--- title: Jared Kushner Is Less Popular Than Donald Trump, James Comey description: Jared Kushner has a lower approval rating than President Donald Trump, special counsel Robert Mueller and former FBI Director James Comey canonical: https://time.com/4829621/jared-kushner-poll-approval-rating/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-22T22:49:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:19:50.228Z article:section: Politics og:title: Just 17% of Americans Have a Positive View of Jared Kushner og:description: According to a new poll og:url: https://time.com/4829621/jared-kushner-poll-approval-rating/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21686ceb145b7b2a/6988d2f4656a3f6a80bd0890/jared-kushner-poll.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5333 og:image:height: 3000 og:image:alt: Jared Kushner Praises Tech Leaders At White House Meeting og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Just 17% of Americans Have a Positive View of Jared Kushner twitter:description: According to a new poll twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21686ceb145b7b2a/6988d2f4656a3f6a80bd0890/jared-kushner-poll.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Just 17% of Americans Have a Positive View of Jared Kushner > Sponsored content. 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For a White House adviser with such an expansive portfolio, Jared Kushner is rarely heard_  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jun 22, 2017 10:49 PM UTC For a White House adviser with such an expansive portfolio, Jared Kushner is rarely heard  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jun 22, 2017 10:49 PM UTC [Jared Kushner](http://time.com/4827329/jared-kushner-white-house-security-clearance-elijah-cummings/) has a lower approval rating than [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4828886/donald-trump-james-comey-tapes/), special counsel [Robert Mueller](http://time.com/4828081/robert-mueller-special-counsel/?xid=homepage&pcd=hp-magmod) and former FBI Director James Comey, according to a [new poll](http://www.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/17255NBCWSJJune2017Poll.pdf). The [NBC News/Wall Street _Journal_ poll](http://www.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/17255NBCWSJJune2017Poll.pdf) released Thursday found that just 17% of respondents had a very or somewhat positive view of Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and his [senior adviser.](http://fortune.com/2017/03/27/jared-kushner-white-house-roles/) While about a quarter of respondents said they felt neutral (24%) about Kushner or didn’t know his name and weren’t sure (28%), about a third of respondents (31%) said they had a negative view of him. Kushner’s negative rating was exceeded only by Trump’s, which hit 50% along with 38% of respondents approving of him. Kushner traveled to the Middle East this week to encourage peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders. When it comes to lawmen, 29% had a positive view and another 29% had a negative view of Comey and 24% had a positive view of Mueller, while 11% disliked him. The poll, which surveyed 900 adults between June 17 and June 20, had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.27 percentage points. ## Transcript [00:00] Today we've assembled a very impressive group of [00:03] leaders from the private sector, and are putting them [00:06] to work here today to work on some of the country's [00:08] biggest challenges that will make a very meaningful [00:11] difference to a lot of it's citizens. This is technology [00:15] week here at the White House. And we are proud to be [00:17] kicking it off with your engagement and assistance as [00:21] we worked to modernize the government's technology [00:23] infrastructure we created the White House Office of [00:27] American innovation in an effort to bring business [00:30] sensibility to a government that for too long has relied [00:34] on past practices as automatic justification. For their [00:37] continuation. Before I came to Washington, many [00:42] warned me that the bureaucracy would resist any [00:46] change that we try to implement. 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