“49% support Democratic candidates, who lead Republicans by 10 percentage points” — U.S. midterms

[Financial News] With the U.S. midterm elections on November 3 just over 10 days away, President Donald Trump’s job approval rating stands at 32%, its lowest ever in CNN polling.
The share of voters who said they would support a Democratic candidate in the midterm elections was 10 percentage points higher than the share favoring a Republican candidate.
According to a poll conducted by CNN through the polling firm SSRS and released on the 21st (local time), Trump’s job approval rating was 32%, down 7 percentage points from just before the midterm elections during his first term in 2018.
Just 13% said they strongly approved of Trump’s performance as president, a 17-percentage-point drop from the 2018 midterm elections.
Asked which party’s candidate they would support in their district, 49% named the Democratic Party and 39% the Republican Party.
This is the Democrats’ largest lead over the Republicans in a CNN poll since one conducted just before the 2020 presidential election.
The Democrats led the Republicans by 70 percentage points among Black voters, 40 points among Hispanic voters, and 21 points among women. They also held a 15-point lead among independents.
Dissatisfaction with rising prices is believed to have played a major role in Trump’s declining approval rating.
In this poll, Trump’s approval rating for his economic policies was 27%, while only 23% approved of his handling of inflation.
Even among Republican supporters, Trump’s approval rating was 74%, down by more than 10 percentage points from 88% in February last year.
Despite this, many voters expected that things would not improve even if the Democrats took control of Congress.
Forty-one percent of respondents said the country’s situation would improve if the Democrats won the midterm elections. Thirty-seven percent thought it would get worse, while 22% said there would be little difference.
CNN said that many of the key battlegrounds are areas Trump won by large margins in the last presidential election, making it uncertain whether the Democrats’ polling advantage will translate into substantial gains in seats.
The poll was conducted from the 15th to the 18th among 1,701 U.S. adults, including 1,206 registered voters. The margin of error is ±2.9 percentage points for all adults and ±3.3 points for registered voters.

[email protected] Lee Seok-woo, International Affairs Correspondent Reporter