"Midterms Are Tomorrow"... Trump's Approval Rating Hovering Near Lowest Level of His Term

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With the U.S. midterm elections taking place on November 3 local time just a day away, a poll showed that U.S. President Donald Trump's approval rating remained hovering near the lowest level of his entire presidency.

According to the results of a poll concluded today by Reuters and commissioned to the polling firm Ipsos on November 2, only 32% of respondents positively evaluated President Trump's handling of his job.

This is the same level as the job approval rating recorded in a poll conducted by Reuters and Ipsos a week ago.

It was 1 percentage point higher than the record-low 31% during President Trump's first and second terms recorded two weeks ago.

President Trump's approval rating has been on a downward slope since February, when the U.S., alongside Israel, attacked Iran and the war began.

Background factors cited include the increased economic burden on households as gasoline prices surged due to the war.

In fact, 78% of voters considered the issue of rising living costs to be a very important or the most important issue in determining their vote in this election.

In the party support question, 46% of voters chose the Democratic Party and 38% chose the Republican Party, slightly narrowing the gap between the Democratic and Republican parties from 11 percentage points in the survey a week ago to 8 percentage points.

49% of Democratic voters answered that they were "very enthusiastic" about participating in this year's midterm elections, surpassing the proportion of Republican voters who gave the same answer (33%).

Looking at recent polling trends and forecasting agency analyses, it is seen as likely that the Democratic Party will recapture the majority in the House of Representatives in this midterm election, and the Senate is also expected to be a tight race.

If the Republican Party loses its majority status in either the Senate or the House of Representatives of the federal Congress, setbacks could occur in pushing forward President Trump's national agenda during his remaining two years in office.

This poll was conducted online from October 29 to November 2 among 1,765 adults.

The sampling error is plus or minus 2 percentage points.

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