Commentary
Here we are with just 21 days until Election Day, November 3, 2026, and the questions mount even though I personally believe the choice is clear.
No question, President Trump has accomplished more in his second term than any other president. But he’s not on the ballot, you say. That’s right, but the congressional candidates who support him are there and they aren’t ashamed to say so, even though the opposition, haters of Trump, are using that against them. You need to get out and vote and support them.
For instance, take Jay Feely, the candidate for Arizona’s Congressional Seat 1. The opposition refers to Feely’s close ties to Donald Trump and his policies, with the tired rubber stamp claim.
Republicans should want someone who will support the president. When you stop and think about the Republican obstructionists, like Murkowski and Tillis, who block passage of a bill, think about how Democrats held firm together under Pelosi.
Now, about those questions
It is said that Trump no longer has the popularity that helped him win overwhelmingly in 2024.
Of course, he openly challenges that statement, claiming it comes largely from the fake news, conducting several of the polls. He calls attention to the packed arenas in his current rally blitz, where people are turned away due to the confines of space.
As he continues to campaign for supporting candidates, he exhibits the reason he was so popular in 2024.
A number of the polls are dated, however, in a poll released on October 8, 2026, in USA Today, it found that only 30% of Americans approved of Trump’s handling of the presidency, marking the president’s lowest approval rating of his second term.
Consider this. Trump won in 2024 despite the 29 percent approval rating at the end of his first term.
While Trump’s sinking approval numbers come just weeks before the highly contested midterm elections, as Republicans seek to hold onto slim majorities in Congress, the leftist media constantly remind us that the incumbent party isn’t “supposed” to win.
Wall Street Journal columnist William A. Galston wrote, “Democrats are odds-on favorites to win control of the House, and an even-money bet the four seats they need for a 51-49 majority in the Senate,” claiming that anecdotal evidence that” Democrats are more enthusiastic than Republicans about voting in November and are more likely to do so.”
“Voters aren’t happy, and we’re in charge,” warned Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana.
With leaders like Schumer and Jeffries and the dire thought of socialism in America, how can we really believe Democrats hold an eight-point advantage over Republicans in a generic congressional ballot?
With a recent Pew Research Center poll revealing that 84 percent of registered voters said the economy was very important to their vote, it begs the question of Trump’s job performance as it relates to the economy.
While Pew reports that 67 percent of Trump voters approve of his job performance, it marks a 28-percentage-point drop since the beginning of his term.
Though the media continues to over-emphasize the price of gas at the pump, sure to see it go down soon, they avoid mentioning that we are in an unprecedented economic boom and the Trump policies behind it.
Except for the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, who commented last week. “You’d be forgiven for thinking the U.S. is slouching toward recession based on the gloomy headlines,” noting that the Commerce Department revised its growth estimates for the first half of the year. “Evidence keeps coming that investment and growth are picking up.”
Some things to think about
Middle-Class family income increased nearly $6,000 – more than five times the gains during the entire previous administration. Wages rose fastest for low-income and blue-collar workers – a 16 percent pay increase. The bottom 50 percent of American households saw a 40 percent increase in net worth.
More than 6 million American workers received wage increases, bonuses, and increased benefits thanks to the tax cuts. A typical family of four earning $75,000 received an income tax cut of more than $2,000 – slashing their tax bill in half.
More Americans reported being employed than ever before – nearly 160 million. Jobless claims hit a nearly 50-year low.
Unemployment for women hit its lowest rate in nearly 70 years.
Income inequality fell for two straight years, and by the largest amount in over a decade.
Doubled the child tax credit and introduced the innovative Trump Accounts with a $1,000 government seed money for children.
All part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act – the largest tax reform package in history. With it, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security and no tax on a made-in- America car loan interest.
Through Trump’s insisting on favored nation status, he delivered the biggest drop in prescription drugs in 63 years.
Voters should also recognize the $19 trillion in U.S. manufacturing investment he secured that will provide thousands of jobs in the future.
Reducing regulations and the nuisance red tape often associated with it has been a priority.
Meanwhile, while some Democrats are on the fence with Democrat socialism, Robert Garcia and Jaime Raskin have plans for another go at impeaching Trump, and others are advocating a return of the Green New Deal while Hakeem Jeffries is focusing on “affordability” even though the party stands for more government spending, higher taxes, and more regulation.
It’s laughable because Democrat-run states are less “affordable.”
“Democrats are trying to capitalize on voter frustration with inflation by running on “affordability,” opined the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, adding “but let’s look at their record in power on the cost of living and what they propose if they win. Affordable by whom is the question.”
VOTE as if your future depends on it because it does.
