New NPR Poll Shows Trump is Key Factor in Midterms

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🗓️ 26 October 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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According to a new survey from NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist Poll, more than two-thirds of registered voters say their impression of President Trump will factor into their vote for Congress and nearly half of voters say their opinion of the president will make them more likely to vote for a Democrat for Congress this November. This episode: Congressional correspondent Scott Detrow, political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben and political editor Domenico Montanaro. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, this is Sean. I'm here on the Hanem mansion ride in Disney's Magic Kingdom in Orlando Florida where there are
0:07.0	999 happy haunts, but there is always room for one more this podcast was recorded at
0:13.8	1109 Eastern on Friday, October 26th almost Halloween
0:18.6	Things may have changed by the time you hear keep up with all of NPR's political coverage at npr.org
0:23.6	The NPR one app and on your local public radio station. Okay, here's the show
0:30.3	Is that like John Lennon in the background? Mr. Tamboreen man. What? Do you have the tamboreen? It's part of the ride
0:37.0	He was going through the ride
0:39.2	Hey there. It's the NPR politics podcast with only a week and a half to go before the midterms
0:44.6	NPR PBS and Marist are out with a new poll and if you weren't sure already
0:49.1	There's no doubt about it this election is all about president Donald Trump. I'm Scott Detro. I cover Congress
0:55.7	I'm Danielle Kurtz, Lavin political reporter and I'm Dominican Mancinero political editor everybody. Hey, hey, you got your costume picked up
1:02.9	I'm working on it. I'm working on it more importantly you and I are celebrating flannel Friday. It's flannel Friday
1:08.0	Yes flannel Friday. Domenico didn't get the memo. I have taken the photo though
1:11.7	And that will be posted to Twitter shortly. All right, so about a month ago
1:16.4	We had a poll out we talked about it on this podcast and it got a lot of national attention because it showed a lot of good news for
1:25.0	Republicans
1:26.2	This poll this time around looks like Democrats are going to be the happier people reading it
1:30.5	Well, it looks like essentially that the Kavanaugh confirmation fight and all that it did to fire up Republicans has kind of faded to be perfectly honest
1:38.8	It looks like we've returned to the fundamentals
1:41.2	And that's something that I've been hearing from Republicans quite a bit when you look at the landscape for the House races for example
1:47.4	The vast majority of those races are being run in places that Republicans hold seats and that has not changed
1:55.8	You can see why the Kavanaugh controversy might not be weighing in on races if you look at specific races
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