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Trump approval rating sank as gas prices rose heading into midterms
According to an Oct. 8 poll from Navigator Research, 76% of registered U.S. voters disapproved of Trump's handling of gas prices, while only 20% approved. The poll also showed that 73% of registered voters disapproved of Trump's handling of inflation and the cost of living, while just 23% approved.
Polls show Latino voters souring on Trump’s failed promises
“Trump ran on a promise to make America safer and bring costs down for working families. Instead, he’s built a mass deportation machine that’s tearing families and communities apart, and American families are footing the bill,” she said during the briefing joined by researchers from Equis, Navigator Research and Third Way.
Presidents get blamed for the economy. A new report argues Trump actually deserves it.
Yet Americans remain unconvinced; 76% disapprove of Trump’s handling of gas prices, an October poll by Navigator Research showed.
1 in 4 Trump Voters Have Buyer’s Remorse: How Will It Shape the Midterms?
Midterms are almost always a referendum on the president and party in power, and this year is no different. Three key trends are defining the midterm cycle, and the first is the biggest: a deeply unpopular president. President Trump’s job approval rating has plummeted, falling to 36 percent in Navigator Research’s latest tracking, with 62 percent of Americans disapproving. Pew Research has Trump’s approval rating even lower, at only 30 percent. The last time a U.S. president’s approval rating was this low before the midterms was eight decades ago under Harry Truman back in 1946, during which Republicans gained 55 seats in Congress.
Losers List Getting Longer
First on The Sun: Incoming Congress urged to go big, or be sent home. “This wasn’t an election about the old moderate-versus-progressive divide. It was a rejection of Trumpism and the status quo in search of transformative economic populism,” reads new post-election research from Democratic messaging firm Navigator being sent to party leaders on the Hill today.
Republicans Tried to Turn the Cheesecake Factory Against Democrats. It Flopped.
The 2024 election was a triumph for the right’s conception of class politics, with Trump making gains with low-income voters while Kamala Harris won those earning over $200,000 a year. In surveys and focus groups, voters described Democrats as elitist and condescending. When the Democratic firm Navigator Research polled swing districts after the last election, 56 percent of respondents said the party didn’t look out for working people, and a majority said Democrats didn’t share their values. The road to winning back working-class voters looked difficult and uncertain.
Gen Z has buyer’s remorse on Trump
Tina Tang of the Democratic-aligned firm Navigator Research has conducted many focus groups interviewing young people who now regret voting for Trump. She told me that many of those “Trump regretters” said they’d initially hoped he would bring change to the political system generally, and that he’d deliver on his promises about the economy and jobs.
Trump brushes off high gas prices. Polling shows voters don’t
Seventy-six percent of registered U.S. voters disapprove of Trump's handling of gas prices, while only 20% approve, according to an Oct. 8 poll from Navigator Research.