Republicans are facing a difficult political environment ahead of November’s midterm elections , driven in large part by President Donald Trump’s historically low approval ratings .

With the pivotal elections approaching, Trump’s approval rating dropped to 30 percent earlier this month, according to polling from the Pew Research Center . The slump marks the lowest point of his second term and represents the lowest level any sitting president has reached heading into the midterms since Harry Truman in 1946, as reported by TIME .

“This is historically low approval ratings for a president,” Peter Enns, a professor in the department of government at Cornell University and co-founder of the survey research company Verasight, told TIME .

Data indicates that much of the public discontent with the administration stems from economic performance. An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released earlier this month found that only 26 percent of U.S.…