Jon Ossoff may not clear the threshold to win Tuesday’s closely watched special election in Georgia, which is being held up by some as an early referendum on Donald Trump, but you don’t need a long-shot congressional race to tell you which way the wind is blowing. The first three months of the Trump presidency have been an unqualified disaster by almost any measure, with the administration’s legislative agenda derailed by West Wing infighting, internecine warfare on Capitol Hill, a constant swirl of Russian intrigues, easily avoidable gaffes, own goals, and ethics scandals. While the media temporarily stopped hammering the president to praise his missile strike in Syria and saber-rattling toward North Korea, the totality of Trump’s failure continues to weigh on his popularity. Since the inauguration, Trump’s net approval rating has slid from about zero, with an equal number of people approving and disapproving of how he is doing his job as president, to a low of -24 at the end of March, to about -15 over the weekend.

Now, a new survey shows how the slow-moving, multi-faceted Trump fiasco is weighing on the rest of the Republican Party. According to a Pew Research Center poll released Monday, the G.O.P.’s approval rating has dropped 7 points since the inauguration, from 47 percent in January to just 40 percent today. 68 percent said they believe the G.O.P. is “mostly divided.” (The opposition party, it should be said, did not do much better: the percentage of Americans approving of the Democratic Party, now in full obstructionist mode, dropped from 51 percent to 45 percent.)

The numbers look even worse for Republicans at a more granular level. According to Pew, Americans are increasingly trusting Democrats to better handle several issues where Republicans traditionally have an edge, such as foreign policy (49 percent to 36 percent), government spending (48 percent to 40 percent), and immigration (50 percent to 39 percent). And while the G.O.P. has never had a lead on health care—with the exception of the period around Obamacare’s implementation—recent polling highlights just how badly the collapse of Ryancare/Trumpcare/Whatevercare has hurt the party. Only 35 percent of respondents said they preferred how Republicans are handling health care, compared to 54 percent who support Democrats on the issue. That’s the biggest gap in polling in years.

If there’s any silver lining for Trump, it’s that many members of his party are even less popular than he is. Paul Ryan, the House Speaker loathed by both liberals and hard-core Trump supporters, has an anemic approval rating of just 29 percent approval, with 54 percent disapproving. At the same time, the Pew data suggests how Republicans could recover some of their popularity—by turning on the president. More than half of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters said that their party’s lawmakers “are under no obligation to support Trump’s policies if they disagree with him,” while only 43 percent said they were beholden to do so. If the Trump brand continues to be divisive, legislators on both the moderate and conservative side of the G.O.P. spectrum may see dividends to breaking with the president on critical issues. As the 2018 midterms approach, it may be the one way for lawmakers in vulnerable districts to extricate themselves from whatever latest scandal is brewing in Washington.