--- title: Donald Trump: Just 36% of Voters Would Re-Elect, Poll Finds description: A new poll from Fox News suggests that more people were happier with Barack Obama's first 100 days in office than President Donald Trump's canonical: https://time.com/4756987/fox-news-poll-donald-trump-100-days-re-elect/ author: Aric Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-26T23:18:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:37:35.696Z article:section: Politics og:title: Poll: Just 36% of Voters Would Re-Elect Donald Trump og:description: After his first 100 days og:url: https://time.com/4756987/fox-news-poll-donald-trump-100-days-re-elect/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e08dc9a9adc6658/6988b94dbc6cfc07d83e0185/gettyimages-632248942-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4574 og:image:height: 2573 og:image:alt: 58th U.S. Presidential Inauguration og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Poll: Just 36% of Voters Would Re-Elect Donald Trump twitter:description: After his first 100 days twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e08dc9a9adc6658/6988b94dbc6cfc07d83e0185/gettyimages-632248942-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Poll: Just 36% of Voters Would Re-Elect Donald Trump > Sponsored content. 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President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama arrive for Trump's inauguration ceremony in Washington, U.S., on January 20, 2017. J. Scott Applewhite/Pool/AP/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images by [Aric Jenkins](https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Apr 26, 2017 11:18 PM UTC [A new poll from Fox News](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/26/fox-news-poll-president-trumps-first-100-days-getting-mixed-reviews.html) suggests that significantly more people were happier with [Barack Obama](http://time.com/4753027/barack-obama-university-of-chicago-speech-transcript/)‘s first 100 days in office than [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4756872/donald-trump-ninth-circuit-court/)‘s. The survey, which was conducted under the direction of two third-party research firms, found that only 36% of respondents would vote to re-elect Trump after his first 100 days, compared to 52% of respondents who said that they would vote to re-elect Obama after his first 100 days. The poll found that 55% of respondents would not vote to re-elect to Trump; only 31% said they would not vote to re-elect Obama. Trump will hit his 100th day in office on April 29 and has faced [criticism](http://time.com/4750181/trump-100-days-ridiculous-standard/) on both sides for abandoned campaign promises. “No matter how much I accomplish during the ridiculous standard of the first 100 days, & it has been a lot (including S.C.), media will kill!” he tweeted last week. > [](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/855373184861962240) Fox News says its poll was conducted over the telephone with live interviewers among a random national sample of 1,009 registered voters between April 23 and April 25\. 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