By ROB CRILLY, CHIEF U.S. POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN PARIS, FRANCE
A new poll shows that 52 percent of American voters believe Vice President J.D. Vance is doing a good job.
He is in Europe this week, making his international debut representing the Trump administration at an A.I. Summit followed by the Munich Security Conference at the end of the week.
Vance was deployed as Trump’s attack dog during the campaign, delighting the MAGA world but triggering a cascade of negative headlines elsewhere.
But a J.L. Partners/DailyMail.com poll of 1000 registered voters shows he has moved into positive territory.
Even 17 percent of Democrats say they view him favorably.
That put him on a similar standing to Trump, who has seen his own ratings improve since winning the election.
Overall, Vance’s favorability is only one point behind the president.
He is widely seen as the future of Trump’s America First movement and the best placed figure to become the Republican nominee in 2028.
Vice President J.D. Vance is visiting Europe this week for two major international conferences
Vance arrived Monday morning with wife Usha, and children Ewan, Vivek, and Mirabel
However, Trump is keeping his kingmaking powers to himself for now. When asked in a Fox News interview whether he viewed Vance as his successor and the 2028 nominee, the president hedged.
‘No,’ he said, ‘but he’s very capable.’
Vance’s role as vice president is coming into focus.
So far he has been tasked with helping shepherd Cabinet nominees through their confirmation process, and is overseeing a possible takeover of TikTok.
On Tuesday, he delivered an America First vision of the future of A.I. to a Paris summit of world leaders and technology giants.
James Johnson, cofounder of J.L. Partners, said: Quietly in the background, we have witnessed an exceptional transformation of JD Vance’s reputation.
‘When he became the VP pick last year, he was scorned in the media – and the public were not all that enamored either.
Now he’s polling at levels only one point off of Donald Trump with the public and the Republican grassroots. There’s a long way to go yet, but the future is currently coming up J.D.’
The Vances (minus Mirabel who was unwell) met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday
Trump has enjoyed some of his best approval ratings since winning the election.
When he strode out on to the field in New Orleans on Sunday night, he was met by a generally positive response, although there was a smattering of boos and jeers.
The whole game was a reminder of how Trump in 2024 cuts a different figure to the start of his first term.
Athletes use his dance moves to celebrate scoring and the NFL has dropped its ‘End Racism’ logo from end zones.
Tech titans, such as Mark Zuckerberg, who opposed him in 2017, are now visitors to the president’s Mar-a-Lago home and have wound down factchecking operations, for example.
The poll,conducted Sunday, shows he now has support across almost all age groups, including an overall favorability rating of 53 percent. Only voters over the age of 65 give him an overall negative rating.
And a string of other polls shows a similar honeymoon.
Respondents to another DailyMail.com poll also showed that voters were using terms like ‘president’ and ‘country’ to describe why they were more positive towards Trump
Voters who said they had a more positive image of Trump listed country, president, and America as part of their reasons for their changing view
A rolling average maintained by Real Clear Politics put Trump on 49 percent approval compared with 45.3 who disapproved of his performance.
That gives him a net positive score of 3.7 points, the highest it has ever been since Trump entered politics in 2015.
A CBS poll mirrored the DailyMail.com results, finding that 53 percent of voters approved and 47 percent disapproved.
Respondents used words such as ‘tough,’ ‘energetic,’ ‘focused’ and ‘effective’ when asked to explain their views.
When J.L. Partners asked respondents last month why their view had become more positive they used terms that suggested voters were ready to rally around a new leader.
They used words such as ‘country’ and ‘president.
