President Donald Trump has seen his favorability rating surge in deep blue New York, new polling has revealed.
Trump matched his highest-ever approval ratings in one of the bluest states in the nation.
The same poll shows that Trump now has a higher approval rating than New York’s Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul.
The Siena College survey was released on Monday and showed Trump with a 41% approval rating.
Hochul’s approval, meanwhile, was trailing Trump at 39%.
Trump’s approval hasn’t been so high in the state since the month before the New Yorker won the presidency in 2016.
A big part of the upward swing for Trump is his crackdown on illegal aliens who have committed crimes.
79% of the poll’s respondents approved of deporting criminal illegal aliens.
A majority of 54% said they believe that Trump will do an “excellent” or “good” job securing the U.S. border.
Sienna pollster Steven Greenberg said of the results:
“President Trump has not been popular in his former home state for more than a decade.
“And while that is still true, Trump now has his best favorability rating, 41-56%, since the month before he took office the first time, December 2016, when his favorability rating was 41-53%.”
Predictably, Republicans view Trump favorably 83% to 13%.
Democrats view the president unfavorably 81% to 17%.
Among independents, Trump is slightly up 48% to 46%.
Trump is already making good on his promises to deport criminal illegal aliens.
Trump’s administration has been conducting ICE raids in New York City and other major cities.
Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco was arrested in the Bronx last week.
25-year-old Zambrano-Pacheco is an alleged ringleader of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made his first visit to the Southern Border on Monday.
During the visit, Hegseth declared a “new era of determination” under Trump.
“Because of President Donald Trump, this is a new era at the southern border, a new era of determination, a new era of cooperation,” the Pentagon chief told reporters after touring the border.
“And at the Defense Department, we are proud to be a part of it.”
Trump has used threats of tariffs to get countries like Mexico, Canada, and Columbia to cooperate with his border crackdown.
Mexico and Canada have both said they will station thousands of troops at the border to stop the flow of fentanyl and human trafficking there.
The U.S. military is also deploying more troops there.
“We are going to get control of this border,” Hegseth promised.
