{"id":30571,"date":"2026-09-22T14:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/?p=30571"},"modified":"2026-09-22T14:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:51:16","slug":"trump-republican-support-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/world\/trump-republican-support-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Support for Trump among Republicans has fallen by 9 points in the space of a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"news-lead\">Support for US President Donald Trump among Republicans fell from 82% to 73% over the course of a week, according to a Reuters\/Ipsos poll. Against the backdrop of the war in Iran and a 51% surge in fuel prices, 51% of his party colleagues disapprove of the president\u2019s handling of the cost of living. The figures were released six weeks ahead of the mid-term congressional elections.<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-summary-box\">\n<p><strong>Briefly about the main points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for Trump amongst Republicans has fallen by nine percentage points.<\/li>\n<li>Most of the President\u2019s fellow party members are dissatisfied with his actions regarding the cost of living.<\/li>\n<li>44% Republicans do not approve of Trump\u2019s economic policy.<\/li>\n<li>The president\u2019s overall approval rating amongst voters stands at 32%.<\/li>\n<li>Republican Party candidates are calling for a swift end to the war in Iran.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Dissatisfaction with the economic policy is growing<\/h2>\n<p>According to Reuters\/Ipsos, 44% of Republicans oppose the economic policy <strong>Trump<\/strong>. General <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/world\/trump-approval-rating-falls-33-percent\/\">approval rating<\/a> The President\u2019s approval rating among voters has fallen to 32% \u2014 the lowest figure since he took office.<\/p>\n<p>This decline in support within the party comes in the run-up to the 3 November election, when Americans will elect a new House of Representatives and approximately one-third of the Senate. The Republicans hold 218 seats in the lower house, compared with 214 for the Democrats; two seats remain vacant.<\/p>\n<h2>The war in Iran and fuel prices have become a key issue in the election campaign<\/h2>\n<p>The war in Iran and rising fuel prices have been cited as the main reasons for the drop in support, which runs counter to Trump\u2019s promises to curb inflation. According to AAA, on 21 September the average price of a gallon of regular petrol in the US was $4.4786.<\/p>\n<p>Trump acknowledged that petrol prices had risen because of the war, but described this as a small price to pay for preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. In contrast, Iowa Senate candidate Ashley Ginson and Michigan candidate Mike Rogers called for a swift end to the conflict and proposed measures to reduce fuel prices.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support for Donald Trump amongst Republicans has fallen from 82% to 73%. 51% of his party colleagues are dissatisfied with his actions regarding the cost of living.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":207433346,"featured_media":30570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_description":"\u041f\u0456\u0434\u0442\u0440\u0438\u043c\u043a\u0430 \u0414\u043e\u043d\u0430\u043b\u044c\u0434\u0430 \u0422\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043f\u0430 \u0441\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0434 \u0440\u0435\u0441\u043f\u0443\u0431\u043b\u0456\u043a\u0430\u043d\u0446\u0456\u0432 \u0437\u043d\u0438\u0437\u0438\u043b\u0430\u0441\u044f \u0437 82% \u0434\u043e 73%. 51% \u043e\u0434\u043d\u043e\u043f\u0430\u0440\u0442\u0456\u0439\u0446\u0456\u0432 \u043d\u0435\u0437\u0430\u0434\u043e\u0432\u043e\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0456 \u0439\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0434\u0456\u044f\u043c\u0438 \u0449\u043e\u0434\u043e \u0432\u0430\u0440\u0442\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0456 \u0436\u0438\u0442\u0442\u044f.","rank_math_title":"\u0420\u0435\u0439\u0442\u0438\u043d\u0433 \u0422\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043f\u0430 \u0441\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0434 \u0440\u0435\u0441\u043f\u0443\u0431\u043b\u0456\u043a\u0430\u043d\u0446\u0456\u0432 \u0437\u043d\u0438\u0437\u0438\u0432\u0441\u044f \u0434\u043e 73%","rank_math_focus_keyword":"\u0420\u0435\u0439\u0442\u0438\u043d\u0433 \u0422\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043f\u0430","td_subtitle":"","subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[805619],"tags":[806757],"class_list":["post-30571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-806757"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207433346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30576,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30571\/revisions\/30576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}