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

US President Donald Trump dismissed various poll results showing his approval ratings at all-time lows due to high oil prices and inflation on the 4th (local time), urging his core support base, MAGA, to turn out and vote in the midterm elections.

Writing on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump stated, "Polls have always underestimated MAGA." He added, "They (pollsters) tried to suppress voting, but I won all 7 swing states, the nationwide popular vote, 86% of counties, and 99% of this year's primary elections."

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

During the actual 2024 presidential election, various polls showed Trump and former Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris locked in a neck-and-neck race until the final stretch, but once vote counting began, Trump maintained his lead and secured a landslide victory.

Trump then declared, "I am on the ballot."

This is interpreted as an encouragement to his base to vote as if he were running in this midterm election.

In particular, Trump specifically cited positive midterm election outlooks conveyed to him by Dick Morris, a political strategist who transitioned from being a political advisor to former Democratic President Bill Clinton to the Republican camp.

Trump shared that Morris cited polling results from Jim McLaughlin, who has long handled internal polling for the Trump campaign, stating, "In monthly polls conducted by McLaughlin since November 2025, your approval rating has consistently been 47% to 50%."

Morris noted that in McLaughlin's poll this month, Trump's approval rating stood at 49%, while the generic ballot projection showed Democrats at 50% and Republicans at 48%, claiming, "These numbers alone are enough for Republicans to hold the House. Past records show that when the Democratic lead is under 4 percentage points, the Republicans have a strong chance of winning the House."

However, the 49% approval rating cited by Trump differs significantly from the election polling results commonly cited by US media outlets.

According to the latest polling averages compiled by The New York Times (NYT) on this day, President Trump's approval rating stood at 37%, with his disapproval rating at 61%.

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