A majority of Individuals disapprove of how President Donald Trump is dealing with tariffs on imported items, in accordance with an ABC Information/Washington Put up/Ipsos ballot performed by way of Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel shortly earlier than the Supreme Court docket invalidated Trump’s international tariffs.
The ballot was performed Feb. 12-17. The Supreme Court docket’s resolution got here out Feb. 20.
Majorities of Individuals with varied revenue backgrounds, males, girls and Individuals of all age teams disapprove of how Trump is dealing with tariffs, together with majorities of white, Black, Hispanic and Asian Individuals, in accordance with the ballot.
A majority of those that didn’t vote in 2024 disapprove of how Trump is dealing with tariffs together with nearly all of those that voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris. Over 9 in 10 Individuals who disapprove of Trump oppose how he is dealing with tariffs.
Whereas most Republicans approve of how Trump is dealing with tariffs (75%), that drops to 43% amongst self-described non-MAGA Republicans (which embrace independents who lean Republican and name themselves MAGA supporters). A 55% majority of non-MAGA Republicans disapprove of how Trump is dealing with tariffs. Most MAGA Republicans (87%) approve of how he is dealing with tariffs on imported items.
In all, 54% of Republicans and Republican- leaning independents say they’re supporters of the MAGA motion and 42% say they don’t seem to be.
Whereas majorities of these with school levels and with out disapprove of how Trump is dealing with tariffs, white folks with out school levels are break up. White folks with school levels disapprove by a more-than 2-to-1 margin.
Rural Individuals are additionally break up over whether or not they approve or disapprove of how Trump is dealing with tariffs, whereas most suburban and concrete folks disapprove.
Opinions on tariffs have remained secure since ABC/Put up/Ipsos first requested in April final yr; the identical share accepted and disapproved of how Trump was dealing with the problem then as they do now.
Methodology — This ABC Information-Washington Put up-Ipsos ballot was performed by way of the probability-based Ipsos KnowledgePanel, Feb. 12-17, 2026, amongst 2,589 U.S. adults and has an total margin of error of plus or minus 2 share factors. The error margins are bigger amongst partisan group subsamples.
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