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If you follow politics on NPR, you probably know this voice.

Trump's economic approval rating is only 35%.

That's tied for the worst mark in either of his presidential terms.

That is, of course, NPR senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro reporting on all things considered earlier this month about the results from the latest NPR PBS News and Marist poll.

Whether reporting on NPR's radio shows or the NPR Politics podcast, Domenico not only brings you the numbers, but also the nuance behind the data.

Overall, there still appears to be, I have to say, a COVID economic hangover because pre-COVID,

in February of 2020, we polled on this.

In many ways, the narrative taking shape for these midterms fits the usual pattern.

The president's party looks likely to suffer losses in Congress.

That almost always

happens. But voters this midterm cycle are placing even more blame on President Trump for the

state of the economy. When it comes to actions that Trump has taken proactively, things like

tariffs, the Iran War, which has driven up gas prices, people are blaming him directly for that.

In that latest NPR poll, 63% of respondents said price increases were Trump's fault, including

about a third of Republicans. Consider this. There is a barrage of data and countless other

stories to keep track of when covering elections. So how do you separate the noise from the signal?

From NPR, I'm Emily Fang.

It's considered this from NPR.

NPR senior political editor and correspondent Domenica Montanaro has spent years covering elections and parsing through voter data.

As we sat down for our reporter's notebook series, I started by asking him how he stays focused on the big picture so far out from the November elections.

You have to kind of take these things that can feel very chaotic in the moment,

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