---
title: "Are Telephone Polls Understating Support for Trump?"
description: "Five months after Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 election, public opinion polls find him with the lowest approval ratings of any president in modern history at this stage of a presidency."
date: "2017-03-31"
authors:
  - name: "Travis Mitchell"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/2017/03/31/are-telephone-polls-understating-support-for-trump/"
datasets:
  - name: "American Trends Panel Wave 24.5"
    url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/dataset/american-trends-panel-wave-24-5/"
---

# Are Telephone Polls Understating Support for Trump?