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Kornacki puts Democrats' poll lead beside a tougher Senate map

NBC News' final pre-midterm poll favors Democrats nationally, but their Senate path runs through Republican-held seats in Trump country.

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Steve Kornacki breaks down final NBC News poll before midterm elections

Steve Kornacki moves from a favorable national poll for Democrats to a less straightforward question: where would the Senate seats come from?

At the big board with Hallie Jackson, NBC News' analyst shows Democrats holding a seven-point advantage on the question of which party should control Congress. He places that lead alongside the network's final polls before the previous two midterms: a tie before 2022 and a narrower Democratic advantage before 2018.

President Trump's approval rating is 40 percent in the poll, below where he stood before his first midterm. "On paper, by this number, Trump enters his second midterm in worse shape than in his first midterm," Kornacki says.

Then comes the map. Democrats need a net gain of four Senate seats, while also defending states including Minnesota and Michigan that Republicans are targeting. A national polling advantage is not the same thing as securing those individual contests. As Kornacki puts it: "The Democratic path to a majority, if it exists, goes through Trump country."

The brief breakdown has drawn about 436,000 views, an unusually large early audience for an NBC News Short. The network's separate report hearing from Michigan voters after Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers has also drawn an unusually fast start. That report hears from voters planning to support Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in one of the states Kornacki highlights.

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The facts

Channel: NBC News
Subscribers: 12,200,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 28,872,376
Channel views, pace per day: 3,019,413 (on a normal day: 4,976,227)
Video published: November 2, 2026
Video views so far: 436,104 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 551,805

The numbers

Kornacki's poll breakdown is drawing views far faster than NBC News' usual Short. Its comment section is also substantially busier than a typical first day.

the video's first day

usual first day here

10,404

this video

551,805

subscribers

12,200,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

10,706,356,160

views per day

3,019,413

typical day: 4,976,227

the video

views

436,104

likes

1,813

comments

506

days online

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

15,500,000

13,800,000

12,700,000

12,200,000

10,000,000

9,390,000

As of November 3, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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