Domenico Montanaro

A Quinnipiac poll found that 57% disapprove of the way that ICE is enforcing immigration laws.

53% said that they don't think that the shooting was justified, while only 35% say that it was.

And this has become the real problem for Trump on something that had been an advantage with immigration.

You know, people may be in favor of deporting criminals who are in the country illegally, but they've also been saying for months that they see this administration's approach as going too far or acting too harshly when it comes to deportations.

And that's been dragging down Trump's numbers overall on immigration.

Republicans' control of the House is hanging on by just a really very thin thread here.

2025 electorally was really not good for the GOP.

They saw big losses in special elections and in those November off-year elections.

There have been a record number of congressional retirements.

Trump's approval rating is at or near the lowest point of his second term.

And all of those are signs of a potential blue wave.

In Piers Domenico Montanaro reporting.

Seventy percent of people say the areas they live in are no longer affordable for average families.

That's up 25 points from just this summer.

Prices are the top concern for 45 percent of respondents.

nothing else comes close.

Housing is second at 18 percent, and tariffs are behind that.

Six in 10 say the economy is not working well for them personally, and there were big divides by race, age, income, education, and gender.

Three-quarters of those who are Black and two-thirds of Latinos say the economy isn't working for them, compared to 56 percent of white respondents who say the same thing.

Domenico Montanaro, NPR News, Washington.