With President Donald Trump at record unpopularity, Republicans are facing an even bleaker midterm political landscape than they did eight years ago, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds.

The study was conducted for CNN via web and telephone on the SSRS Opinion Panel, a nationally representative panel of U.S. adults ages 18 or older recruited using probability-based sampling techniques. SSRS is an independent research company. Surveys were obtained September 16-17, 2026, with a representative sample of n=1,206 respondents. The margin of sampling error for total respondents is +/-3.5 at the 95% confidence level. The design effect is 1.6.