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Republicans Can't Buy Back a Broken Mandate

I've seen a lot of MAGA pump accounts hyping the eye-popping sums that Republicans have been spending in the final weeks to save their congressional majority.

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The Honest Poll Added to RealClearPolitics Trump Approval Polling Table

The Honest Poll announced today that its national survey on President Trump's job approval is now listed in the RealClearPolitics polling table, joining surveys from Morning Consult, Rasmussen Reports, the Financial Times, The Economist/YouGov, Reuters/Ipsos, CBS News, Pew Research and others.

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Trump Took Over the Republican Party. Did the Republican Party Take Over Trump?

My daily tracking of the 2024 race showed Trump with a pretty safe roughly two-point national popular-vote lead for most of the election season. But with the pitfalls of state polling, and an increasingly complicated relationship between the national House vote and actual seat gains, the Republican trifecta still hit many people as a surprise.

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The Honest Poll Joins The New York Times and Decision Desk HQ Polling Averages

Ocean Grove, NJ – September 21, 2026 The Honest Poll, the independent polling and media venture founded by Mark Mitchell, former Director of Polling at Rasmussen Reports, has been added over the past two weeks to the national polling averages maintained by The New York Times and Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ).

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Mark Mitchell Launches The Honest Poll: Independent Polling Without Agendas or Compromise

Ocean Grove, NJ – July 18, 2026 – Mark Mitchell, longtime Director of Polling at Rasmussen Reports, today announced the launch of The Honest Polling Company, a new independent polling and media company dedicated to delivering transparent, unbiased public opinion research directly to the American people.