As of May 2026, nearly two in ten Americans (19%) who reported voting for President Donald Trump in 2024 now hold unfavorable views of him. This is a significant increase from 10% in February 2025, shortly after Trump began his second term. Who are these disgruntled Trump voters and how unhappy are they with the direction he is taking the country? This Spotlight Analysis uses data from PRRI’s first two surveys of 2026 to profile Americans who voted for Trump in 2024 but now hold unfavorable views of him, as well as their views on key issues such as immigration, the war in Iran, and Trump’s leadership.
Who Are Dissatisfied Trump Voters?
PRRI’s 2025 and 2026 surveys find that independents who reported voting for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election are more than twice as likely to now hold unfavorable views of him than a year ago at the beginning of Trump’s second administration (37% vs. 18%). Republicans are also five percentage points more likely to hold unfavorable views of Trump today than a year ago (11% vs. 6%).
Younger Trump voters are more likely than older Trump voters to now hold unfavorable views of him, and their dissatisfaction with him has doubled from 2025 to 2026. The share of Trump voters ages 18-29 who hold unfavorable views of the president has increased from less than two in ten in 2025 (18%) to nearly one-third (32%) in 2026; Trump voters ages 30-49 have also seen a similar increase in unfavorable views, more than doubling from 11% to 24%. Though older Trump voters have also grown in their unfavorable views, the share of dissatisfied Trump voters is still roughly around one in ten (from 8% to 15% among those ages 50-64 and from 7% to 13% among those 65 and older).
Around one-quarter of religiously unaffiliated (27%) and non-white Christian Trump voters (25%) now view him unfavorably, compared with only 15% of white Christian Trump voters. These unfavorable views have increased significantly from 2025, when only 16% of religiously unaffiliated, 13% of non-white Christian, and 7% of white Christian Trump voters held unfavorable views of the president. Among white Christians, white Catholic Trump voters (18%) are currently more likely than their white mainline/non-evangelical Protestant (14%) and white evangelical Protestant (12%) counterparts to hold unfavorable views of Trump. These white Christian groups have seen significant increases from 2025, when only 7% of all three groups who voted for Trump viewed him unfavorably.
Nearly six in ten Trump voters who qualify as Christian nationalism Rejecters (57%) hold unfavorable views of him in 2026, compared with 24% of Skeptics, 14% of Sympathizers, and 8% of Adherents. With the exception of Christian nationalism Adherents, unfavorable views of Trump increased significantly from 30% to 57% among Rejecters, from 14% to 24% among Skeptics, and from 5% to 14% among Sympathizers.
Dissatisfied Voters’ Views on Trump’s Leadership and Actions
The vast majority of Trump voters in 2026 hold favorable views of the way he is handling immigration (85%), while only 14% hold unfavorable views. Among Trump voters who now view the president unfavorably, the majority (55%) now hold unfavorable views of the way he is handling immigration, compared with a mere 4% of those who still hold favorable views of him. Negative views of Trump’s handling of immigration among his dissatisfied voters have more than doubled from 25% since the beginning of 2025.
Seven in ten Trump voters (70%) hold favorable views of his handling of the war in Iran, compared with less than three in ten (28%) who hold unfavorable views. Dissatisfied Trump voters are more than four times as likely to hold unfavorable views of his handling of the war in Iran than satisfied Trump voters (79% vs. 17%).
PRRI’s 2026 survey shows that the vast majority of all Trump voters are more likely to agree with the statement that Trump is “a strong leader who should be given the power he needs to restore America’s greatness” (81%) compared with 17% who say he is “a potentially dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys the country.” Nearly six in ten Trump voters who now view him unfavorably (59%) agree that Trump is a “potentially dangerous dictator,” compared with only 8% of the Trump voters who still view him favorably.
