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Corruption joins living costs atop MS NOW's voter concerns

Ali Velshi's election-day poll presentation puts Trump's approval at 38 percent, a result he describes as a historic midterm low.

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BREAKING: Historic RECORD-BREAKING LOWS for Trump in first look at voter poll

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0:00Voters in Houston, Scottsdale and Atlanta share their election-day perspectives before Wallace introduces the broadcast.
3:39Velshi introduces the voter poll and presents findings about household finances and inflation.
4:56Living costs and government corruption each matter to roughly nine in ten respondents, with corruption slightly higher.
7:00Trump's approval stands at 38 percent; Velshi describes it as a historic low for a president at midterms.
8:18McCaskill compares the findings with 2018; Heilemann later argues that perceptions of corruption around Trump have worsened.

Living costs dominate the election conversation, but Ali Velshi finds another concern just as widespread in MS NOW's first look at its voter poll: government corruption.

The November 3 edition of Deadline: White House captures the election before the results, with Nicolle Wallace moving from voter interviews in Texas, Arizona and Georgia to Velshi's presentation at the Big Board. Seen after the midterms, it offers a snapshot of what respondents said was driving their choices, rather than a retrospective explanation of who won.

Roughly nine in ten respondents identified each of those issues as a crucial or major voting factor. Corruption registered slightly higher than the cost of living. The two concerns were not mutually exclusive: voters could attach importance to both.

The finding behind the upload's emphatic title arrives about seven minutes in. Velshi reports that 38 percent approve of Donald Trump's performance and calls it "an historic low for a president in a midterm." That is the specific comparison he makes, not a claim about every presidential approval poll ever conducted.

Claire McCaskill then contrasts the findings with the 2018 midterms and argues that concerns about officials enriching themselves have gained political force. John Heilemann follows with observations from Iowa and Texas, offering his interpretation of why perceptions of corruption around Trump have worsened.

Wallace's segment thus moves from voters' stated priorities to the panel's political reading of them, with Velshi's poll presentation supplying the distinction between the two.

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Channel: MS NOW
Subscribers: 10,100,000 ▲ 100,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 190,204,919
Channel views, pace per day: 24,782,256 (on a normal day: 20,488,636)
Video published: November 3, 2026
Video views so far: 1,351,856 (5 days online)
Video views, pace per day: 4,933 (on a normal day: 385,824)

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The election-day upload has drawn more than a million views. Its viewing figures are context here; the story is the voter poll and the panel's interpretation.

subscribers

10,100,000

▲ 100,000 in the last 7 days

total views

21,963,810,000

views per day

24,782,256

typical day: 20,488,636

the video

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1,351,856

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