When Republican nominee for president Donald Trump started piling up the victories in the primaries, many of his critics warned that if he ended up on the November ballot he would get blown out and take out scores of Republicans running for the House and Senate with him.

Writing in The Week earlier this month, Damon Linker predicted, “Trump isn’t merely going to lose. He’s going to lose in the biggest popular vote landslide in modern presidential history. … It’s not crazy to think he’ll finish with less than 35 percent of the popular vote.”

Sen. Charles Schumer, the former head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, gleefully anticipated doom and gloom for the GOP with Trump as their standard-bearer. “Donald Trump is officially the straitjacket that Senate Republicans won’t be able to get out of,” the New York Democrat said after Trump scored a series of primary wins in March. “After last night’s victories, Donald Trump’s nomination as the Republican presidential nomination seems all but assured, and with it, the end of the Republican Senate majority. Donald Trump won’t make America great again, but he’ll make Republicans the minority again.”

Nobody knows how Trump will do when the votes are tallied in November, but we do know from polling data how Trump is doing right now – and, to the surprise of many inside the Beltway, he’s not doing that bad.

Recent polls show Trump pulling ahead in the battleground states of Ohio, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Colorado and Nevada. Former GOP nominees John McCain and Mitt Romney lost all of these states in 2008 and 2012, with the exception of North Carolina in 2012.

If these numbers hold, Trump is only a state or two away from cobbling together the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House; and there’s fertile ground for more Trump pickups all over the map.

In many purple states where Hillary Clinton is leading, Trump is running ahead of where Romney was in 2012; in Maine, Trump is besting Romney’s numbers by seven points; in Michigan, it’s four points, and in New Mexico and Wisconsin, it’s two points.

To the shock of some, Trump is also doing better among Latinos than Romney did in 2012. A Bloomberg politics “poll decoder” – which is an average of several national surveys – found Clinton ahead of Trump among Hispanics by 38 points. Which seems bad, until you consider that back in 2012, President Obama won them by 44 points.

Trump’s numbers among Latinos in the battleground states are even stronger. In Nevada, President Obama won them in 2012 by a whopping 47-point margin; but now, according to a recent NBC News poll, Clinton is ahead by only 35 points. A Univision poll has Trump running ahead of Romney in Colorado among Latinos as well.

If you’re going just by the numbers, there’s no question that Trump is a stronger general election candidate than was Romney.

The same is true for Republicans running in competitive U.S. races. Democrats recently pulled aggressive advertising campaigns out of Florida and Ohio because the GOP candidates are too far ahead, while extremely vulnerable Republican incumbents running for re-election in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and North Carolina have topped their Democratic opponents in recent surveys. Republicans are now even in line to pick up retiring U.S. Sen. Harry Reid’s seat in Nevada.

Trump isn’t sinking GOP legislative prospects after all.

Now it’s true that anything can, and probably will, happen in the six weeks leading up to the election, but, given all of these polling numbers, we can put to rest the rumor that Trump has been a down-ticket disaster. In fact, the only disaster that we’ve seen so far is the catastrophic collapse of all of the political pundits’ predictions.

John Phillips is a CNN political commentator and can be heard weekdays at 3 p.m. on “The Drive Home with Jillian Barberie and John Phillips” on KABC/AM 790.