More Americans than ever before disapprove of US President Donald Trump's actions in office, according to a major new poll in the US.

The fall of 2025 is not a replay of 2017, the year before the Democrats captured control of the US House in Trump's first term.

The Democrats' five-point advantage among registered voters in the generic congressional ballot falls short of the 11-point edge they held in CNN polling a year before the 2018 midterms.

And favourable views of the party still stand near all-time lows as they have throughout this year, eight points below where they were in the fall of Trump's first year in office.

In a mid-term election year, though, views of the president can outweigh perceptions of the opposition party. Trump's approval rating in the poll stands at 37 pe

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