Carville Reveals Trump’s Deepening Personal Disaster

YouTube President Donald Trump is losing his grip on the Republican Party, Democratic strategist James Carville says, as new polling shows GOP support for the president falling sharply from the highs of his second term.

“I think the most undercovered story in American politics today is Trump’s Republican number.

And it’s falling, it’s falling quickly,” Carville said on the latest episode of the Politics War Room podcast.

“I think it’s coming in about 80 now in most polls, which is significantly lower than 95.” The latest YouGov/Economist survey found 79 percent of Republicans approve of Trump’s performance, down from 94 percent in the first poll of his second term.

A July ActiVote poll similarly found 79 percent approval among Republicans, compared with 86 percent in January 2025.

Carville argued the decline goes beyond Trump’s approval rating, suggesting Republicans are increasingly tuning him out.

“It’s so hard after being so obsessed with Trump for so long for the last 10 years; it’s just been Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump—the country is starting to turn away from him,” he said.

“Sure, his polling numbers are down.

But he’s just becoming less relevant in people’s minds,” Carville continued.

“And I think that applies to Republican primary voters in South Carolina.

I think every day his endorsement loses a tenth of a point’s influence.” White House spokesperson Davis Ingle responded by calling Carville “a stone-cold loser who suffers from a severe and incurable disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome,” which he said “has completely rotted his peanut-sized brain.” Trump’s standing has steadily deteriorated since he launched his war in Iran without congressional authorization in February.

The conflict has been historically unpopular.

Support has stayed below 40 percent since the U.S. and Israel began strikes on February 28—well below the early backing for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Polls show that is because many Americans remain unconvinced that the war has a clear purpose and fear it could become another open-ended conflict.