One of the questions I get asked the most goes like this: When are Republican elected officials finally going to start standing up to Donald Trump?

And my answer is always the same: As soon as Republican base voters start to turn on him.

Well, we may be there—or heading in that direction.

A new Gallup poll released over the weekend shows Trump at just 36% approval, the lowest he has been in Gallup data in his second term—and very near the lowest ebb the polling firm has ever measured (34% approval after January 6, 2021).

Which is bad!

But the key is the approval numbers broken out by party. In Gallup’s poll last month, Trump was at 91% among Republicans. Now he’s at 84%.

Look, this isn’t the end of the world. If Trump stays in the mid to high 80s among Republican base voters, it is

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