More than two-thirds of Americans have confidence in their state's governor when it comes to handling economic matters, higher than any other elected official in the country, a recent Gallup poll finds.

According to the pollster's annual survey on economy and finance, 68 percent of those polled said that they either had "a great deal" or a "fair amount" of confidence in their state's top official to make the right economic decisions.

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The poll shows a rise in economic confidence for the country's governors — up from 51 percent in 2014, according to Gallup — at a critical time in the country, as governors and the president have butted heads on when and how to reopen the country's economy amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Since saying that he had more say than governors over reopening the economy, the president has relaxed his stance, saying that the final say on when a state reopens rests with a state's governor.

Last week, Trump released a three-phase plan that outlined guidelines to reopening the economy and created a task force to develop the best strategy.

Multiple governors have created similar task forces of their own. Georgia and South Carolina both partially reopened their economies this week, though many leaders and health experts around the country have criticized the moves.

The Gallup survey was conducted April 1-14 and polled 1,017 adults living in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. It has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.