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Republicans worried about preserving their House or Senate majorities in November are wishing for the miracle of low gas prices, but recent surveys show they needn\u2019t bother. Their goose is already cooked, regardless of where fuel prices go.<\/p>\n

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When you\u2019re down this far it\u2019s nearly impossible to pull out of the dive, and after several new polls dropped this week, President Donald Trump hit the worst approval rating of his presidency. He also whacked a new low two days in a row with a FiftyPlusOne approval of 36 percent, amounting to a net score of \u221225.<\/p>\n

This is a historically bad rating for a president at this point in his term \u2014 worse than Biden\u2019s at this point in 2022, and worse than Trump\u2019s in his first term. It\u2019s so bad now, that analyst G. Elliot Morris says falling gas prices won\u2019t rescue Trump \u2014 or the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

\u201cCheaper gas didn\u2019t buy him much, if anything at all,\u201d said Morris, seeing Trump\u2019s popularity fail to lift out of the doldrums despite a brief drop in gas prices this summer.<\/p>\n

Generally, a president\u2019s approval drops as gas prices go up. Prices spiked from $3 to $4.50 on average this spring thanks to Trump\u2019s entirely voluntary war on Iran. It dropped to an average of $3.78 in early July when Trump and his media puffed up an Iran \u201cceasefire.\u201d But national averages jumped back to $4.10 a gallon when that ceasefire evaporated.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a few weeks and the numbers are in, and what struck analysts was how low Trump\u2019s approval remained even as he enjoyed a premature price dip before his not-at-all-ceasefire blew up.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile gas and approval had been closely linked from March through May, when Trump\u2019s approval fell, the June gas price ebbing did not result in a commensurate rise in approval for Trump,\u201d observed Morris. \u201cWhile gas prices recovered almost a dollar from peak, Trump\u2019s approval ticked up a few points. And then slides right back down to where it started.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump and the voters who put him back in the White House in the last election never forgave Joe Biden for high inflation, even after it cooled. Trump personally hammered Biden\u2019s progress, despite U.S. prices steadily being on the decrease up until November, when pessimistic voters removed the Democrat in favor of Trump\u2019s promises.<\/p>\n

If this lingering hard feelings looks familiar, it should, said Morris \u2014 because Trump is now on the bad end of them.<\/p>\n

Voters in 2024 were actually reacting to excess prices<\/em>, not the rate<\/em> of inflation, said Morris. When inflation \u201ccools,\u201d prices don\u2019t fall \u2014 they just rise more slowly. <\/p>\n

\u201cPeople loathe inflation precisely because they experience it as a permanent cut to their buying power, not a temporary rate that ticks up and down,\u201d said Morris. \u201c\u2026 people tend to form their impressions of the president\u2019s handling of the economy and hold onto it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republicans are counting on cheap gas to bail them out this November, said Morris, but the evidence from his presidency \u2014 and Joe Biden\u2019s \u2014 suggests Americans\u2019 evaluations of Trump and his Republican Party are already baked in.<\/p>\n

All that\u2019s left now is for Trump to ride his crashing plane down to where it\u2019s headed.<\/p>\n

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Republicans worried about preserving their House or Senate majorities in November are wishing for the miracle of low gas prices, but recent surveys show they needn\u2019t bother. 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