Democrats are acting as if Senate control is within their grasp, but John McLaughlin, a longtime pollster for President Donald Trump, says the surveys feeding that confidence are badly skewed.
With less than two weeks until Election Day, McLaughlin warned that the 2026 midterms are extremely close, and that some polls appear to deliberately shortchange Republicans by shrinking their share of the sample. Appearing Friday on Just the News, No Noise, he pointed to a New York poll in which just 22% of respondents were Republican. In the state’s last gubernatorial race, Republicans made up 30% of the people who actually voted.
