Immigration is Trump's best and worst issue: ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll

[ad_1] Relying on who you ask, immigration is both President Donald Trump's best accomplishment or his most important failing since returning to workplace in January 2025.

In an ABC Information/Washington Publish/Ipsos ballot performed utilizing Ipsos' KnowledgePanel, Trump approvers have been requested to call the three greatest issues Trump has accomplished since taking workplace this time period, whereas Trump disapprovers have been requested to call the three worst issues he has accomplished since getting into workplace.

About 8 in 10 responses from Trump approvers talked about immigration, together with almost 6 in 10 mentions amongst Trump disapprovers. Over 4 in 10 mentions from approvers have been about securing the borders, whereas about one-third talked about elevated immigration enforcement or ICE. Half of Trump disapprover mentions have been about elevated immigration enforcement or ICE.

The ballot was performed Feb. 12-17 -- after the taking pictures deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis involving federal brokers.

President Donald Trump speaks throughout a press convention within the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White Home in Washington, February 20, 2026.

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Trump approvers are those that mentioned within the ballot that they permitted of the best way Trump was dealing with his job as president; Trump disapprovers disapprove of how he is dealing with his job. Respondents got the possibility to offer three open-ended responses. As a result of respondents have been capable of reply with as much as three solutions, the totals equal greater than 100%.

As beforehand reported, majorities of Individuals disapprove of the president total in addition to how he is dealing with inflation, tariffs, relations with different international locations, immigration and the economic system. His total 60% disapproval score is the best numerical disapproval of his second time period and matches his disapproval score after the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.

Greater than 4 in 10 mentions from Trump approvers included some dialogue of the economic system (45%), together with 14% of mentions about tariffs and 9% about inflation or costs.

Amongst Trump disapprovers, along with immigration, a 3rd of mentions say the economic system is the worst factor Trump has accomplished, with the majority of these mentions dedicated to tariffs.

Greater than 2 in 10 mentions from Trump disapprovers have been both about corruption, violating the structure, folks’s rights and politicizing the Division of Justice. Slightly below 2 in 10 mentions have been about poor worldwide relations and one other 13% have been centered on the discharge of the recordsdata associated to convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Beneath are some quotes from ballot respondents who approve of Trump when itemizing the three greatest issues the president has accomplished this time period:

"Kicking out the illegals"

"Closed the border"

"He's placing tariffs on issues coming from different international locations."

"Mass Deportation"

"Making tax cuts everlasting"

And listed here are some quotes from ballot respondents who disapprove of Trump when itemizing the three worst issues he has accomplished this time period:

"Sending federal troops to Minnesota and inflicting murders"

"ICE"

"Tariffs"

"Permitting DHS and ICE to function with full disregard for Due Course of"

"Politicizing the justice division"

"Broken our system of checks and balances"

Methodology -- This ABC Information-Washington Publish-Ipsos ballot was performed through the probability-based Ipsos KnowledgePanel, Feb. 12-17, 2026, amongst 2,589 U.S. adults and has an total margin of error of plus or minus 2 share factors, plus or minus 3.4 factors among the many pattern of 887 adults who approve of Trump and plus or minus 2.7 factors among the many pattern of 1,422 adults who disapprove of Trump. The error margins are bigger amongst partisan group subsamples.

This evaluation was aided by means of BTInsights, an AI open-end coding software program that types responses into comparable classes. Every response was reviewed by a human coder to make sure it was precisely categorized after which, if mandatory, recategorized. Class names have been additionally edited after a evaluation of codes inside every group.