calling for a cease-fire in the yemen civil war. there are significant obstacles to ending the conflict for iran iran-backed yemeni rebels and saudi arabia. in america s election headquarters, new fox news polls and some of the senate races we are looking at. first let s go to missouri. we were just there talking to the incumbent, democrat claire mccaskill against of the attorney general republican. take a look at our poll, tied 43-43. each one of these states, also interesting to look at, president trump s approval rating. in missouri, 54% disapprove in the state of missouri. that state extremely tight according to our polling. if we go out west to arizona, republican martha mcsally, democrat christian cinema , we also have it tied. the president approval rating in
dropped and it is not an outlier as it goes back up. since the second world war we know that when a president s approval rating is below 45% it tends to spell major trouble. there have been a number of case where is that has been the case. as this graphic shows, when that happens, we see that the president s approval rating when it s below a threshold, below 45 or below 50% that spells major trouble. the seat loss for the president s party in that particular case is below greater than 35%. 35 seats, excuse me. republican strategists tell me flat out a five point swing this the president approval rating is worth 20 seats to them. when he was at 36 they told me if they say here that s 20 seats they are going the lose. when you approve of the president s job you are probably going to vote for the republican candidate. when you disapprove you are probably going to vote for the
gentlem gentlemen, good evening. let s put this up, harry. in a trio of polls they have the president s approval rating sort of in the high 30s right here, right? i mean, that s down from what each poll had the last time they asked voters if they approve of this president. do you think that s an ominous sign? people s choice of a mid material election align with how they feel about the president. the lower the approval rating goes the higher the vote should go so if the president approval rating is falling, it s good news for democrats. nathan, the abc news washington post poll shows that democrats with a 14-point lead in the generic ballot which asks whether the voters prefer republican ordeal cat ti democr two months away, can republicans turn that around? two months from right now at
that argument last night in indiana. saying look my poll numbers with my own party republican voters they are through the roof. and the president the last six months that s been a story. trumps approval rating with republicans has been that high. it s meant his over all approval rating has been in the low to maybe mid-40s. that s not great. but republicans have been saying if we can keep it around there, maybe a point or two higher we have a shot at holding on to the house. that has been the story and this morning, along comes this. brand new poll. washington post the president approval rating just 36%. a 60% disapproval score. no republicans out there telling you they think they can hang on to the house if it s at 36%. or anywhere near 36%. in the findings as you might expect when you re talking about 36% look at this. 24% strongly approve of the
in ohio, reluctant trump voters. they were asked do you approve. yeah, more or less. better than the alternative. i hate the media. i don t like nancy pelosi. what about 2020? i m not so sure about that. huge story for the washington post . one of the things he talked about a lot of trump triers. people were willing to try trump out of frustration not because they hated hillary clinton but they were frustrated. those were rubs and also some democrats who said let me just try. it can t get much worse. that s also what we re seeing in those numbers. we re seeing i tried it and i don t like eugene scott, if yo our poll, the president of the united states has 88 president approval rating among republicans. a few reluctant republicans and independent voters in the middle. absolutely. i think it s important for people to remember that