Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* While the latest CBS News/YouGov poll found Donald Trump with a 53% approval rating, the latest national survey by the Pew Research Center found the Republican president’s support at 47%. (Click the links for more information on the polls’ methodologies and margins of error.)
* In related news, internal polling from House Majority Forward, which is affiliated with the House Democratic leadership, found that Elon Musk is not popular with most voters, which will likely encourage Democratic officials to target the billionaire in their messaging.
* Late last week, the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling, rejecting a Republican effort to replace the state’s nonpartisan elections director.
* In Virginia, The Associated Press reported that the White House’s aggressive campaign to slash the federal workforce is already starting to affect this year’s gubernatorial race in Virginia, “home to some 145,000 federal employees and many more government contractors.”
* In Michigan’s open U.S. Senate race, the conventional wisdom suggests that both parties will have crowded primary fields, but Trump appears to be focused on one GOP candidate. At a dinner at Mar-a-Lago for Senate Republicans, the president said former Rep. Mike Rogers, who lost a Senate race last year, “might be the one” for the party to nominate next year.
* And in Ohio, with former Lt. Gov. Jon Husted filling a U.S. Senate vacancy, Republican Gov. Mike DeWine was in the market for a new lieutenant governor for the final two years of his term. He chose Jim Tressel, best known as the former Ohio State University football coach. For now, it’s unclear whether Tressel has electoral ambitions of his own for the 2026 election cycle.
