President Donald J. Trump continues to shatter expectations with impressive approval ratings, even among pollsters with clear biases against him.

The latest Gallup Poll has the President with a 90% approval among Republicans, a strong result that demonstrates the President’s resilience among his own party.

But the 90% figure does not tell the whole story: it belies even deeper indicators of support for the President, and not just from within his political coalition.

The President’s ongoing approvals are made more favorable by the fact that Gallup is not exactly known to be a pro-Republican (and certainly not pro-Trump) polling agency, historically selectively targeting people who disproportionately do not vote Republican.

What is more, the inherent biases which drive most major so-called “reputable” pollsters, including Gallup, are readily on display in the dataset and factors they use to account for presidential popularity.

For instance, a comprehensive breakdown of how Gallup routinely conducts its polling strategy reveals that no significant changes have been made since 2020 in their methodology, despite seismic changes to the electorate during this time.

Since 2020, the Republican Party has gained at least 2.4 million new registered voters across the 30 states that track party affiliation, reflecting ongoing strong enthusiasm for the Republican Party and in particular, President Trump’s political agenda.

At the same time, the Democrats, who, since Franklin Roosevelt, have reigned as the dominant party through much of the twentieth and twenty first centuries, have lost significant footing in the broader body politic – losing, by one estimate, roughly 2.1 million registered voters since 2020 alone.

This switch in voter registration represents a 4.5 million net swing for Republicans overall, a staggering pendulum swing.  And because these trends occurred in the Trump era, they are indicative of the resilience and growing momentum for the President and the MAGA movement.

Oddly enough, despite these dramatic changes in voter registration, Gallup has made no significant changes to its dataset or methodology during this time span, instead baking in the longstanding and increasingly outmoded assumptions about the Democratic Party being the preponderant force in American politics.

Beyond just that, Gallup has also not factored into its overall analysis of voter engagement.

Specifically, Gallup still routinely fails to account for the fact that Trump voters will more frequently turn out to the polls than their Democratic counterparts (though are far less trusting in pollsters), to say nothing of the dwindling share of Republicans who belong in the Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger cohort of registered Republicans who nevertheless oppose the President.

Gallup’s adherence to an outdated methodology has for years artificially dragged President Trump’s approvals much lower than where they really stand.

It is for this reason that the pollsters have by and large gotten recent election forecasts wrong, grossly overstating the Democratic share of the electorate who wind up repeatedly not showing up for election day (because they do not exist).

The incorrect polling is not simply a question of incompetent methodology, though it is that, but one can further argue suggests grave disingenuity on the part of the pollster.

By not updating methodology to the times, the pollsters fallback on their reputations to paint a false perception of where things stand politically.

This false perception helps feed into a broader, false narrative about the popularity (or lack thereof) of the President’s agenda overall.

This in turn creates doomsaying scenarios, which the hostile legacy media pick up and blithely pounce on as gospel facts, creating, in turn, false narratives about the world at large.

Polling companies like Gallup and other firms deemed “reputable” are often overridden by Democrats.

It is for this reason that President Trump, on the campaign trail, had to commission his own pollsters, who ran bias-free methodologies that turned out to be significantly more accurate, come election day, than the “reputable” firms.

The purported reputation of these pollsters is a misnomer, a claim supported by mainstream media outlets, who take it as dogma that no President who espouses policies like tariffs and closed borders could be anything but unpopular.

According to this view, such policies run counter to the still prevailing neoliberal and globalist worldview among establishment institutions that see them as heretical, bigoted, racist, and all the rest.

If Gallup’s employment composition matched the electorate whose views it routinely claims to speak for (and often asserts it knows better than the electorate itself), Trump supporting Republicans would populate at least half the share of the business.

It is an undeniable fact that pollsters, however “objective” they think their analysis is, will read inherent, even imperceptible, biases into their methodologies.

That is because humans conduct polls, and humans thus are forced to make decisions about certain phenomena in the world, decisions that are invariably based on their own personal outlooks and interpretation of the facts.

Hence, a pollster, even unwittingly, will in the process of his decision-making create a skewed portrait of reality, which in the final analysis says more about his subjective view of the world than how things really are.

As it so happens, the world, in truth, is in remarkably better shape than it was just a year ago.  Lest we forget, President Trump won the 2024 race in the biggest political comeback in history – building upon his vote tallies from both 2016 and 2020 by millions by adding to a mounting coalition which has completely transformed the Republican Party and made a generational impact on American politics writ large.

The fruits of that movement have come to bear: the economy, which suffered from malaise due to consistently high inflation and high unemployment across the Biden interregnum, has been a force to be reckoned with.

Through the policies of the second Trump administration, the United States has once again rebounded as the uncontested economic heavyweight in the global arena.

The third quarter of 2025, even in spite of a record-breaking government shutdown, experienced significantly higher GDP growth as the benefits of April’s “Liberation Day” tariffs have now manifested themselves.

This, coupled with the One Big Beautiful Bill – legislation that not only cemented the President’s historic tax cuts from the first term, but moreover, was loaded with other pro-growth incentives like enhanced deductions and billions of dollars to critical infrastructure that have created hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process – has ignited an economic renaissance that pundits repeatedly and properly refer to as a new Golden Age.

More millionaires and billionaires have been minted in 2025 alone than at any other point in American history, and it is not even close.

That is representative of a deeper groundswell in national prosperity, only in its nascent stages, that is predicted to take off in the next calendar year.

An economy focused on American interests by recalibrating existing trade deals to focus on domestic products, manufacturing, and investments will go a long way towards renewing America’s long dormant culture of optimism, which was responsible for fueling the prosperity of the previous two centuries that created the United States in its current form.

Alas, decades of malaise and stagnation, reinforced by a neoliberal orthopraxy with such practitioners as Obama, Biden, and Clinton, who insisted in both their words and deeds that America’s best days were far behind it, prevented the United States, for decades, from reaching its true potential.

The institutions, such as the legacy media and academic establishment replete with “expert” technocrats who know little about how the world truly works, have now entered an existential identity crisis of their own as they slowly realize that every last Woke bromide they imbibed and globalist talking point they peddled these last twenty odd years turned out to be false, and resoundingly so.

Though we should hope these failings might awaken a sense of introspection and reexamination of beliefs, our more pragmatic angels ought to tell us not to give us false hope.

In any event, even if these institutions and experts, the evangelists for the delinquent ideology fueling these seriously problematic assumptions about the world, have a moment of awakening, their collective folly, in peddling such untruths for so long, should impeach their credibility from opining on any matters of serious political or social consequence for the rest of their days.

That, in a nutshell, captures what is so wrong with polling agencies like Gallup, who to this very day still regularly understate, and in the process, undermine, the President’s credibility as public servant par excellence, a man who through not only trial and tribulation, but now an implacable record of success, has proven himself not only worthy of the mantle of leadership, but supported as well with the legitimacy that no current pollster has yet managed to capture with their anachronistic methodologies and equally anachronistic assumptions about the world.

Jim Hᴏft Jim Hᴏft is the founder and editor of The Gateway Pundit, one of the top conservative news outlets in America. Jim was awarded the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award in 2013 and is the proud recipient of the Breitbart Award for Excellence in Online Journalism from the Americans for Prosperity Foundation in May 2016.

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