Trump approval rating among US Jews at 31 percent — poll

President Donald Trump’s approval rating among Jews in the United States is 31 percent.

The figure is more than 10% lower than the president’s overall approval rating of 42%, according to a Gallup poll taken from January 20, the day Trump was sworn in, to March 15.

Gallup points out that Jews appear to be reacting to Trump along party lines. Some 64% of Jews identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party, according to data from the same time period, and 29% identify with or lean toward the Republican Party.

Gallup also points out that Trump has sent “mixed signals to American Jews about their position in the country and his administration’s stance toward Israel.” Among the issues was being slow to denounce a pronounced wave of anti-Semitism and failing to mention Jews in the administration’s Holocaust Remembrance Day statement, as well as appointing a pro-settlements ambassador to Israel but then calling on Israel to “hold off” on building in settlements.

— JTA