- State: Washington - Approval rating: 41% Grassley oversaw the controversial confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court and made divisive statements suggesting the workload of the Senate Judiciary Committee was too much for women. Her congressional office gained attention when one of her interns was caught yelling an expletive at President Donald Trump. - Approval rating: 58% Jon Tester (+33 PARS) and Sherrod Brown (+20 PARS), who have managed to win multiple elections despite hailing from red states. - Disapproval rating: 31% - State: New Hampshire Manchins unpopularity at home is only eclipsed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the ubiquitous holder of the title of Americas most unpopular senator who clocked a 64% disapproval rating in the fourth quarter of 2022. The global tech company distributed 472,802 surveys to registered U.S. voters across all 50 states from Jan. 1 to March 31, 2019 (data last updated April 2019), in order to determine approval ratings of all current 100 United States senators. - State: Indiana During his time as a United States attorney, Jones prosecuted two members of the Ku Klux Klan for the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. Surveys conducted Oct. 1-Dec. 31, 2022, among Democratic voters in each state, with margins of error of +/-1 to 7 percentage points. Known as a conservative Democrat while in the House of Representatives, Richard Shelby won a narrow race for the Senate in 1986. Never before has the public had so much unfiltered access to the details of a senator's leadership, from off-the-cuff comments to their personal lives. - Party: Republican. Trump has feuded with Blumenthal over the latter's claims that he served in Vietnam. Toward the bottom of the list are five governors running for reelection whose approval ratings dont look as strong as they seem after taking partisan lean into account. - State: Washington On Tuesday after leading Senate Republicans in passing the Democrat bill, Mitch McConnell endorsed Kevin McCarthy for Speaker of the House. - Never heard of: 22% Senate // Wikimedia Commons, Rebecca Hammel/ U.S. Senate // Wikimedia Commons, United States Congress // Wikimedia Commons, Office of Senator Sherrod Brown // Wikimedia Commons, U.S. Customs and Border Protection // Flickr, Joy Holder/U.S. - Approval rating: 51% Bob Casey Jr., son of former Pennsylvania Gov. - Approval rating: 50% Sen. Amy Klobuchar is now known around the country after launching her 2020 bid for the presidency. and more. - Party: Republican. Now into his 80s, Roberts will not run for an additional term. He was elected to the Senate in 2010. - Party: Republican. - Party: Democrat. He was also the running mate to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, with the pair losing to the Donald Trump-Mike Pence ticket in the electoral college. Sen. Roger Wicker was appointed to the Senate to replace Trent Lott after his resignation. unsanitary and food-deprived conditions at facilities holding migrant children, one of the wealthiest senators currently serving, warned about the growing tensions between Iran and the United States, an aggressive and supposedly abusive environment as a boss, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/?ref=chooser-v1. If the same state had a Republican governor with the same approval rating, his PARS would be -5 (2-7 = -5). - Disapproval rating: 22% - Disapproval rating: 40% - State: Massachusetts - Never heard of: 31% If he chooses to seek re-election, however, he is unlikely to face a serious primary challenge, given his unimpeachable record of victories in a state that has continually trended more Republican. Ohio and Pennsylvania voters, too, are more likely than not to give positive marks to Democratic Sens. - Disapproval rating: 27% - Disapproval rating: 33% In cases of a tie, the senator with the lower never heard of rating takes the lower rank. - Approval rating: 40% Most recently, he displayed an image of the drowned bodies of a Salvadoran father and daughter who were attempting to reach the United States seeking asylum. This version of partisan lean, meant to be used for congressional and gubernatorial elections, is calculated as 50 percent the state or districts lean relative to the nation in the most recent presidential election, 25 percent its relative lean in the second-most-recent presidential election and 25 percent a custom state-legislative lean. He previously served three terms in the House of Representatives and was one of many legislators working with the Obama Administration to gain debt forgiveness for Chrysler during the Great Recession. April 26, 2022. Graham is up for reelection in 2020. - State: California But less than two years out from a potential 2024 re-election campaign, surveys conducted after she announced her decision to become an independent reveal a coalitional shift thats made her more popular with Arizonas unaffiliated and Republican voters but hastened her descent with the states Democrats. - Disapproval rating: 35% And then theres Montana, a state with a not-so-distant bipartisan voting history that has swung further to the right in each presidential contest since 2012. Dan McKees mediocre +2 net approval rating, the fact that he is running for the office for the first time (he became governor only because he was the lieutenant governor when the old governor resigned), the pro-Republican national mood and Rhode Islands elasticity. - Approval rating: 35% Hyde-Smith, McConnell, Moran, Murkowski, Portman, Romney, Rounds, Rubio, Shelby, Thune, Tuberville, Wicker Young. former Army general as her Republican challenger. In doing so, youre agreeing to the below guidelines. - Never heard of: 24% - Party: Independent - Disapproval rating: 29% Sen. Patty Murray became Washington's first woman senator when she was elected to the position in 1992. - Never heard of: 33% - Approval rating: 40% 2022 Governors Elections (39) - Never heard of: 14% - Disapproval rating: 29% Electability in a general election is not a major concern for the Senates Republican incumbents next year given that most competitive contests fall in territory occupied by incumbent Democrats. Due to his opposition on legislation that supports LGBTQ+ rights, the Human Rights Campaign included Lankford in their Congressional Hall of Shame., - Approval rating: 41% Bernie Sanders is the most popular senator in the U.S. for 2020, according to the survey. Having represented the state of Vermont in the U.S. House from 1991-2007 and U.S. Senate from 2007-present, Sanders has the highest total approval rating of any senator at 64% total. - Never heard of: 28% Based on Morning Consults approval ratings1 for every senator and governor in the country (now updated for the first quarter of 2022), PARS and PARG attempt to measure how much stronger (or weaker) a politician is than a generic (or, to use a term from baseball, replacement-level) candidate from their party would