You ever watch a magician fail so badly that the rabbit jumps out of the hat, bites him, and hops off stage? That’s basically the American Left in 2026. They’ve spent two years screaming from every rooftop, every late-night desk, every California podium — convinced that the louder they yelled, the more the country would love them. Turns out, the country had other plans.
NBC — not exactly a Trump fan club — just dropped a poll that should be framed and hung in the Smithsonian next to other great American disasters. Surveyed 1,000 registered voters. National sample. No skewing excuses. And what did they find?
Donald Trump is more popular than his loudest, most insufferable critics. Every single one of them.
The Scoreboard Nobody on the Left Wants to Read
Trump clocks in at 41 percent positive. That’s the guy they’ve impeached twice, indicted four times, dragged through more courtrooms than a mob lawyer, and declared “finished” approximately nine hundred times.
Stephen Colbert? 35 percent. The man who turned a perfectly good late-night chair into a nightly therapy session for coastal liberals. Thirty-five. That’s not a TV host — that’s a participation trophy with a monologue.
Kamala Harris, currently dusting off her presidential ambitions like she found them in a storage unit, sits at 34 percent. This is the woman who had the second-highest office in the land and still managed to be less memorable than elevator music. Thirty-four percent, Kamala. Even NBC can’t help you now.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez checks in at 31 percent. America’s favorite socialist bartender-turned-Twitter-personality, who hasn’t met a camera she didn’t like or a policy that actually worked — 31 percent. Brutal.
And then there’s Gavin Newsom. Sweet, hair-gelled, French Laundry-dining Gavin. The man who thinks governing California into a tent city qualifies him for the White House. Twenty-seven percent. He’s polling right next to Iran. Iran. The country that chants “Death to America” as a national pastime is in his neighborhood. Let that marinate.
They Built the Resistance. Nobody Came.
Here’s what makes this poll genuinely delicious: these aren’t random figures. These are the people the media machine spent years elevating as the antidote to Trump. Colbert was supposed to be the cultural cudgel. Newsom was supposed to be the handsome alternative. Harris was supposed to be historic. AOC was supposed to be the future of the party.
The future of the party is polling behind ICE. ICE — the agency the Left has spent years demonizing, defunding, and comparing to the Third Reich — sits at 38 percent positive. JD Vance is tied with it. The resistance couldn’t even beat a law enforcement acronym.
Trump didn’t just survive the hate machine. He outlasted it, outpaced it, and apparently out-charmed it — which is saying something for a guy they’ve called every name in the book since 2015.
The One Guy Who Beat Him
To be fair — and Bob is always fair — there is one figure who topped Trump in this poll. Pope Leo XIV, sitting at 42 percent. The leader of the Catholic Church edged out the 47th President of the United States by a single point.
Trump lost to the Pope. I genuinely respect it. That’s not a bad loss. The man who speaks for a billion Catholics worldwide squeaked past the guy who won back the White House against every conceivable headwind. I’ll take that matchup. Most politicians would.
The Left, meanwhile, can’t beat a pontiff or a president. They can’t even beat the concept of border enforcement.
Where This Goes Next
Watch what happens now. Newsom keeps running — he’s too vain to stop — but this poll kneecaps his “I’m the one who can beat Trump” pitch before it ever gets airborne. Harris re-enters the race wearing a different pantsuit and the same word salad. AOC stays loud, stays viral, stays at 31 percent.
And the media? They’ll bury this poll under a pile of whatever fresh outrage they’ve cooked up by Tuesday. Because nothing terrifies the pundit class more than data that confirms what half the country has been saying out loud for two years: the opposition isn’t just losing — they’re unpopular.
Not misunderstood. Not unfairly covered. Unpopular. With their own poll. On their own network.
The resistance called — it wants its focus group back.