Washington – President Trump remains deeply unpopular in California after his first 100 days in power, conservatives and liberals expressing their concern that the American courts can actually serve as control over his power, according to a new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies co-published by Times.
Overall, the survey, carried out during the last week of April, found that 68% of the voters registered in California disapprove of the president’s professional performance and believe that the country is on the wrong track.
The Republicans of California, who represent about a quarter of the registered voters, continue to support the policies of the president. But 65% of voters registered through the State believe that Trump’s shares have “exceeded its constitutional authority as president”, including 24% of Republicans and 63% of the self -employed, according to the survey.
In the meantime, the voters said they lacked confidence that the American justice system can serve as a check against Trump “if it exceeded its constitutional authorities”, with only 13% of the total registered voters expressing strong confidence in the powers of the courts.
Only 51% of voters who identified as powerful conservatives and 53% of the registered Republicans, said they had confidence in the ability of the judiciary to verify an exaggerated president. And among the Republicans, only 27% said they were very confident.
Since Trump took office, managers of his administration have launched a series of attacks on the district court judges who ruled against them, and slowed down, if not explicitly challenged, several judicial decisions, including an order from the United States Supreme Court concerning the erroneous deportation of a man from Maryland to a prison in El Salvador.
The survey has revealed that so far, 27% of voters believe that Trump has operated in its constitutional authorities, while 65% do not.
“It is an interesting set of figures, because you would think that the public would be held behind the judicial system,” said Mark Dicamillo, director of the Berkeley Igs survey. “Trump really pushes the limits and tests the system.”
Trump’s support is always low
Among all the voters registered, 61% said they thought that Trump’s second term will be worse than his. Only 33% said that the changes made by Trump to the federal government will have a positive impact on California.
“The figures, historically, speak in a way of themselves – they are extremely low, greater than 2 to 1, disapproving Trump in these first hundred days,” said Dicamillo.
These figures are consistent through demography, with 68% of white voters, 64% of Latin voters, 79% of black voters and 71% of American Asian voters and Pacific islanders in the state disapproving of the president’s professional yield.
Trump has faced just as weak approval numbers among California voters throughout his first mandate, reaching a Nadir in the summer of 2020, at the height of the Cavid-19 pandemic, when 71% of state-registered voters have disapproved of his professional performance. At the time, only 29% approved the president’s file.
Little missing biden
Despite Trump’s historic disapproval throughout the state, the Californians return to President Biden’s mandate with mixed emotions, according to the survey.
Invited to think about Biden’s inheritance, 31% of registered voters said that he would remember himself as average president. Only 23% said its performance was higher than average, or among the best of all the presidents, while 43% said it was less than the average, if not one of the worst.
It is a sheet of file of one of the most democratic states in the country, where 63.5% of voters voted for Biden in 2020. In the 2024 elections, after Biden abandoned the race, 58.5% in state votes for its vice-president and a native Californian, Kamala Harris.
“Biden numbers are more negative than positive,” said Dicamillo. “Even when you look at the Democrats, they are not massively from the point of view that it has done a work above average.”
“It is a set of very mediocre figures,” he added. “It is not an approval that sounds because they look at the Biden years.”
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