A new poll revealed a major shift in President Donald Trump‘s approval rating more than six months into his second term.
Trump secured a 45% approval rating in the latest survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The poll results, released Wednesday, showed Trump’s highest approval rating ever from AP-NORC Center since the start of his first term.
The approval rating is also up 5 percentage points since the poll was last conducted in July.
The poll comes as Trump escalates the federal crackdown on Washington, D.C., claiming that there were high crime rates in the nation’s capital. His efforts may have paid off, with 53% approving of how he is handling crime.
This is higher than his approval rating on other issues, including the economy (43%), immigration (44%) and the Russia-Ukraine war (42%).
The poll also found that Trump has more than half of the public support when it comes to deploying the military and the National Guard to U.S. cities, with 55% of Americans thinking it’s acceptable.
The poll was conducted Aug. 21-25 among 1,182 respondents. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.
Other recent polls have shown an uptick in Trump’s approval rating. A Gallup poll, released Tuesday, showed Trump’s approval rating 3 percentage points higher than it was last month.
The Gallup poll found that 40% of Americans approved of Trump’s overall job performance in August—up three percentage points since the poll was last taken in July. Gallup noted that the latest results are “in line” with the 40% of support he received in June after the president had a 43% or higher approval rating in the first five months of the year.