{"id":3334,"date":"2026-10-27T10:03:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T05:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3334"},"modified":"2026-10-27T10:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T05:03:54","slug":"trump-approval-rises-from-record-low-to-32-ahead-of-midterm-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3334","title":{"rendered":"Trump approval rises from record low to 32% ahead of midterm election"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s public approval rating inched higher to 32%, \u200cup a percentage point from last week\u2019s record low, ahead of the November 3 midterm elections<\/a> that will decide which party controls Congress, according to a Reuters\/Ipsos poll<\/a> completed on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s fellow Republicans are fighting to retain the party\u2019s majorities in the House of Representatives and Senate.<\/p>\n

The five-day nationwide poll also showed that \u200bregistered voters broadly favoured Democrats over Republicans by 47% to 36% when asked which party they would pick for \u200bCongress in what is known as a \u201cgeneric ballot\u201d question.<\/p>\n

Some 11% said they did not know who \u2060they would vote for if the election were held today.<\/p>\n

That gap of 11 percentage points between Democrats and Republicans was 1 \u200bpercentage point tighter than in a Reuters\/Ipsos poll that closed on October 19.<\/p>\n

The latest poll additionally asked undecided voters which party they \u200bwere leaning toward.<\/p>\n

Factoring in their responses, the national race appeared somewhat tighter, with Democrats leading by 9 percentage points, 50% to 41%.<\/p>\n

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

Generic ballot polls are national polls that \u200bprovide an overall view of which party poll respondents would like to see in charge in Congress.<\/p>\n

While these polls provide a \u200bview of national public sentiment, they do not capture the nuances of the state-by-state and district-by-district contests that determine control of the Senate and \u200cHouse, contests \u2060in which Republicans hold some structural advantages.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Steep climb for democrats<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Political analysts generally see the Democrats having a good chance of winning control of the House, but think they face a steeper climb to win the Senate.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen how many voters will actually cast ballots. The voters who appeared most likely to vote still favoured Democrats over Republicans by 9 points, 53% to \u200b44%.<\/p>\n

The fight for Congress has appeared \u200bto turn on views around \u2060inflation, which has surged since Trump ordered military strikes on Iran in February that sent gasoline prices higher.<\/p>\n

Some 73% of voters in the poll said their cost of living was heading in \u200bthe wrong direction.<\/p>\n

Prior to the start of the war, Reuters\/Ipsos polls showed voters preferring Republicans over \u200bDemocrats as the \u2060better stewards of the US economy.<\/p>\n

The latest poll showed 37% of voters said Democrats have a better approach to the economy, compared to 33% who picked Republicans on the issue.<\/p>\n

The poll also suggested Democratic voters were more excited about voting, with 46% of Democrats saying \u2060they were \u200bvery enthusiastic about the midterms, compared to 30% of Republicans who said the \u200bsame.<\/p>\n

The Reuters\/Ipsos poll, which was conducted online, gathered responses from 1,679 US adults, including 1,280 registered voters, and had a margin of error of 2 percentage points for \u200ball adults and 3 points for registered voters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump\u2018s public approval rating inched higher to 32%, \u200cup a percentage point from last week\u2019s record low, ahead of the November 3 midterm elections that will decide which party controls Congress, according to a Reuters\/Ipsos poll completed on Monday. Trump\u2019s fellow Republicans are fighting to retain the party\u2019s majorities in the House of Representatives and Senate. The five-day nationwide poll also showed that \u200bregistered voters broadly favoured Democrats over Republicans by 47% to 36% when asked which party they would pick for \u200bCongress 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-3334","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\/3334","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=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}