What Trump’s approval ratings say about his hold on the GOP

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  Good morning.

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  As Trump continues a campaign to oust Republicans who crossed him,

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  a new poll found some worrying signs for the president's approval rating.

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  It is lower than where Donald Trump was going into 2018. The real question,

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  of course, is will he still be this low months from now?

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  It's Tuesday, May 19th.

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  I'm Gideon Resnick.

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  This is Apple News Today.

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  Today, another Republican that President Trump is hoping to defeat faces voters.

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  Thomas Massey has been the representative for Kentucky's fourth congressional district

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  since 2012. He became a Trump antagonist in Trump's first term and further angered

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  the president this term by pushing for the release of government records on Jeffrey Epstein

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  and criticizing the administration's handling of the war in Iran.

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  The president has made clear his desire to oust Massey,

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  helping to recruit his primary opponent, Ed Galrine, a former Navy SEAL.

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  Trump even went to Massey's district in March and leveled some harsh criticism against him.

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  Massey's a complete and total disaster as a congressman and, frankly, as a human being.

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  And just yesterday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth campaigned for Massey's opponent.

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