Support for President Donald Trump among Colorado Republicans remained steadfast at the end of last month, even if there are signs GOP voters in the state are pessimistic about the economy.
That’s according to a recent poll conducted by the Colorado Polling Institute, a nonpartisan nonprofit. The survey was conducted by Aspect Strategic, a Democratic firm, and New Bridge Strategies, a Republican firm, among 615 likely 2026 voters in Colorado from March 27 to 31. It had a margin of error of 3.95 percentage points.
The poll, the first statistical glimpse at how Coloradans are feeling about Trump’s presidency, was conducted before Trump announced sweeping tariffs that sent the stock market into a tizzy, only to mostly reverse course Wednesday. Coloradans have made their sentiments known in other ways, including protests across the state last weekend.
While 40% of those polled said they had a favorable opinion of Trump, that number jumped to 87% among just Republican voters. Just 34% of unaffiliated voters and 7% of Democrats said they had a favorable view of Trump.
“Republican voter support for Trump has remained quite stable,” said Lori Weigel, who leads New Bridge Strategies.
But even as Republican voters in Colorado remain Trump diehards, the poll indicates they were feeling uneasy about the economy – before the president sent global markets into a tailspin.
About 61% of GOP voters said they felt the current state of the U.S. economy was fair or poor, compared with 76% of unaffiliated voters and 75% of Democrats.
Weigel said part of the Republican voter sentiment could be a hangover from their feelings about the economy under the Biden administration. She said it’s impossible to know how the recent tariff whipsaw would affect the numbers.
When asked if they think the U.S. economy will get better, stay the same or get worse, 65% of Colorado Republicans said get better, while 23% said stay the same and 12% said get worse.
Sixty percent of unaffiliated voters and 81% of Democrats said they think the economy will get worse.
“The response to this question can be explained almost entirely through the lens of whether a voter is a supporter of the MAGA movement,” said Kevin Ingham, who leads Aspect Strategic, referring to Trump’s Make America Great Again movement.
When it comes to Trump’s tariffs policy, there was a clear partisan divide in the opinion of Colorado voters.
Among Republicans, 69% said they will have a mostly positive impact on Colorado residents, while 19% said they will have a mostly negative impact. More than 1 in 6 unaffiliated voters said the tariffs would have a mostly negative impact, while 89% of Democrats said they would have a mostly negative impact.
A slight majority of those polled said they think Trump has “gone too far” with his immigration policies, with about 26% reporting that his policies have “been about right” and 17% saying they think Trump hasn’t gone far enough.
Trump lost to Democrat Kamala Harris by 11 percentage points in Colorado in November.
As of April 1, 49% of active, registered voters in Colorado were unaffiliated. Roughly 26% were Democrats and 23% were Republicans.
The poll revealed that just 37% of likely 2026 voters in Colorado have a favorable view of billionaire Elon Musk, who is now an adviser to Trump and leading his administration’s cost-cutting initiatives.
Both the Republican and Democratic parties also received low marks from those polled, with the Democratic Party seeing a big drop in favorability since the Colorado Polling Institute last asked voters in November.
“Democrats are having a bit of a unique moment right now within their own base of distrust and dissatisfaction with their response to the Trump administration, and that is why we have seen that radical change in the party’s favorability,” Ingham said.
Gov. Jared Polis remains among the most popular political figures in the state, with 51% of those polled saying they have a favorable opinion of him and 40% reporting an unfavorable view of the term-limed Democrat. Those numbers are effectively unchanged from the results of a Colorado Polling Institute survey conducted a year ago.
