{"id":32291,"date":"2026-08-08T10:58:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=32291"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:58:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:58:04","slug":"trump-says-voters-are-angry-with-republicans-but-not-with-him-heres-what-polls-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=32291","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says Voters Are Angry With Republicans\u2014But Not With Him. Here\u2019s What Polls Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The President has brushed off his low polling numbers as having been \u201cmade up by the Fake News Media.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cMy REAL Polling Numbers, not those made up by the Fake News Media, are the best they have ever been,\u201d Trump claimed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117031820986118471\" target=\"undefined\">Truth Social post<\/a> on Monday. \u201cDon\u2019t believe the Radical Left\u2019s Fake Poll Numbers. They are Crooked and Corrupt, just like the Country Destroying Dumocrats are Crooked and Corrupt. VOTE REPUBLICAN FOR GREATNESS IN AMERICA!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Recent surveys have indicated that Democrats are <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/08\/04\/midterm-elections-republicans-democrats-polls-economy-trump\/\" target=\"undefined\">leading<\/a> over Republicans on generic ballots, with just a few months before the pivotal November midterm elections. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/sites\/default\/files\/ct\/news\/documents\/2026-08\/Reuters%20Ipsos%20August%20Large%20Sample%20Topline%208.3.26_0.pdf\" target=\"undefined\">Reuters\/Ipsos poll<\/a> released this week found that 42% of registered voters said they would cast their ballot for a Democratic congressional candidate if the midterms were held that day, while 37% would back a Republican congressional candidate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/28524353-cnn-july-poll-conducted-by-ssrs-midterms-parties\/\" target=\"undefined\">recent CNN\/SSRS poll<\/a> also suggested that support is higher for Democrats than it is for Republicans: when asked which party\u2019s congressional candidate they would vote for if an election were taking place that day, 47% of registered voters said they would back the Democrat, compared to just 39% who said they would cast their ballot for the Republican. That 8-point difference is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/01\/18\/politics\/cnn-poll-democrats-are-deeply-motivated-for-the-midterms-despite-having-dismal-views-of-party-leaders\" target=\"undefined\">up from a 5-point gap<\/a> between the two parties that was marked by CNN in January.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President has brushed off his low polling numbers as having been \u201cmade up by the Fake News Media.\u201d \u201cMy REAL Polling Numbers, not those made up by the Fake News Media, are the best they have ever been,\u201d Trump claimed in a Truth Social post on Monday. \u201cDon\u2019t believe the Radical Left\u2019s Fake Poll&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.time.com\/v3\/assets\/bltea6093859af6183b\/blt827301ea2c370d95\/6a7616e9bf22b22f39954017\/Trump-Republicans-Approval.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pics-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}