Ahead of the rollout of President Donald Trump's new executive order banning people from certain majority-Muslim countries from traveling to the U.S., half of Americans said he should have moved on after courts blocked his original effort, and a similar percentage said the initial ban was a bad idea in the first place.

According to a new poll from Monmouth University released Monday, just 39 percent of U.S. adults said they believe the original travel ban was a good idea. Meanwhile, 49 percent said the executive order – which targeted people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen – was a bad idea.

The poll, taken before the White House announced the new version of its executive order on Monday, found that approximately the same number – 50 percent – said Trump should have moved on from the ban to other issues, compared with 38 percent who favored his decision to take a second stab at it. The margin of error for the results was 3.5 percentage points.

Unlike the first version of the ban, which touched off widespread confusion and mass protests when it was released with no warning on Jan. 27, the new executive order explicitly exempts legal permanent residents. It also aims to bar only the issuance of new visa permits for travelers from the affected countries, and removes Iraq from the list of nations whose citizens will be restricted from entering the U.S.

"The president is exercising his rightful authority to keep our people safe," Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in prepared remarks Monday. "As threats to our security continue to evolve and change, common sense dictates that we continue to re-evaluate the systems we rely upon to protect our country."

The new order, which is set to take effect on March 16, puts the restrictions in place for 90 days – a period Trump administration officials say is meant to give immigration and national security authorities a chance to review and revise screening procedures to ensure the security of the nation.

In a ruling that was unanimously upheld by a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Seattle-based U.S. District Judge James Robart halted the original order.

On Monday, opponents to the original quickly responded to the revised executive order, calling it a "Muslim ban 2.0" that would face the same fate as the first in court.