President Trump’s approval rating for his handling of North Korea has jumped 20 points among Democrats over the past month, according to a CNN poll released Thursday.
The May 2-5 survey was taken prior to the Thursday arrival of three Americans who had been held captive by North Korea for two years, but found still found Democratic approval of Trump jumped from 6 percent to 26 percent since March 22-25.
Among all parties, 77 percent of U.S. adults approve of Trump’s plan to meet in-person with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, which has been scheduled for June 12 in Singapore. That figure climbed 15 points since last March 22-25.
Approval among Democrats on Trump’s meet-up with Kim also ticked up dramatically since March from 38 percent to 62 percent now. It grew 12 percent among Independent voters from 67 percent to 79 percent this month.
CNN political director David Chalian said Thursday the upward change in support for the president indicates he is “growing beyond his base.”
“A quarter of Democrats support and approve what he is doing on North Korea. A quarter of Democrats don’t ever support or approve ever of what Donald Trump is doing. So this is working broadly politically,” Chalian told CNN.
For the first time since August 2017 – when CNN began this survey – the majority of adults are happy with Trump’s approach to North Korea. Exactly 53 percent support his foreign policy in this area while 35 percent do not.
The landline and cell phone poll was conducted among 1,015 U.S. adults nationwide and had a 3.6 percentage point margin of error for all respondents.
