Trump Claims Polls 'Always Underestimate MAGA,' Urges Supporters to Vote

U.S. President Donald Trump on the 4th (local time) dismissed various poll results showing his approval ratings at record lows due to high oil and consumer prices, while urging his staunch support base, "MAGA," to vote in the midterm elections.

Trump wrote on the social media platform Truth Social that day, "Polls have always underestimated MAGA," adding, "They (pollsters) tried to suppress voting, but I won all 7 swing states, the national vote, 86% of the counties, and 99% of this year's primary elections."

He pointed out that polling organizations failed to properly capture hidden Trump supporters ahead of the election, while mentioning the 2024 presidential election results where he won and the victory rate of candidates he endorsed in this year's Republican midterm primaries.

In fact, during the 2024 presidential election, various polls showed President Trump and former Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, locked in an ultra-tight neck-and-neck race until the very end, but once vote counting began, President Trump maintained his lead and achieved a landslide victory.

President Trump went on to state, "I am on the ballot."

This is interpreted as an encouragement to his supporters to vote as if he himself were running in these midterms.

In particular, President Trump specifically cited positive midterm election forecasts conveyed to him by Dick Morris, an election strategist who was once a political advisor to former Democratic President Bill Clinton before moving to the Republican camp.

Morris cited survey results from Jim McLaughlin, who has long managed internal polling for the Trump campaign, telling President Trump, "In monthly polls conducted by McLaughlin since November 2025, your approval rating has consistently been between 47% and 50%," according to Trump.

Morris noted in particular that McLaughlin's poll this month showed President Trump's approval rating at 49%, with the general vote projection standing at 50% for Democrats and 48% for Republicans, claiming, "These numbers alone are enough for Republicans to hold the House. Past records show that if the Democratic advantage is less than 4 percentage points, the likelihood of a Republican victory in the House is high," President Trump asserted.

However, the "49%" approval rating cited by President Trump differs significantly from the election poll results typically cited by U.S. media outlets.

Looking at the average of the latest poll results compiled by The New York Times (NYT) that day, President Trump's approval rating stood at 37%, while his disapproval rating was 61%.

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