Most Americans approve of how Donald Trump is handling the U.S. economy, according to a new poll.

That's the first time the president has rallied a majority to his side on financial, investment and other pocketbook issues.

According to a CNBC All-America Economic Survey of 800 U.S. adults, 51 per cent approve of Trump's economic job performance. Just 36 per cent give him a thumbs-down.

But his base of support on the economy now includes three in 10 Democrats, a number that will likely stun his political opponents as they consider the looming midterm congressional elections.

President Donald Trump is presiding over a national economy that has attracted majority-support among adults in the U.S. for the first time since he took office

a CNBC poll found 51 per cent approve of the president's economic performance

Jay Campbell, CNBC's Democratic pollster, told the net work that 'there is [a] component of [the] Democratic base that’s willing to acknowledge the improving economy and willing to give Trump a certain amount of credit for it.'

'A large number still disapprove of Trump on the economy but 30 percent of Democrats is not nothing.'

The leading indicators for Monday's results are a jumble, with barely one-third of Americans telling pollsters that they have seen an increase in their take-home pay as a result of the December 2017 tax cuts.

And the president's overall approval rating in the CNBC poll is stalled at 41 per cent – lower than most other polls and convincingly more anemic than the 43.7 per cent avreage of polls maintained by Real Clear Politics.

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Still, the president's rating has ticked up by 2 percentage points since the last time the survey was in the field, three months ago.

And the percentage of Americans who disapprove of Trump's job performance dropped by 10 points, from 57 to 47.

The president's rating onthe economy stands in stark contrast to his overall approval number in the CNBC poll, which is lagging far behind

CBNC found little impact from the public-relations catastrophe that came along with last week's deluge of news stories about illegal immigrants being separated from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Pollsters surveyed people for four days, which happened to straddle the time before and after the peak of the media coverage.

There was no significant difference between responses in the two halves.

Fifty-one per cent disapproved of Trump's immigration policy, but that number was unchanged from both three months and one year ago.

The president's first year was marked by job creation, sustained growth in America's Gross Domestic Product and an unemployment rate that has declined to 3.8 per cent – matching the all-time low.

Black unemployment hit 5.9 per cent at the end of May, the lowest number ever recorded by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

That means the gap between black and white unemployment in the United States shrunk to its smallest size ever.

Female unemployment inched down to 3.6 percent, the lowest level since 1953.

Part of Trump's economic pitch in advance of the midterm congressional elections is a redefinition of America's trading relationships, a plan that is also popular in the U.S.

Trump has warned in rally speeches this year that November's midterm elections provide Democrats a chance to take back control of both houses of Congress.

That outcome, he has said, would threaten the progress that he takes credit for.

'Nancy Pelosi is going absolutely crazy about the big Tax Cuts given to the American People by the Republicans,' he tweeted in April, noting that the tax reform package received 'not one Democrat Vote!'

'Here’s a choice. They want to end them and raise your taxes substantially. Republicans are working on making them permanent and more cuts!'

Part of his plan is to emphasize in Middle America the potential long-term benefits of trade renegotiations.

Fifty-two percent of Americans approve of how he is handling that issue.