The Majority Report with Sam Seder
Sep 29, 2026 · 57 min · 15 segments
It's News Day Tuesday on The Majority Report with Sam Seder On today's program: Polling shows that the approval ratings for **Trump** and the Republicans across the board on almost every issue are…
Emma VigelandHostMatt LechPanelist
Bryan VokeyPanelistLook, let me just preface this by saying there's absolutely no reason to feel overconfident about anything at this point because there's no value in it.
There if there is a race that you think we can win in some fashion in beating the Republicans, move on to the next race that you think is close and focus on that one.
I'm looking at you, Chuck Schumer and Florida, but we can talk more about that in a bit.
This is relevant, and I think we'll come back around to this graph maybe later when we talk about Tim Pool's theory of the case of these midterm elections.
But it is very common after a convention to see a move in the polls where a party will get a bump from their convention.
Um, the Republicans tried something different this year, which was to do a midterm, uh, election convention.
I don't know if there's been one in the past and it featured Donald Trump on both nights.
It expanded the Democratic advantage in the generic ballot from seven and a half to nine and a half points.
So Trump will lose.
It didn't work.
Look, let me just preface this by saying there's absolutely no reason to feel overconfident about anything at this point because there's no value in it.
There if there is a race that you think we can win in some fashion in beating the Republicans, move on to the next race that you think is close and focus on that one.
I'm looking at you, Chuck Schumer and Florida, but we can talk more about that in a bit.
This is relevant, and I think we'll come back around to this graph maybe later when we talk about Tim Pool's theory of the case of these midterm elections.
But it is very common after a convention to see a move in the polls where a party will get a bump from their convention.
Um, the Republicans tried something different this year, which was to do a midterm, uh, election convention.
I don't know if there's been one in the past and it featured Donald Trump on both nights.
It expanded the Democratic advantage in the generic ballot from seven and a half to nine and a half points.
So Trump will lose.
It didn't work.
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