Former President Donald Trump’s favorability rating has plummeted to its lowest point in seven years as he embarks on his 2024 White House run, in line with a poll released on Wednesday.
The Quinnipiac University survey found that only 31% of registered voters have a good view of the 76-year-old former commander-in-chief, with 59% viewing him unfavorably.
The rating is Trump’s lowest measured by Quinnipiac since July 2015, when 27% of registered voters held a good view of the true estate mogul only a month after he announced his 2016 presidential candidacy.
Amongst registered Republicans, Trump’s favorables are significantly higher with 70% viewing him positively — but that figure can be the bottom amongst GOP voters since 2016, in line with Quinnipiac.
The poll also asked registered voters in the event that they need to see Trump on the GOP ticket in 2024, to which 70% answered negatively, including 38% of Republicans.
The previous president has stumbled out of the gates since announcing the launch of his third consecutive presidential campaign last month.
His infamous pre-Thanksgiving dinner with anti-semitic rapper Kanye West and white supremacist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago drew the ire of Jewish Trump allies and a number of other high-profile members of the Republican Party.
He also called earlier this month for the “termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those present in the Structure” because of “massive fraud” within the 2020 election.
He later attempted to make clear his social media missive, writing: “What I said was that when there’s ‘MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION,’ as has been irrefutably proven within the 2020 Presidential Election, steps should be immediately taken to RIGHT THE WRONG.”
Quinnipiac found that a slight majority of respondents (51%) said the comment should disqualify Trump from the 2024 race.
The poll of 1,456 registered US voters was conducted Dec. 8-12. It has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 2.6 percentage points.
Also Wednesday, a Wall Street Journal poll found that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis leads the previous president amongst Republican primary voters by 14 percentage points (52% to 38%) in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup.
DeSantis also outpaces Trump when it comes to party approval, with 86% of GOP voters viewing the 44-year-old governor favorably, in comparison with 74% who view Trump favorably.