Vance downplays polling in Trump’s first 100 days: I ‘don’t really care that much’ 

Vice President Vance defended the Trump administration’s first 100 days, marked by low approval ratings, and said he doesn’t “really care that much” about polling numbers. 

Vance joined Fox News’s “Special Report” on Friday, where he was asked by host Bret Baier about President Trump’s approval rating, which shows Americans approve of his administration's border security actions but don’t have favorable views of its economic policy and overall agenda. 

“The president talks about polls, and he’s not a fan of how the polls are done, but approval ratings for you, for the president, if you look at the polls, not just one, but a span of them, you know, are not great,” Baier said. 

Vance downplayed the various surveys and noted that he’s experienced poor polling before, pointing to 2024 election polling that showed former Vice President Harris more popular than her results proved to be. 

“In the modern era, 2025, opinion pollsters just don’t know how to capture most Americans. They don’t answer the phones. If they do answer the phone, they hang up immediately,” Vance said. 

Vance brushed aside the concern and said it isn’t something to worry about. 

“I think that, again, you do a good job, you worry about the polls later. The politics will take care of itself,” he said. “I mean, for the reasons I just said, I really am skeptical of these polls, Brett.” 

“I also just don’t really care that much about the polls,” Vance continued. 

“Even if they were accurate, because if we do a good job, if people see the results, then in three years, people will be talking about what a great job Donald J. Trump and JD Vance did. That’s all I really care about.” 

Vance’s remarks come as the administration faces poor polling numbers from a variety of outlets. 

Trump tore into a number of news organizations over the recent polling that show his favorability is dipping 100 days into his administration. 

“They are Negative Criminals who apologize to their subscribers and readers after I WIN ELECTIONS BIG, much bigger than their polls shows I would win, loose a lot of credibility, and then go on cheating and lying for the next cycle, only worse,” he said in a post online. 

According to a Decision Desk HQ survey, 44 percent of registered voters approve of Trump’s job performance and 56 percent disapprove. In a Gallup poll, his approval rating sat at 45 percent, and in a survey from The Washington Post and ABC News, 60 percent of voters say the president is “out of touch” with most people in the country. 

His approval ratings are considerably lower than what other recent presidents received at 100 days into their administration, a traditional marker to evaluate a presidency. 

The lower poll numbers are becoming a concern for Republicans who have been loyal to the Trump administration so far, but have midterm elections in 2026 to worry about.