The results of gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey this November could be strong indicators of whether Democrats will be able to take back the House in the midterm elections and one polling expert thinks its looking likely.CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten outlined how the Democratic candidates in both states are currently leading by significant margins, with New Jerseys Mikie Sherrill showing an 89% chance of victory and Virginias Abigail Spanberger showing a 94% chance. Related Tariff support plummets as prices rise: Americans have gotten a taste & they spit it right out Insights for the LGBTQ+ community Subscribe to our briefing for insights into how politics impacts the LGBTQ+ community and more. Subscribe to our Newsletter today Enten said that these margins should be a flashing red siren warning sign for Republicans, with data showing that since 1989, when the same party wins in both New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races, that party also wins the House 6 out of 7 times. Enten also spoke about other elections taking place around the country and said that signal after signal after signal shows that when people are voting, Democrats are doing well. Enten made similar predictions for the Democrats in June in response to the GOPs so-called Big Beautiful Bill, which he showed polled disastrously among both Democrats and Republicans. He said if Congress passed it (which it did), the Democrats should expect the 2026 midterms to be a big beautiful night.Enten has also been vocal about the dismal approval ratings of the president himself, saying in July that he was at a term-two low. His net approval rating has dropped nearly 20 points in the aggregate since the beginning of his presidency, Enten explained. The American people do not like what theyre seeing.[Hes] minus-five points on immigration his best issue, hes underwater. How about the economy? That was what he was elected for minus-14 points. How about foreign policy? Minus-14 points. How about trade and those tariff wars? Minus-15 points. And, of course, the Epstein case, thelowestof the bunch, minus-37 points, 37 points below water.He also pointed out that at this point in a presidency, the average president since 1953 has enjoyed a plus 27 net approval rating.He has the second-worst net approval rating at this point. He is underwater on all the major issues of the day. The bottom line is, six months into this administration, I think that most Americans would apply the word or words disaster, terrible, awful, horrible. I think that is the way that the American people would see it at this particular point.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.