Some recent polls show a decline in President Donald Trump’s approval rating while others show little change. | AP Photo Trump suffers month of rough polling

The Obamacare repeal debacle has eroded Donald Trump’s already weak approval ratings, leaving him historically unpopular just 10 weeks into his presidency.

A comparison of polls conducted before and after House GOP leaders pulled the bill to repeal parts of the 2010 Affordable Care Act suggests Trump has suffered only a slight downtick over the past week. But the attrition culminates a month in which perceptions of the president have notably worsened.


Over the past week, six pollsters have released surveys conducted after the failure of the GOP health care bill. And while some show a decline in Trump’s approval rating and others show little change, one thing remains consistent across all of the surveys — more Americans disapprove than approve of Trump. None of the polls shows any improvement in perceptions of the president.

Trump’s latest approval ratings range between 38 percent and 46 percent. Fifty percent or more of respondents in each of the polls disapprove of his performance.

The president’s lowest approval rating comes from the Gallup Daily Tracking survey . In interviews conducted Monday-Wednesday, 38 percent of Americans approved of Trump’s job performance, while 57 percent disapproved.

Gallup has generally been more negative for Trump than other public polls. His approval rating dipped as low as 35 percent in the tracking survey earlier this week — down from 41 percent immediately before the health care bill died.

The POLITICO/Morning Consult poll has featured some of the most positive results for Trump, and the president’s 46-percent approval rating in this week’s survey is the highest recorded by any pollster since Trump and Republicans fell short on health care. But even that number reflects a slide of 4 percentage points from the previous week, down from 50 percent.

Trump’s approval rating also declined 3 points from earlier this month in an automated-phone survey from the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling .

In SurveyMonkey’s polling around the health care legislation’s rollout, Trump held steady at 42 percent. But he is in a longer-term decline. Even Rasmussen Reports , the Republican-friendly automated polling firm, shows a decline for Trump over time, though little change from last week.

All in all, March has been a month the administration might just as soon want to forget. On March 1, Trump’s average approval rating stood at 45 percent, according to HuffPost Pollster , with 50 percent disapproval. By Thursday afternoon, the numbers were down to 40 percent approve, versus 55 percent disapprove.

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The RealClearPolitics average shows a similar movement in the wrong direction: On March 1, Trump was at 43 percent approve versus 50 percent disapprove. As of Thursday, his average approval rating had ticked down to 41 percent, compared to 53 percent disapproval.

Beyond Trump’s approval ratings, there are other red flags for his presidency, as it shifts its focus to confirming Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch and other legislative priorities, like an overhaul of the U.S. tax code.

In the CBS News poll, only 42 percent of Americans say they are confident in Trump’s ability to make deals with Congress to pass legislation, while 54 percent are not confident. And only 32 percent of Americans approve of how Trump is handling health care, versus 59 percent who disapprove.

In the POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, voters in the latest survey trust congressional Democrats over Republicans when it comes to dealing with health care, 45 percent to 35 percent. Two weeks ago, Republicans actually held a narrow advantage on the issue: 43 percent to 39 percent.

While Trump’s ratings are historically poor for a new president, there are examples of presidents recovering in their first year. Bill Clinton’s approval ratings bottomed out in the high 30s in June 1993, only to recover into the 50s when the summer ended in September. And Trump’s approval ratings on the economy remain higher than his scores overall or on other, more controversial issues.

Americans are also still relatively hopeful about the future of the country. Despite poor views of Trump’s job performance, 53 percent of Americans surveyed by CBS News say they are optimistic about the next four years with Trump as president, more than the 42 percent who say they are pessimistic.