U.S. President Donald Trump's job approval rating has fallen to 36%, the lowest across both his first and second terms, according to a poll by the pro-Republican U.S. news channel Fox News.

Releasing the poll results on the 14th (local time), Fox News summarized the situation by stating, "With weeks to go until Election Day, if voters view both the economy and the president negatively, the ruling party is vulnerable."

In Fox News polls, Trump's approval rating had held steady at 39% since May of this year before declining in the latest survey.

Fox News pointed to drops in approval among key demographic groups—including voters under 45, those with annual household incomes under $50,000 (approx. 67.5 million won), non-white voters, and those without a college degree—as the main drivers of the decline.

Among Republican voters, positive evaluations fell to 76%, an all-time low.

This is 3 percentage points lower than last month, 12 percentage points lower than September of last year, and 16 percentage points lower than March of last year, shortly after the start of his second term.

Among specific issues, President Trump received his lowest approval rating on inflation, with only 22% giving a positive evaluation.

That figure stood at 36% last summer.

Four years ago, ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, then-President Joe Biden's positive rating on inflation handling was 29%.

Negative evaluations of President Trump's handling of inflation reached 77%.

Negative evaluation rates for other key issues were 70% for the economy, 69% for tariffs, and 64% for foreign policy.

Negative assessments also prevailed on immigration policy at 56%.

Only on "border security" were positive and negative evaluations tied at 50% each.

If the election were held today, 54% of respondents said they would vote for the Democratic candidate in their local U.S. House district race, while 45% said they would support the Republican candidate.

This gap exceeds the margin of error and has widened from last month, when the Democrats led 51% to 44%.

Narrowing the scope to voters who say they are "certain to vote," the Democratic candidate still led 52% to 46%, though the gap between the two parties narrowed slightly.

As is typical in most midterm elections, voters appear inclined to hold the ruling party accountable, Fox News reported.

Seven in 10 respondents said they would vote to send a message to President Trump.

Those intending to send a message of opposition (47%) nearly doubled those intending to send a message of support (25%).

In the 2024 presidential election, 43% of Hispanic voters supported President Trump.

In the upcoming midterms, only 31% of Hispanic voters said they prefer the Republican candidate.

The Democratic Party led the Republican Party in 10 out of 13 issues of concern to voters.

The top five issues that voters cited as "extremely concerning" were government corruption (60%), inflation (58%), gasoline prices (50%), government leadership (49%), and healthcare (48%).

The proportion of voters choosing the Democratic Party as better equipped to handle these issues was more than 10 percentage points higher than those choosing the Republican Party in each category.

The Republican Party held an edge of 10 percentage points on handling crime and 8 percentage points on border security.

On the issue of immigration, the Republicans led by 3 percentage points, though the difference was narrow.

The Democrats led by 22 percentage points on healthcare, 16 percentage points on inflation, and 12 percentage points each on gasoline prices, voting rights, and election fairness.

They also led by 11 percentage points each on government leadership and public school curriculum, 10 percentage points each on artificial intelligence and government corruption, and 9 percentage points on foreign policy.

The Fox News poll was conducted from the 9th to the 12th by Beacon Research (Democratic side) and Shaw & Company Research (Republican side) among 1,202 registered voters randomly selected from the national voter file.

The margin of error for the total sample is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points, with larger margins for subgroups.

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