--- title: Poll: Donald Trump is Wildly Unpopular Among Americans description: Some 70% of Americans find him unfavorable in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. canonical: https://time.com/4369698/poll-donald-trump-favorabillity-low-june/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-15T12:46:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:46:03.097Z article:section: Politics og:title: Poll: Donald Trump is Wildly Unpopular Among Americans og:description: Some 70% of Americans are unfavorably disposed towards him og:url: https://time.com/4369698/poll-donald-trump-favorabillity-low-june/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1256db39cf74d94d/698895bd8e0601f42a4661f6/h_52794942.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to supporters og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Poll: Donald Trump is Wildly Unpopular Among Americans twitter:description: Some 70% of Americans are unfavorably disposed towards him twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1256db39cf74d94d/698895bd8e0601f42a4661f6/h_52794942.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Is More Unpopular Than Ever, Poll Finds > Sponsored content. 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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reacts during a speech on Veteran affairs in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, New York, USA, 31 May 2016. Jason Szenes—EPA by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Jun 15, 2016 12:46 PM UTC Negative views of Donald Trump [have hit a campaign high](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/06/15/negative-views-of-donald-trump-just-hit-a-new-high-7-in-10-americans/), according to a new favorabillity survey. The Washington _Post-ABC News_ poll finds 70% of Americans have an unfavorable view of the Republican presidential nominee—including some 56% who feel “strongly” unfavorable. It’s a 10-point shift from last month, when Trump had hit just 60% unfavorable views. Since then, he officially became his party’s nominee and controversially [suggested a judge overseeing a lawsuit over his university might be biased](http://time.com/4360424/donald-trump-gonzalo-curiel-misconstrued/) because of his Mexican heritage. The survey was conducted before [Sunday’s deadly attack on a nightclub in Orlando](http://time.com/4365325/orlando-shooting-pulse-nightclub-deadliest-history/)—and thus before his tweeted response to the massacre, which was [widely criticized](http://www.slate.com/articles/news%5Fand%5Fpolitics/politics/2016/06/will%5Fdonald%5Ftrump%5Fs%5Fswaggering%5Fself%5Faggrandizing%5Fresponse%5Fto%5Fthe%5Forlando.html) for being insensitive and self-aggrandizing. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton also received some of her worst ratings in more than two decades, according to the new poll, with some 55% of Americans viewing the former Secretary of State as unfavorable. Worryingly for Clinton, one in four Democrats expressed unfavorable opinions towards her. Over a third (34%) of Republicans expressed unfavorable views of Trump, up from 28% in May. 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