Polls Show Trump’s Popularity Dropping to New Lows Ahead of Midterms

The useful part

Getty Images Timing is everything in electoral politics, and the time has come for Donald Trump to give his party a lift if it is to preserve congressional control for the last two years of his presidency. Voting by mail has already begun in ten states and early in-person voting in six states. Instead, the president is handing endangered Republicans an anvil and pushing them toward a cliff.

How it works

• At RealClearPolitics, which typically shows him doing a bit better, Trump's average job approval ratio is at 39.5 percent positive, 58.9 percent negative, for a net approval rating of minus-20.5 percent,...
• Bad as the averages look, the new lows shown in individual polls are even more alarming.
• The high-quality New York Times -Siena poll earlier this month showed presidential approval among likely voters as 38 percent positive and 58 percent negative.
• Polls measuring Trump's perceived job performance on particular issues have shown him becoming unpopular across a wide range of topics.
• Silver Bulletin 's averages currently show 32.5 percent of Americans supporting the war, a new low, and 59.1 percent opposing it, a new high.

What to take from it

Trump's job-performance ratings in the Silver Bulletin averages are at 38.0 percent approval and 59.5 percent disapproval, for a net approval ratio of minus-21.6 percent, a new second-term low. Ditto at Decision Desk HQ, where his average job-approval rating is 38.3 percent positive and 60.1 percent negative, for a second-term low net rating of minus-21.8 percent. supreme court Supreme Court Voter-Roll Order Won't Affect Midterms, But Look Out in 2028 By Ed Kilgore The six conservative justices see no problem with letting DHS access personal data to screen voter eligibility.

Example or evidence

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• The intensity indicators are even worse with 48.6 percent of Americans strongly disapproving of Trump's job performance and only 19.7 percent strongly approving.
• A new CNN–SSRS survey of registered voters puts him at 33 percent approval and 67 percent disapproval.
• The latest weekly Economist -YouGov tracking poll has it at 35 percent approval and 63 percent disapproval among likely voters.

Details worth keeping

Polls Show Trump's Popularity Dropping to New Lows Photo-Illustration: At this point a year ago, his net approval was at minus-8.5 percent. Silver Bulletin places his net approval at minus-11.0 percent on immigration, minus-26.6 percent on trade, minus-31.7 percent on the economy, and minus-44.2 percent on inflation.

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