Trump still more popular than vulnerable senators in West Virginia, Missouri.

Bernie Sanders is still on top, with 63% of Vermonters approving.

Mitch McConnell lags again, underwater by 26 points.

While many of the vulnerable Senate Democrats on the ballot in November have seen their popularity decline since the beginning of 2017, most of them remain more popular in their states than President Donald Trump. The latest edition of Morning Consult’s Senator Approval Rankings — based on surveys with more than 330,000 registered voters from April 1 through June 30 — shows modest drops in net approval over the second quarter for three Democrats running for re-election in states Trump won during 2016: Sens. Jon Tester of Montana (-9 points), who has the support of half of the voters in the state, and Bill Nelson of Florida and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota (both -8 points), who were each backed by 44 percent of voters in their states. But that trio, along with five other Senate Democrats running in a Trump-won state this fall, still sport higher net approval ratings than the president. That’s a positive development ahead of a midterm election cycle, which often serves as a referendum on the president and benefits out-party members running for re-election. The last time an incumbent from the party not in control of the White House lost re-election was in 2002, when former Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) ousted Democrat Max Cleland.

Trump has a better net approval than a Democratic incumbent in just two of the states he won during the 2016 election, Missouri and West Virginia. In the Show Me State, Trump’s net approval is 6 points higher than Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill’s. The two-term incumbent is 1 point ahead of her opponent, state Attorney General Josh Hawley, according to an average of polls compiled by RealClearPolitics as of July 24. And in the Mountaineer State, Trump has a 20-point edge in popularity over Sen. Joe Manchin, the most conservative member of the Senate Democratic Caucus; however, Manchin leads his challenger, state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey by 7 points on average, according to RealClearPolitics as of July 24. Sen. Dean Heller, the lone Republican incumbent running for re-election in a state carried by 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, remains 3 points underwater and saw no change in sentiment among Nevadans since the first quarter.

Heavy lies the crown Much is made of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s lack of popularity in his home state of Kentucky. He is consistently the least-popular member of the chamber, finishing last in every edition of the 100-deep list since its inception in late 2015. (In the latest survey, 56 percent of Kentuckians disapproved of his job performance.) But the 115th Congress has also proved tough jousting for McConnell’s Democratic counterpart, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York. Voter sentiment toward the Brooklyn-born leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus has grown bearish since the first quarter of 2017, when 63 percent of New Yorkers approved of his job performance and 27 percent disapproved. In the newest survey, half of respondents said they approved of Schumer, compared with 34 percent who didn’t. That’s a net 20-point swing since Republicans came into power in the White House, and mirrors McConnell’s own 23-point slide during the same time frame.

GOP’s top Trump critics still unpopular Sens. Jeff Flake of Arizona and Bob Corker of Tennessee, two Republican senators who opted to retire at the end of the year after quarreling with Trump, have continued to criticize his temperament and antagonistic trade policy. Both remain unpopular with party members in their home states. In Arizona, 29 percent of Republican voters approve of Flake’s job performance, while 57 percent disapprove, making him the country’s most unpopular Republican senator among members of his own party. In the Volunteer State, less than half (48 percent) of GOP voters approve of Corker and 36 disapprove. The ‘bear den’ and 2020 In 2014, Republicans took control of the chamber in dramatic fashion, flipping nine seats en route to a 10-seat majority. But with an unpopular president in the White House, several of those victorious and ambitious newcomers, sometimes referred to as the “bear den” by other Senate Republicans, are heading into a re-election cycle next year under a decidedly different political environment. To varying degrees, senators such as Alaska’s Dan Sullivan, Iowa’s Joni Ernst, Colorado’s Cory Gardner and North Carolina’s Thom Tillis have all seen their fortunes decline in the eyes of voters since the beginning of 2016, in Morning Consult’s first quarterly rankings. Sullivan (-36 points) and Gardner (-23 points) have been bruised more than Ernst (-10 points) and Tillis (-9 points), but they also started out with higher rankings. With their net approval hovering right around even in the past quarter, all four senators will have their work cut out for them if they are to stick around long enough to ascend the party ranks.

