Trump’s Approval Is at a New Low. Here’s Where Other Presidents’ Stood Before the Midterms—and How Their Parties Fared

Time and Daily Wire report on the final stretch before the midterm elections, with President Donald Trump's standing weak and his party facing a hard contest. Time says Pew Research Center polling put his approval at 30% in early October, the lowest of his second term and the lowest for any president heading into a midterm in decades. Truman in 1946 is the last comparable case. Time adds that an Associated Press-NORC poll found only 26% approve of his handling of the economy, 17% of his work on living costs and 28% of his approach to the war in Iran. Cornell's Peter Enns links the weak numbers to unpopular positions, and Northeastern's Costas Panagopoulos notes that single-party control leaves Republicans as the obvious target for blame.

Daily Wire focuses on Trump's response: a rally schedule running from Ohio through South Carolina, Florida, Kansas and Iowa, his 28th rally of the cycle on Wednesday. It says he is framing the vote as a choice between Democrats and his own policies, and it reports that Vice President JD Vance acknowledged Republicans are "swimming against some serious historical trends."

Summarized by PolitiKool from Time and Daily Wire’s reporting. Read the full story at Time → Also at Daily Wire →