If Republicans face a debacle in November and lose the Senate, a principal factor will be that President Donald Trump’s standing on the economy has deteriorated substantially compared with where it stood during the midterm elections of his first term.
During 2018, despite Trump’s overall approval hovering in the low forties, voters consistently backed him on the economy, with his economic approval rating at or above 50 percent, according to Gallup.
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