President Donald Trump has locked on to a new excuse for the GOP’s impending 2026 midterm losses: It’s the messaging, not the results.

“We’re doing an extremely poor job of promotion and an extremely great job of running the country,” he said Wednesday at the White House.

CNN’s Abby Phillip discusses the different ways Trump has recently framed the Republican party’s struggles ahead of the midterm elections with her Table of Five political pundits.

0:00 How has Trump explained Republican headwinds during the midterm election season?
1:41 Are GOP candidates acknowledging Trump’s polling unpopularity on the campaign trail?
4:54 Republican senator warns that the 2026 election could mirror the results in 2006

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President Trump’s net approval rating on inflation hit -65 points in AP-NORC’s cost of living poll Thursday. CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten points out that this rating is the record low not only for Trump, but for any president ever. Enten also observes that Trump is the first president to poll below -50% net approval on inflation ever: “Donald Trump is underwater. . .among Democrats, independents, and Republicans as well.”

Also, Abby Phillip’s “NewsNight” panel debates Trump’s historic unpopularity.

0:00 “Oops, he did it again”: Enten on Trump hitting another new all-time low
1:37 “How about with independents?” Enten on implications for midterms
3:15 Abby Phillip presents Trump’s underwater net approval ratings on multiple issues
4:19 Ex-Trump aide Hogan Gidley: “Two years of record-setting success” for Trump
8:56 Scott Jennings: “You want to surrender to Iran?”

Watch Harry’s show, ‘The Enten Scale’, on CNN: https://cnn.it/4rXUcHz

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With just weeks until the high-stakes midterm elections, President Trump is set to headline rallies in Republican-favoring states this week. ABC News’ Steven Portnoy has the latest.

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CNN Chief Data Analyst Harry Enten runs the numbers, from GOP senate nominee Ken Paxton’s negative net popularity to whether Trump would win a hypothetical 2026 election.

0:00 Ken Paxton is the “least popular TX senate candidate this century”
3:05 Vance’s 2028 chances as he pulls away from Rubio
6:13 Trump sinks to worst net approval on inflation for any president
9:16 Would Trump win a hypothetical 2026 election?

Watch Harry’s show, ‘The Enten Scale’, on CNN: https://cnn.it/4rXUcHz

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