Trump approval odds stay heavily below 43 percent

Name: Trump approval odds stay heavily below 43 percent
Creator: ClearMarket
Published: 2026-10-11T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Kalshi ladder

record: CMSIG2026101103 | category: momentum-repricing | target: CM-EVT-VWW9FTFB33 | published: 2026-10-11

4-bullet brief | narrative

Kalshi ladder puts only 7% odds on Trump's approval rating exceeding 43%, with every higher strike (44%-50%) at 6% or below.
Near-record-low consumer sentiment driven by Middle East cost-of-living pressures aligns with the market's heavily negative approval pricing.
Pew Research separately reported Trump approval at 30%, far below even the 43% threshold the market already prices as a long shot.
Companion Kalshi contract on Trump approval ending 2026 below threshold sits at 8%, suggesting the market sees little chance of a recovery by year-end.

atomic briefs | structured for retrieval

[01] news_event

significance

surfaced in the daily Exa news-cycle scan; mechanically matched to an active kalshi market

story: US consumer sentiment slumped further in early October as rising living costs tied to the Middle East conflict deepened household frustration ahead of midterms.exa_search → Reuters · as_of 2026-10-11T14:35:49+00:00
publisher: Reuters
published_at: 2026-10-11T00:00:00.000Z
source_url: https://www.nst.com.my/business/economy/2026/10/1552962/us-consumer-sentiment-near-record-low-frustration-over-economy

[02] pm_response

interp: Kalshi ladder; the implied range below 43% is consistent across all ladder strikes, making this one of the most lopsided approval distributions in the data set.llm_judge_cm_signal_v1

evaluation

News-cycle wires publish on coverage, not editorial selection — the day’s top stories matched to the prediction markets pricing them, so nothing is cherry-picked.

judge_engine: none — deterministic news-cycle scan
judge_verdict: auto_published
judge_confidence: n/a — no judge gate (deterministic publishing)
prompt_template: news_cycle_v1 github · auditable
match_method: entity_slug_match (mechanical)

citation graph

Every wire traces back to the ClearMarket event it is built on, and out to each venue’s own market page — so any figure here can be verified at its source.

internal

cm_event: /events/kxtrumpapprovalyear-26dec31/

external

venue_a: https://kalshi.com/markets/KXTRUMPAPPROVALYEAR-26DEC31-43

programmatic access · four surfaces, same payload

AI grounded search reads embedded JSON-LD in HTML. Developers query REST. Agentic AI clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor) call MCP tools. AI crawlers index via /llms.txt. Same canonical record at every surface.

HTML	browsers, AI grounded search, crawlers (contains embedded JSON-LD `@type: Dataset`)	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/trump-approval-above-43-kalshi-under-7-2026-10-11/`
JSON	REST API for developers	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/trump-approval-above-43-kalshi-under-7-2026-10-11.json`
MCP	agentic AI tool call (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue)	`clearmarket.get_signal("trump-approval-above-43-kalshi-under-7-2026-10-11")`
AGENT	AI crawler discovery index	`/llms.txt`

 PM data: platform APIs (hourly refresh). News context: retrieved with source citations. Editorial judgment: LLM judge with prompt template versioned per wire type. Per-claim provenance inline above; full per-field provenance map at the JSON endpoint under field_provenance.
  raw JSON record · same payload returned by REST endpoint
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  "$schema": "https://clearmarket.fyi/schema/signal/v1.json",
  "provenance_version": "0.2.0",
  "record_id": "CMSIG2026101103",
  "published_at": "2026-10-11T00:00:00.000Z",
  "detection": "news_cycle",
  "category_tag": "MOMENTUM_REPRICING",
  "secondary_tags": [],
  "pre_news_classification": "concurrent",
  "target_event_id": "CM-EVT-VWW9FTFB33",
  "target_event_slug": "kxtrumpapprovalyear-26dec31",
  "event_question": "Trump approval rating threshold",
  "bullets": [
    "Kalshi ladder puts only 7% odds on Trump's approval rating exceeding 43%, with every higher strike (44%-50%) at 6% or below.",
    "Near-record-low consumer sentiment driven by Middle East cost-of-living pressures aligns with the market's heavily negative approval pricing.",
    "Pew Research separately reported Trump approval at 30%, far below even the 43% threshold the market already prices as a long shot.",
    "Companion Kalshi contract on Trump approval ending 2026 below threshold sits at 8%, suggesting the market sees little chance of a recovery by year-end."
  ],
  "atomic_claims": [
    {
      "type": "news_event",
      "field_provenance": {
        "story": {
          "tier": "mediated",
          "method": "exa_search",
          "source": "Reuters",
          "source_url": "https://www.nst.com.my/business/economy/2026/10/1552962/us-consumer-sentiment-near-record-low-frustration-over-economy",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-10-11T14:35:49+00:00"
        }
      },
      "significance": {
        "threshold": 5,
        "threshold_unit": "rank",
        "passed": true,
        "reason": "surfaced in the daily Exa news-cycle scan; mechanically matched to an active kalshi market"
      },
      "story": "US consumer sentiment slumped further in early October as rising living costs tied to the Middle East conflict deepened household frustration ahead of midterms.",
      "publisher": "Reuters",
      "published_at": "2026-10-11T00:00:00.000Z",
      "source_url": "https://www.nst.com.my/business/economy/2026/10/1552962/us-consumer-sentiment-near-record-low-frustration-over-economy"
    },
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        }
      },
      "notes": "Kalshi ladder; the implied range below 43% is consistent across all ladder strikes, making this one of the most lopsided approval distributions in the data set."
    }
  ],
  "evaluation": {
    "judge_engine": "none — deterministic news-cycle scan",
    "judge_verdict": "auto_published",
    "judge_confidence": null,
    "prompt_template": "news_cycle_v1"
  },
  "citations": {
    "internal": {
      "cm_event": "/events/kxtrumpapprovalyear-26dec31/",
      "related": []
    },
    "external": {
      "venue_a": "https://kalshi.com/markets/KXTRUMPAPPROVALYEAR-26DEC31-43",
      "venue_b": null,
      "benchmark": null
    }
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Reuters: US consumer sentiment near record low as frustration over economy moun",
      "url": "https://www.nst.com.my/business/economy/2026/10/1552962/us-consumer-sentiment-near-record-low-frustration-over-economy",
      "published_at": "2026-10-11T00:00:00.000Z",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-10-11T14:35:49+00:00"
    }
  ],
  "field_provenance": {
    "pm_data": "kalshi_api",
    "news_context": "exa_search",
    "editorial_judgment": "cm_signal_llm_judge"
  }
}
 
   PROVENANCE PROTOCOL v0.2 · [direct] venue api · [mediated] grounded web fetch + source url · [derived] computed from listed inputs · [editorial] versioned llm judgment · full spec /schema/provenance/v1

record CMSIG2026101103 published 2026-10-11T00:00:00.000Z signature sha256-91ba77ac599… ← underlying event all signals →