A Quick Look at Donald Trump's Texas Poll Numbers as He Visits in the Wake of Hurricane Harvey

Donald Trump will make a presidential visit to Texas to survey the damage wrought by Harvey – reports say he will visit Corpus Christi – and to drop in on the Texas Department of Public Safety’s operations center in Austin. We last polled Texans’ attitudes toward the president in the June 2017 University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll – some highlights are presented below. For a compendium of every poll item related to Trump going back to the 2016 primary and campaign, see this search result in our poll archive

Trump’s job approval numbers in Texas in June were underwater overall – 43% approved, 51% disapproved. This was a decline from his February numbers (46/44).

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Approve strongly25%
Approve somewhat18%
Neither approve nor disapprove6%
Disapprove somewhat7%
Disapprove strongly44%
Don't know1%

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Approve strongly32%
Approve somewhat14%
Neither approve nor disapprove8%
Disapprove somewhat4%
Disapprove strongly40%
Don't know3%

Trump's overall dip was driven mainly by an unsurprising intensification of Democratic disapproval and some movement of uncommitted independents, as the party identification cross tabulations illustrate. There was some noticeable weakening of the intensity of support among Republicans, but not in the overall levels of GOP support.

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categoryDemocratIndependentRepublican
Approve strongly2%29%48%
Approve somewhat3%18%32%
Neither approve nor disapprove3%10%6%
Disapprove somewhat7%9%4%
Disapprove strongly83%32%9%
Don't know2%1%1%

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categoryDemocratIndependentRepublican
Approve strongly3%23%60%
Approve somewhat5%16%21%
Neither approve nor disapprove7%18%7%
Disapprove somewhat7%2%1%
Disapprove strongly76%35%9%
Don't know3%6%1%

The views of Trump’s traits – we asked about his trustworthiness to follow up on a similar item we has asked during the campaign, as well as about his temperament and competence – also reveal perceptions strongly colored by partisan identification. Overall, for example, 55% said that Trump was not “honest and trustworthy.” The majority is a result of the nearly universal negative consensus among Democrats (91%) and a large plurality of independents (49%), joined by a small but not insignificant number of Republicans who were similarly skeptical (21%).

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Yes35%
No55%
Don't know9%

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categoryDemocratIndependentRepublican
Yes4%37%66%
No91%49%21%
Don't know5%14%13%

Similar patterns are in evidence in the other trait assessments, as well as matters related to Russia.

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categoryTotal
Yes38%
No53%
Don't know9%

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categoryDemocratIndependentRepublican
Yes5%46%68%
No91%45%19%
Don't know3%8%13%

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categoryTotal
Yes39%
No45%
Don't know enough to say16%

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categoryDemocratIndependentRepublican
Yes74%21%9%
No7%55%80%
Don't know enough to say19%24%12%