Trump Approval at 32 Percent in Final Reuters/Ipsos Poll as Voters Head to Tuesday's Elections

President Donald Trump's approval rating held near a record low on the eve of Tuesday's congressional elections, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Monday and read in full by this desk. Some 32 percent of respondents said they approved of the job Trump is doing in the White House - unchanged from a week earlier and just above his record-low reading of 31 percent two weeks ago - as a broad swath of the electorate told pollsters their vote would be a way to oppose the president.

On the generic congressional ballot, 46 percent of registered voters said they would pick Democrats and 38 percent said Republicans, an 8-point Democratic advantage that was narrower than the 11-point lead Democrats held in the same poll a week earlier - a tightening Reuters itself flagged. Among independents, 50 percent said their congressional vote was a vote against Trump, compared with 13 percent who said it was a vote for him and 33 percent who said the president was not a factor in their vote.

The poll surveyed 1,765 U.S. adults online over five days and carries a margin of error of 2 percentage points. Reuters notes that generic-ballot polls measure national sentiment, not the state-by-state and district-by-district contests that will actually decide control of the Senate and the House, where Republicans hold structural advantages. Florida voters render their part of the verdict on Tuesday, November 3, with polls open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.