Donald Trump’s Approval Rating crashes to worse than any American President since 1945 just days before U.S. Midterm elections 2026

U.S. midterm elections 2026 are just days away but Donald Trump approval ratings have plunged to record lows in poll trackers. This is a reason to worry for Republicans and cheer for Democrats. In Nate Silver tracker, Trump's approval rating fell to minus 22.4. Apart from this, net approval has gone down to minus 22.4 points in VoteHub polling average.

VoteHub head of data science Zachary Donnini has claimed that Trump's net approval of minus 22.4 points, worse than any President at the midterm stage since 1945 when the tracking mechanism started, NewsWeek reported.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is pressing forward with an unprecedented push for his administration to obtain sensitive voter data ahead of the US midterm elections, despite repeated losses in court, in a hunt for noncitizens illegally registered to vote, though there has been no evidence of widespread fraud of this kind.


Responding to a legal challenge to a key element of Trump's plans, Justice Department lawyers are set to ask a federal judge in Maryland on Friday not to block the Department of Homeland Security from creating lists of US citizens who are eligible to vote. Trump's fellow Republicans are fighting to keep control of Congress in the November 3 midterms.

Greenbelt, Maryland-based US District Judge Paula Xinis is holding a hearing in a lawsuit by privacy advocates seeking to block the department's plans to implement an executive order Trump signed in March. The order directed DHS to create the citizen lists using data housed throughout the federal government and share them with state election officials. Under the order, state officials could face criminal prosecution if ineligible people are found to have voted in their states.

The federal government has never previously compiled any such lists. The US Constitution assigns the administration of federal elections to individual states.

The plaintiffs argue that the DHS plan to create the lists would collect information on American citizens from other federal government entities including the Social Security Administration in ways that violate privacy laws.

Trump for years has made false claims about widespread voting fraud in the United States including his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. Trump, who has said he is acting to protect the integrity of US elections, also has asserted that states are not doing enough to remove noncitizens and dead people from their voter rolls.

Critics have said Trump's current drive is aimed at disenfranchising eligible Democratic-leaning voters.

They note that a federal immigration database known as SAVE, which is one of the sources that Trump's executive order directs DHS to consult in building its lists of eligible voters, has mistakenly flagged as noncitizens some Americans who are naturalized US citizens and properly registered to vote. Several Republican-led states already have checked their voter rolls against SAVE.