Domenico Montanaro

He tried to rebrand on immigration.

He tried to reset this message of his that he's always focused on, which are these kind of gory anecdotes talking about border security and deporting criminals.

You know, and it's sort of this warning to voters that if Democrats are back in office tomorrow,

They'll let the immigrants back in.

And that's part of the midterm message.

And it's something that Trump believes that he was elected on in the first place.

Remember, there have been more than a couple of times in this first year when he's said that he doesn't think that the economy was the thing that got him elected, that it was immigration and crime, even though the exit polls would tell you something different.

Roughly two-thirds of the more than 1,400 respondents polled say the system of checks and balances in the country just isn't working.

That comes as President Trump has spent the better part of his first year in office trying to consolidate power.

An even higher 78% say they see a serious threat to democracy.

That includes 9 in 10 Democrats, 8 in 10 Independents, and even 61% of Republicans.

Of course, what they see as those threats in many cases is very different.

Other polling has found that Democrats and Independents are concerned about the backsliding of liberal democracy in the country, while many Republicans believe voting systems are not as strong as they should be.

That's an idea that President Trump has pushed to explain away his 2020 presidential election loss

despite evidence to the contrary.

Domenico Montanaro, NPR News, Washington.

Fifty-seven percent of the more than 1,400 people that Marist surveyed say the State of the Union is not strong.

That's a four-point increase from a year ago and includes eight in ten Democrats and two-thirds of independents.

Republicans largely take the opposite view.

With Trump in office, 73% of Republicans say the state of the union is strong.