New polls released Wednesday from The New York Times and CNN found President Donald Trump’s approval rating hitting record lows just weeks before the midterm elections, a sign GOP efforts to rescue the party’s congressional majorities are faltering at best.

Just 36% of likely voters approved of Trump’s performance in the Times’ poll, with 59% disapproving. The CNN survey had Trump’s approval rating at 32% among likely voters, with a full two-thirds of likely voters disapproving of his job performance.

The polls, released less than two weeks before the midterm elections, show a public deeply angry with the president’s handling of gas prices, the Iran war and the economy more broadly and ready to reward his political opponents. CNN’s survey gives Democrats a 10-percentage-point edge on the generic ballot for Congress, while the Times’ poll gives them an 11-point edge.

While the political environment for Republicans has been poisonous for at least a year, the surveys indicate the GOP’s well-funded attempts to fire up its base and persuade swing voters to stick with the party have had little impact, with Democrats only increasing their advantages since Labor Day. The polls should give the party hope it can win even in places where Republicans have long dominated.

Democrats still have significant obstacles: Many of the most heavily contested races, especially for the U.S. Senate, are in deeply Republican territory and the party’s brand issues are far from solved, even if voters now generally consider it a better option than the GOP on most major issues.

The Times’ poll found a 51% majority of likely voters considered the nation’s economy to be “poor,” with just 3% rating it to be “excellent” — a startling rejection of Trump’s repeated insistence the country is in a “Golden Age” under his leadership. A whopping 64% of the electorate disapproved of how Trump is handling the economy, an issue where voters have long credited the billionaire real estate developer with expertise.

Voters in the Times survey gave Democrats an 8-point edge on the economy, a 4-point edge on immigration, a 15-point edge on the cost of living, a 10-point edge on handling foreign wars, an 11-point edge on dealing with artificial intelligence, an 11-point edge on dealing with corruption, a 14-point edge on gas prices and a whopping 20-point edge on health care. Voters are also now more likely to call Democrats the “party of the working class” by a 13-point margin.

This has led to the shattering of the coalition Trump won with in 2024. Latino voters now favor Democrats on the generic ballot by a whopping 30 percentage points, with 61% of them strongly disapproving of Trump’s job performance. Among the young voters with whom Trump made major gains, he’s even less popular: 71% of voters ages 18-29 strongly disapprove of Trump’s job performance, and they plan to vote for Democratic congressional candidates, 68% to 24%.

The CNN poll, however, indicates lingering voter skepticism about whether Democrats can actually improve Washington: While 41% of adults said the country would be better off if Democrats won control of Congress, 37% said the country would be worse off and 22% said it would not make a difference.

Both polls follow a Reuters/Ipsos poll released earlier this week that also found Trump’s approval rating at a record low.

The Times and Siena College surveyed 3,494 voters Oct. 12-19. The poll’s margin of error is plus or minus 1.9 percentage points. CNN and SSRS conducted their poll Oct. 15-18 among 1,701 adults and 1,206 registered voters. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.3 percentage points among registered voters.

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