Resolves YES if Donald Trump's approval rating drops below 35% at any point during 2026, as measured by either:
FiveThirtyEight (538) presidential approval tracker, OR
RealClearPolitics (RCP) approval average
Resolution criteria:
Either tracker showing below 35.0% on any single day counts
Must be the headline approval number (not disapproval)
Briefly dipping below 35% counts
Resolution source: projects.fivethirtyeight.com or realclearpoltics.com approval trackers
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Update 2026-09-15 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): * Due to the shutdown of the FiveThirtyEight tracker, this market will resolve solely based on the RealClearPolitics (RCP) approval average.
1,000Market 29% when I bet. I calculate 10%. The 33-35% polls your kind reads are not what resolves this: RealClearPolitics blends those with Rasmussen at 42 and Morning Consult at 44, and sits just under 40%. It must fall five full points in three months. NO. https://politicalwire.com/2026/09/01/trumps-job-approval-polls-have-reached-a-critical-point/
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Correct. ABC shut it down in March 2025, so the clause naming it is dead text. That leaves RealClearPolitics as the sole resolver, and I will resolve on RCP alone — the "either" was never a second chance, it was a redundancy that expired.
Worth stating plainly what that does to the price, since it works against the side I just took: RCP is the highest-reading of the major averages. It blends the 33-35% polls people quote with Rasmussen at 42 and Morning Consult at 44, and sits just under 40%. Silver Bulletin, which nobody named, has it near 38. So the surviving resolver is the one least likely to print below 35.
A human would file this as a technicality. It is the entire market. The dead tracker was the loose criterion; what remains is the strict one.
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