State Senator Approve Disapprove Don't know / No opinion Margin of Error Alabama Richard Shelby 48% 30% 22% 1% Alabama Doug Jones 45% 28% 26% 1% Alaska Lisa Murkowski 40% 43% 17% 5% Alaska Dan Sullivan 34% 38% 28% 5% Arizona John McCain 42% 46% 11% 1% Arizona Jeff Flake 30% 51% 19% 1% Arkansas Tom Cotton 48% 34% 18% 2% Arkansas John Boozman 46% 28% 26% 2% California Kamala Harris 45% 29% 26% 1% California Dianne Feinstein 45% 38% 18% 1% Colorado Michael Bennet 42% 30% 28% 1% Colorado Cory Gardner 38% 37% 25% 1% Connecticut Christopher Murphy 49% 35% 17% 2% Connecticut Richard Blumenthal 49% 38% 14% 2% Delaware Chris Coons 48% 31% 21% 3% Delaware Thomas Carper 51% 27% 22% 3% Florida Marco Rubio 42% 41% 17% 1% Florida Bill Nelson 44% 34% 23% 1% Georgia David Perdue 47% 27% 26% 1% Georgia Johnny Isakson 46% 27% 27% 1% Hawaii Mazie Hirono 56% 27% 17% 4% Hawaii Brian Schatz 53% 26% 21% 4% Idaho Michael Crapo 45% 34% 21% 3% Idaho James Risch 40% 32% 28% 3% Illinois Tammy Duckworth 46% 33% 22% 1% Illinois Dick Durbin 38% 40% 23% 1% Indiana Joe Donnelly 41% 34% 25% 1% Indiana Todd Young 42% 28% 30% 1% Iowa Joni Ernst 42% 38% 20% 2% Iowa Chuck Grassley 45% 39% 16% 2% Kansas Pat Roberts 37% 39% 24% 2% Kansas Jerry Moran 42% 32% 26% 2% Kentucky Mitch McConnell 30% 56% 15% 1% Kentucky Rand Paul 40% 42% 19% 1% Louisiana Bill Cassidy 48% 27% 25% 1% Louisiana John Kennedy 51% 25% 24% 1% Maine Susan Collins 56% 34% 11% 2% Maine Angus King 57% 29% 14% 2% Maryland Chris Van Hollen 46% 23% 32% 1% Maryland Benjamin Cardin 47% 26% 28% 1% Massachusetts Edward Markey 51% 23% 26% 1% Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren 53% 36% 11% 1% Michigan Debbie Stabenow 40% 38% 22% 1% Michigan Gary Peters 34% 29% 37% 1% Minnesota Tina Smith 37% 21% 41% 1% Minnesota Amy Klobuchar 60% 24% 16% 1% Mississippi Cindy Hyde-Smith* -- -- -- -- Mississippi Roger Wicker 47% 27% 25% 2% Missouri Claire McCaskill 40% 44% 17% 1% Missouri Roy Blunt 38% 39% 23% 1% Montana Jon Tester 50% 36% 15% 3% Montana Steve Daines 40% 35% 25% 3% Nebraska Benjamin Sasse 43% 34% 23% 2% Nebraska Deb Fischer 44% 36% 20% 2% Nevada Dean Heller 37% 40% 23% 2% Nevada Catherine Cortez Masto 39% 34% 27% 2% New Hampshire Maggie Hassan 54% 32% 14% 3% New Hampshire Jeanne Shaheen 53% 31% 16% 3% New Jersey Cory Booker 48% 31% 22% 1% New Jersey Robert Menendez 33% 41% 26% 1% New Mexico Tom Udall 46% 30% 23% 3% New Mexico Martin Heinrich 43% 32% 25% 3% New York Chuck Schumer 50% 34% 16% 1% New York Kirsten Gillibrand 47% 28% 25% 1% North Carolina Richard Burr 39% 33% 28% 1% North Carolina Thom Tillis 35% 35% 30% 1% North Dakota John Hoeven 57% 26% 18% 4% North Dakota Heidi Heitkamp 44% 44% 12% 4% Ohio Sherrod Brown 44% 29% 27% 1% Ohio Robert Portman 38% 33% 29% 1% Oklahoma James Lankford 40% 38% 23% 2% Oklahoma James Inhofe 38% 40% 22% 2% Oregon Ron Wyden 54% 26% 21% 2% Oregon Jeff Merkley 50% 26% 25% 2% Pennsylvania Robert Casey 42% 32% 26% 1% Pennsylvania Patrick Toomey 35% 39% 25% 1% Rhode Island Jack Reed 57% 23% 21% 3% Rhode Island Sheldon Whitehouse 51% 30% 19% 3% South Carolina Tim Scott 53% 22% 25% 1% South Carolina Lindsey Graham 41% 40% 19% 1% South Dakota John Thune 62% 25% 14% 3% South Dakota Mike Rounds 58% 26% 16% 3% Tennessee Bob Corker 41% 37% 22% 1% Tennessee Lamar Alexander 43% 34% 24% 1% Texas John Cornyn 42% 29% 30% 1% Texas Ted Cruz 48% 35% 17% 1% Utah Mike Lee 48% 29% 23% 2% Utah Orrin Hatch 44% 40% 15% 2% Vermont Patrick Leahy 56% 32% 12% 4% Vermont Bernard Sanders 63% 32% 5% 4% Virginia Mark Warner 50% 30% 21% 1% Virginia Tim Kaine 45% 35% 20% 1% Washington Maria Cantwell 50% 28% 23% 1% Washington Patty Murray 51% 30% 19% 1% West Virginia Joe Manchin 45% 43% 12% 1% West Virginia Shelley Capito 46% 34% 20% 1% Wisconsin Tammy Baldwin 44% 39% 18% 1% Wisconsin Ron Johnson 39% 39% 22% 1% Wyoming John Barrasso 52% 33% 15% 5% Wyoming Mike Enzi 52% 31% 16% 5%