Nearly a third of Republicans now view Trump as 'unfavorable': Pew

• Trump is becoming more unfavorable amongst Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents.
• Trump's "unfavorable" rating rose from 24% in 2022 to 32% in 2023's most recent July poll.

Former President Donald Trump's becoming more and more unfavorable amongst Republicans as the 2024 presidential election approaches, according to a recent Pew Research poll.

According to the poll, conducted between July 10 and 16, the share of Republican and Republican-leaning independents who view the former president as "unfavorable" has risen from 24% in 2022 to 32% in 2023. The poll also found that Trump's "favorable" rating amongst Republican and Republican-leaning independents has decreased over the past year, going from 75% to 66%.

The findings from the Pew Research poll come at the same time Trump has begun to separate himself from the rest of the GOP presidential playing field.

According to an average of "major" polls from FiveThirtyEight, Trump currently holds a commanding lead over the rest of the Republican pack, drawing in an average of 50.8% support in national polls, strikingly higher than that of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the candidate in second-place who's bringing in an average of 19.4% support.

While Republicans appear to be slowly shifting how favorably they view the 45th president, the Pew survey found that Democrats' view of the former president hasn't shifted over the past year: 91% of Democrats found Trump "unfavorable" in 2022 as well as 2023.

The Pew Research survey did not ask respondents what shifted their opinion of Trump, but the former president has been in the spotlight several times over the past year for non-campaign-related affairs. Since the first survey from July 2022, Trump has been indicted twice: once by the federal government for allegedly mishandling sensitive documents after his time in the White House and another in New York for allegedly falsifying business records in a "hush money" scheme prior to his election in 2016.

And a third indictment against the former president appears to be on the horizon over his effort to overturn the presidential election in 2022.