5% of Trump Voters Say They Oppose The Measures He's Taken In His Second Term

President Donald Trump has consistently made headlines during his first month in office as he has tackled issues ranging from the Israel-Hamas war to the Russia-Ukraine war to Elon Musk's initiative to slash government spending and a mass deportation operation. Bu do any of his voters regret casting their ballots for him given what they've seen so far?

The short answer is no. A Washington Post-Ipsos poll conducted Feb. 13-18 found that just 5 percent of voters who said they cast ballots for Trump oppose what he has done since taking office, including just 1 percent who "strongly" oppose it. In other words, 1 in 20 Trump voters say they don't like what they voted for.

Similarly, another poll from CNN conducted Feb. 13-17 asked both whether people felt that the president's actions were "unexpected" and whether they felt that was a good or bad thing. That survey revealed that just 5 percent of self-described Trump voters said his actions were unexpected and a "bad" thing.

Interestingly, more anecdotal, rather than quantitative, reports paint a different picture. For instance, a Wall Street Journal article last week highlighted voters' regrets for casting the ballots for the current president.

"When we said safer border, I thought he was thinking 'Let's stop the drugs from coming into the country,'" Staci White, a Trump voter interviewed by the Journal said. "I didn't know he was going to start raiding places." She added that she didn't believe he would actually follow through on some of the more hard-line policies he touted during the campaign.

"Now I'm like: 'Dang, why didn't I just pick Kamala?'" she continued.

Similarly, a story by The Daily Beast highlighted seasoned Republican pollster and author Sarah Longwell, who suggested that a pool of focus groups she's conducted full of MAGA voters are starting to show signs of "buyers' remorse," expressing less-than-positive reviews of the president's first month.

The different narratives do not come as a surprise, given that both forms of reporting— polls and anecdotes— tend to have their limitations, The Washington Post explains. With polls in particular, the big limitation is the margins of error. However, the Post is confident that voters' "buyer's remorse" toward Trump stands around the mid-single digits.

These polls come as Trump's approval rating stands at 52 percent, with 33 percent "strongly" approving of the president's job and 19 percent "somewhat" approving, according to a Harvard CAPS/Harris survey.

"This is a good start to Trump, though many of his policy initiatives are more popular [than] this," Mark Penn, the co-director of the poll, said of Trump's approval rating.

"So Americans are taking a wait and see approach with Trump having the potential to climb higher, especially as 58 percent believe he is doing a better job than [former President] Biden," he continued.

Interestingly, the Post suggests that Trump's unorthodox and drastic Trump actions could further alienate portions of his voter base. For instance, the report found that around one-quarter of self-described Trump voters disapprove of his policies on ending birthright citizenship, his decision to roll back temporary legal status for refugees and his proposed tariffs on Canada and Mexico.