Nearly half of Iowans are unhappy with President Trump’s first few weeks as president, according to a new poll.

Forty-nine percent of Iowa voters disapprove of Trump's job as president so far, according to a Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll released Tuesday, while 42 percent approve.

The new poll found Trump’s approval is sharply split along party lines.

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Eighty-two percent of Iowa Republicans approve of Trump’s actions so far, while 86 percent of Democrats in the state disapprove of his performance.

Trump won the November presidential election in Iowa by 9 percentage points.

By comparison, the first Iowa Poll of President Obama's presidency in 2009 showed he had a 68 percent approval rating, according to USA Today. President George W. Bush had a 54 percent approval rating in Iowa in 2001, as did President Reagan in 1981. President Clinton had a 73 percent approval rating in Iowa in 1993.

The latest Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll of 802 Iowa residents was conducted from Feb. 6 to 9 and has a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.