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Despite attempts to squash, Trump’s favorability beats Newsom and Harris, poll shows

March 10, 2026 | | Print Article

A recent poll suggested media spin and leftist hoaxes are incapable of dampening support for President Donald Trump, whose favorability remains above the two top 2028 Democrat contenders.

As with his first administration, Trump’s second stint in the Oval Office has found talking heads competing in mental gymnastics to twist even widely popular efforts like voter ID laws into something negative. Despite ongoing efforts, a NBC News survey released this week showed the president’s favorability remained above that of media darlings like former Vice President Kamala Harris and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).

Conducted between Feb. 27 and March 3, the poll questioned 1,000 registered voters and found Trump to have a 41% favorability rating compared to his 2024 opponent, Harris, who only had 34%. Worse still, having overseen the steady decline of the once-Golden State and only leaving Sacramento at the end of the year because of term limits, Newsom held only a  27% favorability.

Despite her being a twice-failed White House hopeful, Harris remained the top contender in polls, including a recent survey conducted by J.L. Partners that showed her in first place with 23% over Newsom at 19%, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg at 10%, and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez leading the single-digit pack at 7%.

Further analysis of the poll showed that the Republican Party’s likely frontrunners, Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, whom Trump has teased as an “unstoppable” ticket if they came together as a “dream team,” fared better at 38% and 34% respectively.

What’s more, even the Democrat-despised U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement polled more favorably than Harris, as it scored at 38%. Harris isn’t ruling out a third attempt at securing a word salad White House stint, having gone on record in February claiming she “hasn’t decided” her plans for the future.

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Additionally, pitting the parties against one another, Democrats secured only 30% favorability while Republicans came in at 37%.

Despite those figures, the poll showed partisanship remained a heavy factor as a generic ballot gave the left an edge over Republicans at 50% to 44%. Those numbers nearly matched the president’s approval and disapproval split as he was measured at 44% and 54% respectively, having supposedly lost support for his handling of immigration, Iran, and the economy.

Meanwhile, the president remained acutely self-aware as he earned cheers while addressing congressional Republicans at the Republican Issues Conference in Doral, Florida, on Monday. During the event, he brought up his negotiation tactics with a specific reference to French President Emmanuel Macron and the cost of pharmaceuticals.

Having achieved Most-Favored-Nation drug pricing after threatening to place a 100% tariff on “all wines and champagnes coming into the United States,” the chief executive told his GOP audience, “I don’t want to brag … No other president can do some of the sh*t I’m doing.”

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