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A string of back-to-back national polls were released this week, gauging President Donald Trump‘s approval rating as his second administration surpasses the seven-month mark.

Four leading pollsters released their surveys between Aug. 26 and Aug. 27, amid the president’s controversial National Guard deployments to the nation’s capital and after meetings with world leaders over the Russia-Ukraine war and ongoing tariff hikes.

Aggregations of recent approval polling from The New York Times and RealClearPolitics place Trump’s approval at 43% and 45.3%, respectively, with disapproval rates of 53% and 51.5%, as of Aug. 27. These averages include the four most recent polls national polls listed below.

Here’s what the latest surveys show.

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Quinnipiac University Poll37% approve55% disapprove

Quinnipiac University’s most recent polling has the lowest approval rating for the Republican president among the bunch, slipping three points since its last survey conducted in mid-July.

Since the survey’s polling at the start of Trump’s second term in January, positive opinions of his job performance have dropped nine points, while disapproval rates are up 12 points.

Opinions were underwater on all six issues pollsters focused on in the survey: crime, Russia-Ukraine talks, foreign policy, the economy, trade and the Israel-Hamas war. Trump scored the highest marks for his policies on crime and his talks aimed at ending the war between Russia and Ukraine, 42% and 40% approvals, respectively. His lowest issues were the economy, trade and the Israel-Hamas war; all receiving less than 40% approvals.

When asked about Trump’s National Guard troop deployments to Washington, a majority of Americans in the poll said they disapproved of the move, with 56% opposing and 41% approving.

The poll was conducted Aug. 21-25 among 1,220 registered voters. It has a margin of error of ±3.4 percentage points.

AP-NORC Poll45% approve53% disapprove

The most recent polling from The Associated Press and NORC gives the president his highest approval numbers of the four, and is among one of the highest ratings seen from a major pollster over the last few weeks. The survey’s 45% approval rating is the highest it has recorded during Trump’s second term − three points higher than the previous high mark from March and five points higher than AP-NORC’s most recent poll in July.

Mirroring results from other recent national polls, the survey found Trump is struggling among some of his signature policy issues. Opinions on Trump’s handling of the economy, immigration and the Russia-Ukraine war were all between 44% and 42% approvals.

Trump earned a 53% approval and 45% disapproval when it comes to his handling of crime across the country. Two-thirds of respondents said crime is a major problem in the United States, with 8 in 10 saying it is a major problem in large cities. About one-in-five people say crime is a major problem in small towns or rural areas, or in their own community, pollsters said of the data.

Further, 55% percent said they think it’s acceptable for the U.S. military and National Guard to assist local police in large cities, but only a third support the federal government taking control of major city police departments.

The poll was conducted Aug. 21-25, the same period as the Quinnipiac poll, among 1,182 U.S. adults. It has a margin of error of ±3.79 percentage points.

Reuters/Ipsos Poll40% approve54% disapprove

The poll echoed the approval numbers seen in its last four consecutive surveys since late-June, marking little change throughout.

The survey found a similar plateau when it came to two of Trump’s key policy issues, immigration and the economy. Among respondents, 37% approved of his performance on the economy, with 55% disapproving. Immigration garnered slightly higher numbers, at 43% approving and 51% disapproving.

Pollsters found 38% of Americans support using troops for law enforcement in the U.S. capital, with 46% opposed. The rest were unsure or declined to answer the question.

The poll was conducted Aug. 22-24 among 1,022 U.S. adults. It has a margin of error of ±3 percentage points.

Gallup Poll40% approve56% disapprove

Gallup’s 40% approval rating for Trump is few points higher than July’s numbers, but roughly in line with polls published earlier this summer.

Gallup’s August poll shows a historically high partisan divide, tying numbers last seen in October 2020 on the eve of the presidential election, and close to George W. Bush’s ratings in 2008 during the global financial crisis.

As has been the trend in nearly all major national polls over the past several months, Trump’s approval numbers are deeply divided among party. A near-unanimous percentage of Republicans in the poll − 93% − approve of the president’s job performance. Among Democrats, that figure is flipped, with 97% disapproving, and just 1% approving.

The poll was conducted Aug. 1-20, of 1,094 U.S. adults. The margin of error is ±4 percentage points.

Kathryn Palmer is a national trending news reporter for USA TODAY. You can reach her at kapalmer@usatoday.com and on X @KathrynPlmr.