Forty-five percent of registered voters say their November midterm vote will be mainly against President Donald Trump, a Marist University poll found. That includes 80% of Democrats and 54% of independents; 35% of Republicans say he does not factor into their vote.
The NPR- and PBS News-sponsored survey was conducted Sept. 14–15 among 1,280 respondents and has a 3.8-percentage-point margin of error. Democrats led Republicans by 12 points on the generic congressional ballot, a two-point gain from the same poll in May.
Voters said they trusted Democrats more than Republicans on the economy, foreign policy, gas prices and, narrowly, immigration (41% to 38%). Trump’s approval in the Marist poll was 39%, up one point from June, while 53% strongly disapproved.
