Checking In On the True Swing Voters

First Read: “One of the clues we missed about Trump in 2016 was his overperformance among voters who disliked both Trump and Hillary Clinton. These voters made up 18% of voters in our merged NBC/WSJ polls of 2016, and they disproportionately broke for Trump and the GOP on the generic ballot.”

”So how are these kinds of voters breaking now? Well, our latest NBC/WSJ poll finds that Democrats are overperforming among voters who hold negative views of both parties, 55% to 25% (representing 13 percent of the sample).”

”What’s more in our current poll, these voters disproportionately are down on Trump (68% disapprove of his job, versus 52% of all voters), and they are enthusiastic about the upcoming midterms (63% of them have high interest, versus 55% of all voters who say this).”