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Democrats’ Midterm Momentum

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MS NOW, Ali Velshi

Ali Velshi, Government, News, Politics, News Commentary, Versant, Ms Now, Versant Media, Weekend News

4.7793 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The Lincoln Project’s Stuart Stevens; The Atlantic’s Adam Harris; MS NOW Senior National Security Reporter David Rohde; Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA); MS NOW opinion blogger Ja’han Jones; MS NOW writer Hayes Brown

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0:00.0

Good morning. It's Saturday, April 25th, and you're watching Velshi on MS Now. I'm Charles

0:13.6

Coleman Jr. filling in for my friend and colleague Ali Velshi, and we begin this hour with midterm

0:18.7

season. The White House is feeling it.

0:21.2

Democrats across the country are feeling it too.

0:24.2

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

0:28.6

In an APNORC poll released just this week,

0:32.3

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

0:36.7

Now 67% disapprove, and that's the

0:39.2

lowest approval rating that he's had since returning to office. 52% of registered voters said

0:45.2

if elections were held today, they'd vote for the Democratic candidate in their congressional

0:49.7

district. And that's according to a Fox News poll. Republicans' majority in the House was pretty bare anyway.

0:57.1

It currently sits at 217 Republicans to 12 Democrats with one independent and five vacancies.

1:05.3

Just five net seats gained would tip the scales in favor of Democrats. And on average, the President's party has lost

1:11.8

22 House seats in every midterm for the past 50 years. Now, this Tuesday, voters in Virginia

1:19.9

may have made Democratic control of the House even more likely. They approved by a narrow

1:25.2

margin, a congressional map that could create four new Democratic districts through gerrymandering.

1:31.3

Now, a judge in Virginia then ruled that vote unlawful, which the state immediately appeal.

1:37.1

The Virginia Supreme Court will hear arguments on the case next week.

1:41.1

It's the latest salvo in the mid-decade redistricting war. Now, all eyes are now

1:47.4

turning to Florida where Governor Ronda Santis is considering enacting a new congressional

1:52.0

map to aid Republicans. But that's the House. Let's go to the upper chamber of Congress,

1:56.8

the Senate. Things will not be as easy for Democrats here. To win a majority, they need to

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