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Democrats Gain Momentum ahead of Midterms

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MS NOW, Ali Velshi

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4.7793 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Political strategist Rina Shah; MS NOW Contributor Inzamam Rashid; MS NOW Senior Legal Reporter Lisa Rubin; “The Things They Carried” author Tim O’Brien

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0:00.0

Good afternoon. It's Saturday, April 25th, and you're watching Velshi on MS Now.

0:13.3

I'm Charles Coleman Jr. filling in for my friend and colleague Ali Velshi, and we begin this hour

0:18.2

with midterm season. The White House is feeling it.

0:21.4

Democrats across the country feel it too.

0:24.3

New polling is painting a picture for Republicans, and that picture isn't pretty.

0:29.0

In a P. Nork poll released just this week,

0:32.6

33% of Americans approve of Donald Trump's job as president.

0:37.4

67% disapprove, and that's the lowest approval rating that he's had since returning to office.

0:43.7

52% of registered voters today said that if they had to go to the ballot box,

0:48.7

they'd vote for the Democratic candidate in their congressional district.

0:53.2

And that's according to a Fox News poll.

0:55.9

Republicans majority in the House was already pretty slim, and it currently sits at 217 Republicans

1:02.2

to 212 Democrats with one independent and five vacancies. Now, just five net seats if Democrats

1:10.3

would tip the scales in their favor. And on would tip the scales in their favor. And on

1:14.5

average, the President's Party has actually lost 22 seats in every midterm for the past 50 years.

1:21.6

Now, this Tuesday, voters in Virginia may have made Democratic control of the House more likely.

1:27.1

They approved by a narrow margin, a congressional map that could Virginia may have made Democratic control of the House more likely.

1:32.7

They approved by a narrow margin, a congressional map that could create four new Democratic districts through gerrymandering.

1:35.4

A judge of Virginia then ruled that vote unlawful, which the state immediately appealed.

1:40.8

The Virginia Supreme Court will hear arguments on the case next week. It's the latest

1:45.3

salvo in the mid-decade redistricting war. Now all eyes are turned to Florida, where Governor

1:51.6

Ron DeSantis is considering enacting a new congressional map to aid Republicans. But that's the

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