Why Trump began losing Indian-Americans’ support (even before the Iran war)

Team TOI PlusTNN & Agencies
Apr 10, 2026 | 15:48 IST
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A Carnegie Endowment survey says 71% Indians disapprove of Trump’s presidency, and 55% do so strongly. They also rate him negatively on his handling of immigration, the domestic economy, and even his handling of international economic policy, including trade, tariffs and sanctions

Donald Trump’s approval rating is now at the weakest point of his second term.

In Nate Silver’s polling average, his net approval stood at -16.3 in early April, after hitting an even lower second-term trough a few days earlier. His ratings on the economy, inflation and trade were under pressure too. But the erosion had begun earlier, before the Iran war pushed his presidency into a more volatile phase.
A Carnegie Endowment survey of Indian Americans, carried out before the United States entered the conflict, offers a clear snapshot of that earlier slippage and shows Trump was already faring especially poorly among this group.
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