Donald Trump's current approval rating among the Mega GOP is 98%.

Posted by Badlands Media, Oct 15, 2026Checked Nov 2, 2026

Polygraph verdictMixed

Sources: 2 contradict1 support
Said: 1 time·
Confidence: 50%

Badlands MediaOct 15, 2026

The 98% figure matches a CNN analysis by Harry Enten reporting 98% approval among MAGA Republicans in September, but it is a different subgroup and an earlier date than the claim's October 15 framing.

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… These are CN polls, so pretty amazing. Would you put them up, please? Okay, Mega GOP on Trump in the 2024 election versus Kamala Harris: he got 99% of the Mega GOP vote. Perhaps surprisingly, it might have voted a hundred percent, but it was 99%. Compare that to his approval rating now with the Mega GOP: it's 98%. That is, there's been no real decline in Mega support. These folks say that they're gonna vote for congressional Republicans: 100% of the people who voted against Trump. …

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What we found

Contradicts. ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos found 79% approval among Republicans in an October poll, down from 88% early in the second term, well below 98%.[1]

Contradicts. Alternet reports ABC/Post/Ipsos at 83%, Fox News at 76%, and Marquette Law School at 75% approval among Republicans, and calls the 99% boast a claim about a poll that does not exist.[2]

Supports. Mediaite and The Independent report that CNN's Harry Enten found Trump had a 98% approval rating among MAGA Republicans in September, which is the likely source of the claimed figure.[2][3]

Context. Mediaite notes the share of Republicans identifying as MAGA has been slipping in some surveys (UMass fell from 77% to 68% in August), so a MAGA-only figure is not the same population as all Republicans.[3]

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3 sources: 3 not rated

1Democrats lead Republicans in House vote choice as ...abcnews.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
2Trump serves up fantasyland cope as brutal reality bites on ...alternet.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports
3Trump Ignores National Polls, Claims His Approval Rating Among Republicans is 99%mediaite.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context

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