A majority of Americans in a CNN/ORC poll said Donald Trump will do at least a fairly good job as president. | AP Photo Poll: 53 percent say Trump will do a fairly good job as president

Two weeks after the election, 45 percent of respondents in a CNN/ORC poll out Tuesday said they disapprove of President-elect Donald Trump. But the poll also finds more Americans are optimistic about his presidency — although the responses are heavily polarized.

Fifty-three percent of Americans surveyed said Trump will do at least a fairly good job as president. Fourteen percent said his job performance will be fairly poor, and 30 percent said he will do a very poor job.


Those numbers lag significantly behind what Americans felt about then President-elect Barack Obama eight years ago. Shortly after his election, 75 percent of respondents said Obama would do at least a fairly good job as president. Twenty-one percent said he would do a fairly or very poor job and were pessimistic about his promise of change.

Regardless of their feelings about Trump, a broad majority said it is at least somewhat likely that he will fulfill a number of campaign promises, including repealing and replacing Obamacare (73 percent), renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (64 percent) and creating good-paying jobs in economically challenged areas (60 percent).

The poll was conducted nationwide from Nov. 17-20 with a sample of 1,003 adults. The sample included respondents reached on cellphones and traditional landlines. The margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.