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President Donald Trump's approval numbers have been frozen for most of the year. The latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll released Wednesday showed 39% of registered voters approving of his job performance; 59% disapproved. But that top line understates the asymmetry: More than half of voters – 53% – strongly disapprove of the job he’s doing, the highest share recorded by Marist across either of his terms in office, and on par with high voter dissatisfaction with Trump in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. For Congressional Republicans, "it's a nationalized election whether they like it or not," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion. With gas prices, the war in Iran and other national issues dominating, he said, "it'd be next to impossible” for a congressional candidate to ignore those and focus only on local issues. “It's not believable enough because [Trump’s] such a dominant force." “These numbers are concerning to Republicans behind the scenes," Republican strategist Melik Abdul said. Abdul wondered whether the president’s luck had run out. “It’s almost like he’s Icarus,” the famous figure from Greek mythology, he said. The question is whether Trump has “gotten a bit too close to the sun this time.” For more from the poll: