{"id":2978,"date":"2026-10-20T09:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T04:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2978"},"modified":"2026-10-20T09:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T04:04:14","slug":"trumps-approval-falls-to-record-low-of-31-as-midterms-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2978","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s approval falls to record low of 31% as midterms near"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald \u200cTrump\u2019s approval rating<\/a> fell to a record low as Americans worried about high gasoline prices and appeared ready to punish his Republican Party in the November 3 congressional elections<\/a>, according to a Reuters\/Ipsos poll<\/a> that closed on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some 31% of Americans approve of Trump\u2019s \u200bperformance in office, down a percentage point from two weeks earlier and the lowest level in \u200beither of his presidential terms, the four-day poll showed.<\/p>\n

Asked which party they would vote \u2060for if the congressional elections were held today in what is known as a \u201cgeneric ballot\u201d question, some \u200b47% of registered voters in the nationwide poll picked Democrats and 35% chose Republicans.<\/p>\n

The 12-point Democratic advantage \u200bwas the widest over the current election cycle and could bolster Democratic hopes of seizing control of the US House of Representatives and the US Senate.<\/p>\n

For Republicans, losing control of either chamber could complicate Trump\u2019s agenda in the last two years \u200bof his term.<\/p>\n

Generic ballot polls are national polls that provide an overall view of which party poll respondents \u200bwant to see in charge in Congress.<\/p>\n

While these polls provide a view of national public sentiment, they do not \u200ccapture \u2060all the nuances of the state-by-state and district-by-district contests that determine control of the Senate and House, contests in which Republicans hold some structural advantages.<\/p>\n

A Reuters\/Ipsos poll two weeks earlier showed Democrats leading Republicans by 7 points, 44% to 37%.<\/p>\n

Much of the drop in support for Republican congressional candidates was due to a larger \u200bshare of women saying they \u200bwould pick Democrats.<\/p>\n

Some \u206050% of female voters said they would vote Democratic, compared to 32% eyeing Republican candidates. Men also favoured Democrats, but by a smaller margin.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s popularity has suffered \u200bsince he ordered military strikes on Iran in February alongside US ally Israel. \u200b<\/p>\n

The war \u2060triggered a surge in gasoline prices, hitting household finances. Some 68% of Americans disapprove of Trump\u2019s handling of the economy, including 37% of self-identified Republicans.<\/p>\n

Voters in the poll picked Democrats over Republicans as the better stewards of the \u2060economy, by \u200b40% to 33%.<\/p>\n

The survey, which was conducted online, gathered responses \u200bfrom 1,679 US adults, including 1,279 registered voters. The poll\u2019s results had a margin of error of 2 percentage points for all respondents \u200band 3 percentage points for registered voters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald \u200cTrump\u2019s approval rating fell to a record low as Americans worried about high gasoline prices and appeared ready to punish his Republican Party in the November 3 congressional elections, according to a Reuters\/Ipsos poll that closed on Monday. Some 31% of Americans approve of Trump\u2019s \u200bperformance in office, down a percentage point from two weeks earlier and the lowest level in \u200beither of his presidential terms, the four-day poll showed. Asked which party they would vote \u2060for if the congressional elections were held today in what is known…<\/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-2978","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\/2978","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=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}