{"id":3768,"date":"2026-11-04T02:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T21:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3768"},"modified":"2026-11-04T02:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T21:04:22","slug":"trump-approval-near-career-low-reuters-ipsos-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3768","title":{"rendered":"Trump approval near career low, Reuters\/Ipsos poll finds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump\u2019s approval \u200brating held near a career low as a broad swath of the US electorate saw \u200ctheir vote in Tuesday\u2019s congressional midterm elections as a way to oppose the Republican president, according to a Reuters\/Ipsos poll completed on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The poll results underscore Republican vulnerabilities brought on by a surge in fuel prices since Trump launched a war on \u200bIran in February. Voters in the nationwide poll said they preferred Democrats over Republicans \u2014 46% to \u200b38% \u2014 in what is known as a \u201cgeneric ballot\u201d question.<\/p>\n

Still, that 8-percentage-point Democratic advantage was \u2060narrower than in a Reuters\/Ipsos poll conducted a week earlier, when Democrats led by 11 points.<\/p>\n

The generic ballot \u200bquestion gives an overall view of which party voters nationwide would like to see in charge in Congress, \u200bthough it does not capture the nuances of the state-by-state and district-by-district contests that determine control of the US Senate and US House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s fellow Republicans are fighting to retain the party\u2019s majorities in Congress.<\/p>\n

Political strategists from both parties think Democrats \u200bhave the best shot at winning control of the House, where all 435 seats are up for grabs. \u200bDemocrats face a more difficult path to victory in the US Senate, with the party on the defensive in Alaska \u200cand Michigan \u2060in recent days.<\/p>\n

While Trump won\u2019t be on the ballot, he looms large in the election.<\/p>\n

Some 32% of poll respondents said they approved of the job Trump was doing in the White House, unchanged from a week earlier and just above his record-low reading of 31% two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Among registered voters, some 50% of independents said \u200bthey saw their vote in \u200bcongressional elections as a \u2060vote against Trump, compared with 13% who said it was a vote for Trump and 33% who said the president wasn\u2019t a factor in their vote.<\/p>\n

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Some 78% \u200bof voters said the rising cost of living would be very important or the \u200bmost important \u2060issue in deciding how to vote. Asked which party was better on the issue, voters in the poll picked Democrats over Republicans, 43% to 32%.<\/p>\n

Democrats appear to have more enthusiasm about voting, which the party hopes will lead \u2060to an \u200badvantage in voter turnout. Some 49% of Democratic voters said they \u200bare \u201cvery enthusiastic\u201d about voting this year, compared with 33% of Republicans.<\/p>\n

The latest Reuters\/Ipsos poll surveyed 1,765 US adults online and had a \u200bmargin of error of 2 percentage points.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump\u2019s approval \u200brating held near a career low as a broad swath of the US electorate saw \u200ctheir vote in Tuesday\u2019s congressional midterm elections as a way to oppose the Republican president, according to a Reuters\/Ipsos poll completed on Monday. The poll results underscore Republican vulnerabilities brought on by a surge in fuel prices since Trump launched a war on \u200bIran in February. Voters in the nationwide poll said they preferred Democrats over Republicans \u2014 46% to \u200b38% \u2014 in what is known as a \u201cgeneric ballot\u201d question.…<\/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-3768","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\/3768","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=3768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}