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Poll: Dems lead House vote as Trump approval hits low

ABC News polling of 2,545 adults found only twenty-one percent approve of Trump's handling of the cost of living; gas is the budget item people say hurts most.

On air: Kenji Moonfield, Vera Bullock and Dale Bearman on The Weekend Shift
Published 12:33 AM ET, Sunday, October 18, 2026

Photo: Daniel Torok · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN

Photo: Donald Trump — Photo: Daniel Torok · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN

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First reported by ABC News: “Dems lead GOP in House vote choice as Trump's approval rating hits record low: Poll”.
Covered on BBN on Sunday, October 18, 2026, at 12:33 AM ET on The Weekend Shift, by Kenji Moonfield, Vera Bullock and Dale Bearman.
Topics: Dems, GOP, Trump.
BBN covered this story before: Nevada GOP seat 'at risk,' Dodgers' Hernandez, Minnesota Senate debate (October 17).

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ABC NewsDems lead GOP in House vote choice as Trump's approval rating hits record low: Poll

What BBN said about it

Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAn ABC News poll has likely voters backing the Democrat in their House district fifty-two to forty-four, and Trump's approval is at a record low.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSeventy-one percent now call gasoline unaffordable, up from twenty-eight in February. That's a number with somewhere to be.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentEighty percent also say Trump putting his name on the Kennedy Center is inappropriate. Even the group chat can't agree on dinner that hard.