2026 midterms Archives

Democrats Lead By 8 in Generic Poll

September 7, 2026 Buck Banks

8 points

A new University of Massachusetts Amherst poll finds Democrats leading Republicans on the generic congressional ballot, 42% to 34%.

Collins: Let Me Just Say What I’m Not Going to Say

September 4, 2026 Buck Banks

“I’m not going to bring up the fact that the mother of his two children is his second cousin… It’s not something that I’m going to be emphasizing.”

— Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), quoted by Politico, on challenger Troy Jackson (D).

Dems Have 11-Point Lead on Generic Ballot

July 23, 2026 Buck Banks

11

A new Emerson College survey of likely 2026 voters finds the Democrats with an 11-point advantage over the Republicans on the generic congressional ballot, leading 53% to 42%. President Trump holds a 39% job approval rating, consistent with the past two months, whereas his disapproval increased another point, to 57%.

Is This Election Rigging?

July 23, 2026 Buck Banks

A new round of Trumpian tariffs are making the news,
And Republicans are singing those “lost Midterm Blues.”
Gas prices are high and affordability’s low,
And there’s something both parties want to know:
Is Trump deliberately trying to make the GOP lose?

Kicking EAC’s Ass

July 10, 2026 Buck Banks

Donald Trump is determined to influence the 2026 midterm election,
And the subservient conservative Supreme Court gave him permission.
Trump fired the Democrats on the EAC,
And how that effects the midterms, we’ll see,
But the mob boss likely will get his way — through subversion and coercion.

Trump Is Reviving the ‘Red Menace’ Ahead of the Midterms

July 9, 2026 Buck Banks

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.

Trump’s Midterm Comeuppance Is Coming

June 17, 2026 Buck Banks

“Trump has no earthly idea of what’s coming for him. They’re not telling him. The vote against him in November is gonna be like, breathtaking.”

— James Carville, quoted by Mediaite.

Trump Holds $550 Million Ahead of Midterms

April 21, 2026 Buck Banks

$550 million

“President Donald Trump’s super political action committee raised $35.6 million in March, bolstering his war chest to $550 million as he tries to defy history by hanging onto congressional Republican majorities in an increasingly difficult midterm election environment,” Bloomberg reports.

Trump Is Underwater in 134 Republican-Held Districts

April 8, 2026April 13, 2026 Buck Banks

135

G. Elliot Morris: “New estimates I’ve produced show that Trump’s approval rating is below 50% among registered voters in 135 Republican-held congressional seats — 104 in the House and 31 in the Senate. … And his approval is below 45% in jurisdictions represented by 44 Republican members of Congress — 34 in the House and 10 in the Senate.”

Voters Are Abandoning the Republican Party in Droves

April 7, 2026 Buck Banks

57%

A new survey finds that approximately 20% of 2024 Trump voters may not vote Republican in 2028, and that almost 57% of voters who switched from Biden in 2020 to Trump in 2024 are considering abandoning the Republican party in 2028.

8 points

A new University of Massachusetts Amherst poll finds Democrats leading Republicans on the generic congressional ballot, 42% to 34%.

“I’m not going to bring up the fact that the mother of his two children is his second cousin… It’s not something that I’m going to be emphasizing.”

— Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), quoted by Politico, on challenger Troy Jackson (D).

11

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.

“Trump has no earthly idea of what’s coming for him. They’re not telling him. The vote against him in November is gonna be like, breathtaking.”

— James Carville, quoted by Mediaite.

$550 million

“President Donald Trump’s super political action committee raised $35.6 million in March, bolstering his war chest to $550 million as he tries to defy history by hanging onto congressional Republican majorities in an increasingly difficult midterm election environment,” Bloomberg reports.

135

57%

A new survey finds that approximately 20% of 2024 Trump voters may not vote Republican in 2028, and that almost 57% of voters who switched from Biden in 2020 to Trump in 2024 are considering abandoning the Republican party in 2028.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Jane Haman

“We’re working through some political issues in Israel. I think we agree with them on the end state. They just have a crazy election, and that makes them a little irrational in certain regards.”

— Jared Kushner, quoted by CBS News, on the lack of progress in Gaza.

“If they haven’t understood by now, they should understand before it’s too late that the rules of the game have changed and that from now on, any violation of Iran’s interests and security will receive a ‘faster, heavier, and more painful’ response.”

— “Iran’s ‘proportionate responses’ to U.S. attacks are over, the country’s parliament speaker and top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Sunday, while acknowledging the economic impact of the war,” CNBC reports.

Numerati

$100 billion

36%, 27%

A new Economist/YouGov poll finds the president’s approval at 36%, while 60% disapprove. Key takeaway: Just 27% of adults aged 30 to 44 approved of Trump’s job performance, while 70% disapproved.

8 points

A new University of Massachusetts Amherst poll finds Democrats leading Republicans on the generic congressional ballot, 42% to 34%.

70%

A new American University Sine Institute of Policy & Politics poll finds 70 percent of respondents aged 18 to 34 said they weren’t proud of “where America is heading as a nation.”

50,000

“ICE officers and agents arrested roughly 50,000 people in August,” NBC News reports. “That number is on par with July’s number, which was the highest single monthly arrest total during the second Trump administration.”