A brutal final round of polling has humiliated President Donald Trump as he jets around the country in a desperate attempt to win back voters.
Trump, 80, spoke for two hours at a rally at the Five Flags Center in Iowa on Sunday, where he faced demonstrators outside and inside the venue.
He then headed to Salinas, Kansas, for another rally to support Republican candidates in the traditionally ruby-red state ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections.
However, despite Trump’s groundwork, new polling puts Democrats ahead of Republicans in all seven key battleground states that must be won to control the Senate and challenge Trump’s power over the final two years of his presidency.
The final set of polls from The New York Times and Siena University before the midterm elections shows the Democratic Senate candidate was viewed more favorably than the Republican candidate in every state except Maine—where Republican Susan Collins is 6 points behind her Democratic challenger.
Critically, the Democrats have made major gains in Texas, where a Democrat has not been elected to the Senate since 1988, and also in Kansas, where the last was elected in 1932.
The damning results come after Trump’s heavy focus on Texas, where his MAGA ally Ken Paxton, the longtime state attorney general, is taking on Democrat James Talarico.
The poll shows 50 percent of likely voters backing Talarico, whom Trump has repeatedly insulted. Paxton, whom Trump backed over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in a brutal Republican primary, trails at 43 percent.
The president hosted the first-ever Republican midterm convention in Dallas in September and last week did back-to-back rallies in Texas as he attempted to win back estranged MAGA supporters disillusioned by his war on Iran.
The new results found that only 38 percent of likely voters approved of Trump’s performance as president in the seven key states in the poll, which the Times pointed out was “strikingly low” considering Trump had won five of the states by double digits only two years ago.
The results were even worse for another key state, Michigan, where rising Democrat star Abdul El-Sayed has 53 percent of the vote, while Republican candidate Mike Rogers is languishing on 42 percent.
Trump’s fascination with the rear end of Republican Jon Husted has not helped his popularity in Ohio, where Husted is at 44 percent, behind Democrat Sherrod Brown at 49 percent.
In Maine, Democrat Troy Jackson leads Sen. Collins, a 30-year Senate veteran, by 51 percent to 45 percent.
In Iowa, where Trump attended a rally on Sunday to support his pick Ashley Hinson, polls showed she is in danger of losing to Democrat Josh Turek, who is at 48 percent, with Hinson on 47. The New York Times judged that the race was “effectively tied.”
Hours after the Times poll was released showing Turek ahead of Hinson, he told MS NOW’s We the People he was feeling “a whole lot of momentum.”
“Iowans are ready for change,” Turek said. “Everywhere that we’re going we’re hearing lots from independents, from card-carrying Republicans, folks saying ‘I voted for Trump once, twice, three times but I’m voting for you because we don’t want someone like Ashley Hinson who is gonna go up to the U.S. Senate just to make herself more wealthy.’”
Turek added, “I think we’re going to do something historic come Tuesday.”
Republican incumbent Roger Marshall is seeking a second term in Kansas, but polls show Democratic pastor Adam Hamilton is leading on 49 percent, to just 44 percent for Marshall.
Marshall spoke at Trump’s rally in Kansas on Sunday, telling him, “This may be your last rally until your next re-election victory in a couple of years.”
Trump has also been fixated on the result in Alaska, although his pick, Dan Sullivan, is polling at 46 percent, with Democrat Mary Peltola on 48 percent.
The poll was conducted with voters in Alaska, Iowa, Maine, Ohio, Kansas, Michigan, and Texas between Oct. 23 and Nov. 1.
Those polled said they believed Democrats would do a better job of bringing the cost of living down, dealing with foreign wars, and doing what is best for ordinary people.
Democrats must flip at least four seats to win a majority in the Senate, as well as defending all the seats they currently hold.
Trump has promised $5,000 each to adult American citizens if Republicans retain control of the Senate and the House of Representatives after the midterms.
The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment.
