Donald Trump ’s approval rating has dropped again amid the nation’s longest government shutdown , sounding alarms the Republican Party ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

The new Emerson College poll , released on Friday, showed Trump’s approval rating slipped 4 percentage points since the poll was last taken in October. The November poll found that Trump had a 41% approval rating and a 49% disapproval rating—a staggering difference from the poll taken at the beginning of his second administration.

At the start of his administration, the poll found Trump had a 49% approval rating and a 41% disapproval rating. His plummeting approval numbers come as the shutdown drags into record territory, with neither Republicans nor Democrats showing any signs of compromising to reopen the govern

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