{"id":2214,"date":"2026-10-06T14:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T09:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2214"},"modified":"2026-10-06T14:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T09:03:44","slug":"trump-approval-rating-hits-record-low-ahead-of-us-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2214","title":{"rendered":"Trump approval rating hits record low ahead of US midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump\u2019s approval rating has fallen to a record low, according to new opinion polls, raising concerns for Republicans ahead of next month\u2019s midterm elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Reuters\/Ipsos poll put Trump\u2019s approval rating at 32%, with the president losing support among independent voters and Latinos who backed him in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p>The decline could pose a major challenge for Republicans as they seek to retain control of Congress in the November midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Trump dismissed questions about his falling approval ratings before boarding a flight to Nebraska on Monday, saying, \u201cI\u2019m doing great,\u201d while blaming CNN and other media outlets for negative coverage.<\/p>\n<p>A separate NBC News\/Telemundo poll released on Sunday showed that 59% of Latino voters preferred a Democratic-controlled Congress, twice the proportion recorded two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Only 24% of Hispanic Americans surveyed approved of Trump\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has been campaigning across the country for Republican candidates in recent days, even as signs of declining support emerge in traditionally conservative states.<\/p>\n<p>Some Republican lawmakers have also begun distancing themselves from the president on issues including immigration as they seek to retain support in their constituencies.<\/p>\n<p>Growing concerns over the economy, the war with Iran and other key issues linked to the administration could further hurt Republican candidates in the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s approval rating has fallen to a record low, according to new opinion polls, raising concerns for Republicans ahead of next month\u2019s midterm elections. A Reuters\/Ipsos poll put Trump\u2019s approval rating at 32%, with the president losing support among independent voters and Latinos who backed him in the 2024 election. The decline could pose a major challenge for Republicans as they seek to retain control of Congress in the November midterm elections. Trump dismissed questions about his falling approval ratings before boarding a flight to Nebraska on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}