\u201d job dealing with inflation (down from 31% last October), while 29% thought he was doing an \u201cexcellent\u201d or \u201cvery good\u201d job handling foreign policy (down from 42%) and 39% thought he was doing an \u201cexcellent\u201d or \u201cvery good\u201d job handling immigration (down from 42%), the poll showed.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat from Montgomery County, had more favorable numbers.<\/p>\n
About 48% of voters thought Shapiro was doing an \u201cexcellent\u201d or \u201cgood\u201d job as governor, while 48% thought he was doing a \u201cfair\u201d or \u201cpoor\u201d job and 4% didn\u2019t know, the poll showed.<\/p>\n
The poll also had Shapiro leading his Republican challenger, state Treasurer Stacy Garrity, in this year\u2019s gubernatorial race, 50% to 28%, while 16% of respondents said they didn\u2019t know who they would vote for or refused to answer and 6% saying they would vote for someone else. Shapiro led in Franklin & Marshall\u2019s March poll, 48% to 28%.<\/p>\n
\u201cGov. Shapiro\u2019s job approval ratings are holding up pretty well considering how much pessimism voters express,\u201d Yost wrote, alluding to polling showing 36% of respondents thought Pennsylvania was headed in the right direction, the lowest total since October 2023.<\/p>\n
The poll of 546 registered Pennsylvania voters had a margin of error of 5.1 percentage points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Support for President Donald Trump among Pennsylvania voters has eroded in recent months as concerns about the economy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-225844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}