US President Donald Trump’s free-falling approval ratings have brightened the Democratic Party’s chances of gaining House and Senate majorities in November. So what are Trump and the GOP doing about it?
Rigging the midterms in their favor, that’s what — in broad daylight, and straight from the authoritarian playbook.
A recent Washington Post/ABC News/Ipsos poll, shows that an all-time high 62% now disapprove of the Trump presidency. The reasons: surging inflation and soaring gas prices resulting from his disastrous tariffs and continuing war on Iran, respectively.
Even canned goods — a go-to source of sustenance for many low-income Americans — are getting more expensive, thanks in part to Trump’s tariff on imported tin and aluminum. Callously, he told reporters, “I don’t think of Americans’ finances,” in pursuing his war on Iran. Not a good message to voters already grappling with affordability.
Most Republicans remain loyal to Trump, but recent polls show independent — even former Trump voters — beginning to drift away. A surge in Democratic and independent turnout could spell disaster for the GOP in November.
