Trump Approval Rating Holds at 32 Percent Near a Record Low on the Eve of the Midterms, Reuters/Ipsos Poll Finds
A five-day Reuters/Ipsos poll completed Monday puts President Donald Trump's approval at 32 percent — just above his record low — with Democrats leading the generic congressional ballot 46 to 38, an advantage that narrowed from 11 points a week ago.
President Donald Trump's approval rating held near a record low as a broad swath of the US electorate saw their vote in Tuesday's congressional elections as a way to oppose him, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Monday and read in full by the desk. Some 32 percent of respondents said they approved of the job Trump is doing in the White House — unchanged from a week earlier and just above his record-low reading of 31 percent two weeks ago.
The same poll carried a warning and a hope for both parties. Asked the generic-ballot question — which party they would pick in congressional elections — 46 percent of registered voters chose Democrats and 38 percent chose Republicans, an 8-point Democratic advantage. That is a real lead, but a narrowing one: in the Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted a week earlier, Democrats led by 11 points, and the results showed signs the race could be tightening ahead of Election Day.
The poll surveyed 1,765 US adults online over five days and carries a margin of error of 2 percentage points. For Las Vegas and Clark County, Tuesday's arithmetic is local as well as national: Nevada's own early vote closed with Democrats holding a turnout edge (SQ-20261102-032), and the generic ballot is the national weather in which the county's voters will finish deciding who holds Congress — and how much room the president has to govern for the next two years.
