Trump's in a Nixon-Level Danger Zone Heading Into the 2026 Midterms
By Brian Daitzman
President Donald Trump is entering the run-up to the 2026 midterm elections with a Gallup net approval of negative 24, a level that CNN’s chief data analyst, Harry Enten, said is worse than every modern second-term president at this stage except Richard Nixon. On CNN News Central, Enten called the position “a disaster if it holds” toward the midterms.
Enten said Trump is “this far underwater” about a year before the midterms and argued that numbers at this level have historically been dangerous for a president’s party. He presented his warning as a product of Gallup’s long-running approval archive and its record of second-term comparisons.
The warning matters nationally because midterm elections often reorder congressional power and can shift the direction of federal policy.
Enten anchored his argument in Gallup’s newest job-approval release, which showed Trump at 36 percent approval and 60 percent disapproval — his lowest approval rating of the second term, as presented on CNN.
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