More and more Trump supporters regret voting for him.

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Reference News Network April 6 report The website of Singapore’s Lianhe Zaobao reported on April 6 that since President Trump launched war against Iran, his approval rating among the public has fallen to a new low. After the war entered its second month, polls show that even Trump’s die-hard supporters have started to regret voting for him in the 2024 presidential election.

CNN reported that a poll commissioned by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and conducted by the polling firm YouGov provides the strongest evidence.

The poll did not directly ask respondents whether they regretted their voting choice; instead, it offered more detailed options, including “some concerns,” “mixed feelings,” and “a bit of regret.”

In the April 2025 poll, 74% of Trump voters rejected all of these options, saying they were “very confident” in their vote. But now, that figure has dropped to 62%.

Trump supporters who chose the less certain options make up 38%. By comparison, among supporters of Trump’s rival Harris in the 2024 presidential election, only 19% held the same view.

Another 21% of Trump supporters said they still had “confidence” in him, but had “some concerns.”

The share of Trump supporters who were unwilling to express confidence, or at least admitted to having “mixed feelings,” rose from 8% in April 2025 to 17% today.

Only 5% said they regretted their voting choice and that if they could do it over, they would make a different choice. But this number appears to underestimate the extent of regret.

In fact, when asked whether they would vote for him again in the 2024 election, only 84% of Trump supporters said they would support him again, while among Harris supporters the figure was 91%.

So, although some people may not be willing to call it “regret,” it is clear that 16% would choose differently in retrospect.

Meanwhile, another poll further depicts this sense of regret.

The survey shows that 13% of Trump supporters say they “very much” (5%) or “somewhat” (8%) regret voting for him; this figure is twice as high as that among Harris supporters.

This feeling of regret is especially pronounced among Trump supporters under age 30 (17%) and among Hispanic supporters (16%).

The share of Trump supporters expressing regret is not only twice that of Harris supporters, but also far higher than the 6% to 7% reported last April and in October by The Washington Post and an Ipsos poll.

These surveys indicate that between one-eighth and one-sixth of Trump supporters express some level of regret about their 2024 vote. If these voters abandon the Republicans in the midterm elections in 2026, it is almost certain to help Democrats achieve a landslide victory.