(The Center Square) – North Carolinians are in general agreement with the nation on the direction of the country, approval rating of the president, and opinion on securing America’s southern border, a new poll says.
Direction for the country is not considered good, nor is the job being done well by second-term Republican President Donald Trump, said respondents to the High Point University Survey Research Center Nov. 11-17. In analysis released Thursday, 50% of those polled – both broadly nationwide and specifically North Carolinians – gave Trump his highest approval rating for securing the border.
The poll sampled 1,000 of each group. Classic margin of sampling error is not applicable; the North Carolina segment has a credibility interval of +/- 3.2%, and the national segment is +/- 3.1%.
For Trump’s performance, his approval rating was 35% nationwide and 39% in North Carolina; disapproval rating was 56% and 49%, respectively.
For the country generally going in the right direction, 31% nationwide said 33% in North Carolina said yes; things were off on the wrong track was chosen by 60% nationwide and 57% in North Carolina.
Nationally, Trump got approval ratings of 44% for national security in general and 43% for law enforcement on the higher end, and on the lower end 26% for artificial intelligence, 27% for inflation and 28% for climate change.
In North Carolina, Trump got approval ratings of 50% for national security in general and law enforcement (45%) on the higher end, and on the lower end 27% for inflation, 28% for policies impacting the LGBTQ community, and 30% for artificial intelligence.
LGTBQ is an acronym symbolic of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, the queer and questioning.