be. Over the same time period, her approval rating spiked among independents (from 29% to 42%) and Republicans (from 38% to 43%), leaving her with mixed reviews among those groups. In Virginia, the past couple years have taken a bit of a toll on Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, though voters there are more likely to approve than disapprove, 43% to 39%, of his job performance. - Never heard of: 28% - Approval rating: 46% Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is deeply unpopular among his own constituents, according to a new poll released Monday. As the most senior member of the Republican delegation to Congress, Chuck Grassley is the president pro tempore of the Senatea mostly ceremonial position, but one that puts Grassley in the presidential line of succession. - State: Tennessee - Disapproval rating: 33% Despite being long-tenured on Congress, Bob Menendez of New Jersey went through some legal trouble in 2015 when he was indicted for corruption charges. Sen. Bernie Sanders significantly raised his national profile as the primary rival to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary for the presidency. She is currently one of the top-tier Democratic candidates for president. He was one of the 11 Republican senators to vote against Trump's intent to lift sanctions against Russian companies. Then-Lt. Gov. - State: Alaska The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip are based on CNNs reporting and fundraising data, as well as historical data about how states and candidates have - Party: Republican. - Approval rating: 52% - Approval rating: 46% - Party: Republican. That suggests she has a bit of crossover appeal, but that her fate is still closely tied to partisanship. - Never heard of: 15% - Never heard of: 23% - State: Colorado - Party: Democrat. - State: Missouri - Disapproval rating: 34% - Never heard of: 34% - Never heard of: 31% - State: Texas Her role in the impeachment proceedings has earned Susan Collins (R-ME) the title of most unpopular senator. Democratic Sen. Jon Tester has not yet said whether hell run next year, but with a 60% approval rating, he is the most popular incumbent who would face a tough 2024 contest if he decides to mount another campaign. - Disapproval rating: 24% Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin had not held office prior to his election to the Senate, being a CEO for a plastics and manufacturing company beforehand. Just one-third of Kentuckians, 33%, approve of McConnell's job performance, while 60% disapprove. - Party: Republican. Cory Gardner narrowly defeated the Democratic incumbent in 2014 to become senator there, and today is the only Republican serving Colorado in a statewide elected office. Merkley received attention for filming his trip to an immigrant detention center, making a point that he was denied entry from viewing the conditions inside. For instance, New Hampshire is an evenly divided state, but Gov. Among Republicans, 43 percent disapprove and 42 percent approve. In June he was the sole senator from Missouri or Kansas to support blocking President Donald Trump from selling munitions to Saudi Arabia. - Disapproval rating: 43% On the flip side, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson has one of the worst PARS scores (-18); despite his home state of Wisconsin having an R+4 partisan lean, his net approval rating is -14 percentage points. - Never heard of: 28% At this time last month, voters preferred Republicans by 2.2 points (44.7 percent to 42.5 percent). - Never heard of: 23% - Party: Republican. Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay woman to serve in Congress when she was elected in 2012. - Party: Democrat. - Party: Democrat. - Approval rating: 44% - Never heard of: 18% In 2019, Ernst finally joined his colleagues in condemning King. Sen. Angus King was a popular governor before being elected to the Senate in 2012. - State: Louisiana - Approval rating: 49% Sen. Deb Fischer served on the unicameral and nonpartisan Nebraska Legislature before her election to the Senate. He would be up for a third term in 2020, but Udall chose not to seek reelection. These days, the 100 senators comprising the upper house of the United States Congress are arguably under more scrutiny by American citizens and the press since the nation's founding. Most popular and unpopular senators are ranked by the largest approval and disapproval shares, respectively. - Disapproval rating: 23% McSally opened up during a Senate hearing about being raped by a superior officer during her time in the Air Force. This also offers a glimmer of hope to Democrats who face the very real prospect of losing control of the Senate in 2022, as this falls midterm elections are shaping up well for Republicans. - Disapproval rating: 37% - Disapproval rating: 30% storytelling. Stacker believes in making the worlds data more accessible through Sen. Mazie Hirono is a Japanese-born senator representing the state of Hawaii. - Disapproval rating: 36% Neither came to pass. Ernst received controversy and criticism over her support of Iowa Congressman Steve King, who has been rebuked by several of his peers recently due to perceived racist rhetoric. Charlie Crist. Before becoming senator in 2015, Dan Sullivan was long-involved in Alaskan politics and served in Washington D.C. under the Bush Administration. Their actions, words, and legislative records matter more and can represent serious advantages or disadvantages to them in an election yearthe next of which will take place in 2020. Sen. Richard Blumenthal is currently the third wealthiest senator in Congress. - Party: Democrat. Hawley introduced legislation aiming to fight against perceived online bias against Republicans from tech companies, receiving much criticism and ridicule. Roy Moore is returning to the campaign trail in the hopes of unseating Jones; that playing field is already crowded with five other contenders as of June 26. Keep reading to find out how your state senators are seen through the public eye. - Party: Republican. During his service, Moran acted as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, leading the Republican Party to a net gain of seats that led to the Senate's majority after the 2014 elections. - Never heard of: 29% - State: New Mexico - Disapproval rating: 39% If the same state had a Republican senator with the same approval rating, his PARS would be -5 (2-7 = -5). Feinstein in February was caught on camera lecturing children about her perspectives on the Green New Deal, saying, There's no way to pay for it., - Approval rating: 43% Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan is somewhere in the middle, with a PARG of +6. But among Democrats in her state, whose national apparatus helped her flip a seat in the 2018 midterm elections, Sinemas disapproval rating climbed 18 percentage points, to 59%. - Approval rating: 43% Texas Sen. 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