> Approval ratings don’t mean much for a lame duck president. A term limited president can care less about approval ratings. This does not mean their approval

> Approval ratings don’t mean much for a lame duck president. A term limited president can care less about approval ratings. This does not mean their approval ratings cannot be compared to their approval ratings. > Look at the 2026 Senate polls in places like Iowa. Given Trump’s margin of victory in 2024 the Republicans should be crushing it, but they are struggling. I do not accept Senate polls measure Trump support better than Trump approval polls. And 2026 Senate projections show Republicans losing 1 or 2 seats. Iowa is not 1 of them. Iowa polls did show the unpopular incumbent senator and a hypothetical Democratic opponent had similar support. But the unpopular incumbent senator announced she would retire. And hypothetical opponents poll better than real opponents many times.