Trump’s record-low approval may echo GOP strategists’ fears over fuel and war

President Trump’s approval fell to a record-low 33% in a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll released Oct. 18; 71% now say gasoline is not affordable, and 65% called military action in Iran a mistake. Politico reported Oct. 9 that internal GOP polls showed competitive races in formerly safe red seats and that strategists most feared white working-class voters angry over high fuel prices and the war with Iran. Read together, the poll may echo those fears.

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