Welcome back to Beyond the Polls. This week, I'm joined by the creators of the GOP-leaning

Election Analysis and News website, R-RH Elections. Let's dive in.

Well, if you listen to this podcast, you follow polls, and you know that the president is on a

down swing. The president's job approval

continues to drop, has dropped again. In the last week, he is now at a new low for this term,

although clearly not a low for his time in politics. But his job approval rating on the

real clear politics average is now around 41 and a half percent.

Now, that includes some of those all adult polls that once again have him lower than the registered

voter polls, but his registered voter poll number is 42.4 percent as I record this.

That's awful. That is bad. That is in sure defeat territory for Republicans. It probably doesn't yet put the Senate at risk, but it is not a number where you can feel comfortable that Republicans will hold control of the Senate. These are bad numbers, and the president has to turn it around.

How does he turn it around? Well, obviously, there are some things that are just staring you in

the face, bring the war to a successful conclusion, and eliminate the rise in gas prices that

has occurred as a result of the disclosure of the Strait of Hormuz.

He seems to be trying to do that through the negotiation, but he's also moving thousands of

troops into the region.

Do not be surprised if the war amplifies before it concludes.

Trump seems to be determined to win and not simply declare victory and pump

the Iranian problem down the road. But from a political perspective, things have gotten worse

since he launched the war, not better, and the numbers continue to move in that other direction.

I will note, I am going to be starting, I've already started a weekly column in the Washington Post

appears on Wednesday mornings on the midterms that will turn into a regular newsletter at some point

in the month of April with additional data. But my article, as of this week, mentions that there

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