Leaker: New Fox News poll is a 'death sentence' for MAGA

US President Donald Trump reacts on stage at the Curtis D. Menard Memorial Sports Center in Wasilla, Alaska, US, October 13, 2026. REUTERS/Evan Vucci

On Friday, a whistleblower from President Donald Trump’s first administration laid out why the latest poll numbers amount to a “death sentence” for MAGA. According to Miles Taylor – who served as Deputy Chief of Staff in Homeland Security and famously leaked White House secrets – a new survey by Fox News proves that Americans are fed up with Trump and MAGA corruption once and for all.

As Taylor writes, “A Fox News poll released this week asked registered voters what worries them most heading into the midterms. The winner was not affordability or the economy, which have dominated every election cycle in living memory. It was corruption in government. A whopping 88 percent of voters said they were extremely or very concerned about it. It beat high gas and grocery prices. It beat healthcare. It beat everything! In the same survey, Trump’s approval sank to 36 percent, the lowest Fox has ever recorded for him. In other polls, it’s dipped into the 20s.” What’s more, Taylor notes that on the previous day, an AP-NORC survey found that most Americans believe Trump is profiting from the presidency either illegally or unethically, and that he’s more focused on building his own wealth than on helping everyday people. On top of that, Taylor points to a Gallup poll that reported that 89 percent of Americans now believe corruption is widespread in their government. That's the highest Gallup has ever measured, and it puts the U.S. at the very bottom of the developed world – out of 38 countries – when it comes to perceived corruption.

According to Taylor, “These are history-making developments.” Pollsters have been asking Americans what worries them most for nearly 100 years, and though there have been plenty of corruption scandals, they have never outranked economic concerns – not even after Watergate, when voters still ranked the economy and inflation ahead of Nixon’s crimes. This has changed, writes Taylor, because “Trump has made corruption literally impossible to ignore. He turned it from a background story that’s always playing out in Washington into basically the lead story of every news cycle for the past 18 months. What’s worse, the high prices people are experiencing at the grocery and at the pump are in no small part because of Trump’s corruption.”

Taylor asserts that the president’s corruption will have dire repercussions for the country, but the consequences are outright existential for Trump’s political following. “These latest polling numbers are a death sentence for MAGA as a governing movement,” writes Taylor. “To a certain extent, affordability is an issue a president can blame on someone else, and this one certainly tries. He points at the Fed, at Biden, at foreigners, etc. But corruption is personal. It’s a profound statement on the character of the man in charge and of our leaders writ large. And this week, it became abundantly clear that voters have rendered their judgment.”

In Taylor’s estimation, there is nothing Trump can do about it in the three short weeks before the midterms. As he concludes, “When nine-in-ten Americans say the government is corrupt and only one-in-ten say the president is looking out for them, the little guy, there’s no earthly messaging strategy that can save the party in power. The Republicans running with Trump’s name on their ballots are running on the most radioactive issue in modern American political history because they have slavishly covered for his corruption or outright enabled it. Trump spent more than a decade telling Americans the system was rigged. He finally convinced them. What he didn’t tell them is that he would be the one rigging it. Now they’ve noticed.”

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