How do Idahoans feel now about President Donald Trump? See what a new poll says
President Donald Trump won Idaho by large margin. But how do Idahoans feel about him after a year into his term?
Public-opinion polling is hard to come by in the Gem State. But the Mountain States Policy Center, a free-market think tank, on Monday released its 2026 Idaho Poll.
Idaho residents in the poll approve of Trump’s job performance by a margin of 59% to 39%. The numbers include 26% who strongly approve and 28% who strongly disapprove.
Just 1% said they weren’t sure. Chris Cargill, Mountain States’ president and CEO, joked in a Monday reveal of the poll that those were the people who “live under a rock.”
The poll of about 600 registered voters was taken Jan. 2-9 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9%, Mountain States said. People were selected at random by the pollster, Cargill said.
RMG Research conducted the poll. The company was founded by Scott Rasmussen, a longtime pollster.
Another poll, by California-based pollster Civiqs, shows similar numbers: In that survey, Idaho voters have a 57% approval rating of Trump while 38% of registered voters disapprove of his performance. That’s down somewhat from a 65% approval rating and 31% disapproval when Trump first took office, according to Civiqs.
Nate Silver, who founded the now-shuttered polling site FiveThirtyEight, gave the poll a B grade, based on expected accuracy. Silver also gave Civiqs a B grade. Civiqs provides online daily polls, and so far almost 79,000 people have responded to its Trump-approval tracking poll since he took office on Jan. 20, 2025.
In 2024, Trump won the state with 67% of the vote, according to the Idaho Secretary of State’s website. His opponent, Kamala Harris, received just over 30%, with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a distant third. Idaho is a solidly Republican state. Its last Democratic governor, Cecil D. Andrus, left office in 1995.
Trump’s actions in his first term have affected Idaho, including businesses paying for tariffs, increased immigration enforcement, and lawmakers bringing the DOGE ethos to cutting budgets.
This story was originally published January 14, 2026 at 4:00 AM.
