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Democrats are clearly motivated ahead of the 2026 midterm elections despite having mixed feelings about the party’s leadership, a new CNN poll, conducted by SSRS and released Sunday, found. This comes as Trump’s approval rating remains underwater about one year into his second term in office.

Trump's approval rating average sits at 42% as Republicans face significant midterm challenges, with polling showing erosion among Independents and on key issues.

A new CBS News poll shows only 41% of Americans approve of the job President Trump is doing, but there are wide partisan divides on his handling of specific issues like immigration. Willie James Inman has more.

A year after President Donald Trump was sworn in for a second term, his approval rating remains at around 45%, according to Morning Consult’s weekly polling—though voters’ views of his handling of foreign policy dipped to a record-low last week in the wake of the U.S. capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

A 64% majority think Trump has not done enough to reduce the price of goods, and 32% say that he understands problems that ordinary Americans face on a daily basis, the poll revealed. Overall, slightly over 4 in 10 Americans expect the economy to be good a year from now, which is down from 56% before Trump was sworn into office last January.

President marks one-year of second presidency with weak economy and weak poll numbers - Half of Americans now believe Trump has harmed the economy since returning to power, compared to just 35 percent who see an improvement,

Online reactions rolled in Friday after news that President Donald Trump's foreign policy approval rating had sunk to its lowest yet. A new Marist poll found that only 37% of adults in the United States approve of how Trump has handled foreign policy,